The Bexley Hospital population nine years on

Maternal mortality: A hospital based study in thirty nine years”

Textiloma nine years after nephrectomy.

INTRODUCTION Foreign bodies after surgical procedures are not very reported in the literature. It is estimated to have 1 case for 1,300 operations, although in practice the frequency might probably be higher. CASE REPORT A woman, 38 years, submitted to left nephroureterectomy for renal transplantation in 1993. During 9 years, she was asymptomatic, and then she presented intermittent left flan...

Importance of work environments on hospital outcomes in nine countries.

PURPOSE To determine the effect of hospital work environments on hospital outcomes across multiple countries. DESIGN Primary survey data using a common instrument were collected from separate cross sections of 98 116 bedside care nurses practising in 1406 hospitals in 9 countries between 1999 and 2009. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Nurse burnout and job dissatisfaction, patient readiness for hospit...

Rifampicin for lepromatous leprosy: nine years' experience.

Over 100 patients with lepromatous leprosy were treated with rifampicin in a series of pilot, uncontrolled, and controlled trials in 1968-77. The rapid bactericidal effect of rifampicin on Mycobacterium leprae was confirmed. Clinical improvement became apparent sometimes as early as 14 days after the start of treatment. Nevertheless, a few persisting viable M leprae were detected as long as fiv...

Thirty nine years of stratified trees

The stratified tree, also called van Emde Boas tree, is a data structure implementing the full repertoire of instructions manipulating a single subset A of a finite ordered Universe U = [0...u − 1]. Instructions include member, insert, delete, min, max, predecessor and successor, as well as composite ones like extract −min. The processing time per instruction is O(loglog(u)). Hence it improves ...