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Unit Costing of Health Extension Worker Activities in Ethiopia: A Model for Managers at the District and Health Facility Level

Background Over the last decade, Ethiopia has made impressive national improvements in health outcomes, including reductions in maternal, neonatal, infant, and child mortality attributed in large part to their Health Extension Program (HEP). As this program continues to evolve and improve, understanding the unit cost of health extension worker (HEW) services is fundamental to planning for futur...

Nosocomial infections in the pediatric intensive care unit.

Nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections are a major complication of serious illnesses. Severely ill patients have a greater risk of acquiring nosocomial infections, so this problem is greatest in intensive care units. Studies have demonstrated that nosocomial infections are largely preventable. Adherence to recommended techniques for patient care will have the greatest benefit in the intensiv...

Family Presence During Resuscitation: Attitudes of Yale-New Haven Hospital Staff

INTRODUCTION A novel paradigm of patient- and family-centered care has been promoted and adopted by many parties in the United States. This new attitude emphasizes the role of the family in the care of the patient. One topic that should be affected by the new paradigm is family presence during resuscitation, which continues to be a highly debatable topic with no widespread implementation. The o...

Connecticut Health Services Research Series. No. 1: Patient Care Assessment in Extended Health Care Facilities

tion of the deletorious effect of anesthetic agents on pulmonary bactericidal activity. One man's wheat is another manis clhaff in these matters but I estimate that about half of the 102 papers in this book are of interest and value to me in the practice of infectious diseases. This is clearly not a book that would interest the student or general interinist, but it is of considerable value to t...

Trends in the law: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.