Standards for unscheduled care published

Newborn's primary care standards do graduate midwifery

Introduction: First minutes of a baby's life are very important stage of life is filled with danger, this study aimed to assess the infant's primary care standards do graduate midwifes. Methods: Present research is a cross-sectional study. Statistical society of this research is a group of recent graduated midwifes including 50 persons, have graduated in the recent three years and are providin...

Setting Standards for Glaucoma Care

Clinical Excellence (NICE) published guidelines on the diagnosis and management of open-angle glaucoma in 2009 (www.nice.org.uk/CG85). These are intended to set standards for practice in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) As these guidelines are the only strictly evidence-based glaucoma guidelines available, however, they are a resource that can be accessed and used globally. To produce evi...

Standards of care for PONV.

Standard care, standards for care, or standard of care?

WHEN does a physician’s medical care qualify as “standard?” Is the standard set by scientific evidence, by what physicians typically do, by what physicians regard as minimally acceptable in the same or similar circumstance, or by what panels of experts believe to be best practice? In this issue of the journal, Benzon et al. present evidence that calls into question a recommendation contained in...

Appropriateness of unscheduled hospital admissions from care homes.

Unscheduled hospital admissions from care homes are common and potentially avoidable but little guidance is available as to what constitutes an appropriate hospital admission. We surveyed healthcare professionals' opinions on a range of common scenarios affecting care-home residents. We developed seven clinical vignettes and an accompanying questionnaire. We used purposive sampling to obtain op...