Knowledge of healthcare professionals about breastfeeding and supplementary feeding

Knowledge of healthcare professionals about rights of patient’s images

Objective To assess knowledge of healthcare professionals about capture and reproduction of images of patients in a hospital setting. Methods A cross-sectional and observational study among 360 healthcare professionals (nursing staff, physical therapists, and physicians), working at a teaching hospital in the city of São Paulo (SP). A questionnaire with sociodemographic information was distribu...

Knowledge of healthcare professionals about medication errors in hospitals

CONTEXT Medication errors are the most common types of medical errors in hospitals and leading cause of morbidity and mortality among patients. AIMS The aim of the present study was to assess the knowledge of healthcare professionals about medication errors in hospitals. SETTINGS AND DESIGN A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to randomly selected healthcare professionals in ei...

Breastfeeding - Healthcare Professionals Need to Do More.

Future healthcare professionals' knowledge about the Argentinean abortion law.

OBJECTIVE We assessed healthcare students' knowledge and opinions on Argentinian abortion law and identified differences between first- and final-year healthcare students. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, self-administered anonymous questionnaires were administered to 760 first- and 695 final-year students from different fields of study (medicine, midwifery, nursing, radiology, nutritio...

Assessment of Effects of Pre- and Post-training Programme for Healthcare Professionals about Breastfeeding

This retrospective study assessed the effects of pre- and post-training programme for healthcare professionals about breastfeeding. The study included 3,114 mothers who had children aged 1-72 month(s). Their knowledge and behaviours relating to breastfeeding were evaluated. The mothers were randomly divided into two groups: the 'before' group included 2,000 women who were not informed about bre...