Aim: To determine the following among the final year students of the Lahore Medical & Dental College, Lahore: their knowledge & awareness regarding biomedical (BM) waste management policy and practices, their attitude towards biomedical waste management, and their awareness regarding needle-stick injury and its prevalence among different categories of health care providers. Methods: A cross-sec...

BACKGROUND The principles of informed consent, confidentiality and privacy are often neglected during patient care in developing countries. We assessed the degree to which doctors in Lahore adhere to these principles during outpatient consultations. MATERIAL & METHOD The study was conducted at medical out-patient departments (OPDs) of two tertiary care hospitals (one public and one private ho...

Objective To determine neonatal congenital hypothyroidism among neonates born in a tertiary care hospital of Lahore Pakistan. Methods This cross-sectional study was carried out at Pathology Department of Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore in collaboration with Pediatrics and Gynecology & Obstetrics Department, Jinnah Hospital, Lahore Pakistan. A total of 770 babies were included in this stu...

OBJECTIVE To determine the reference range of zinc in adult population (age range 20 to 29 years) of Lahore. METHODS It was a descriptive cross sectional study which was carried out from Jan- August 2012 in Chemical Pathology Department of University of Health Sciences, Lahore. Serum zinc concentration was measured by flame atomic absorption spectrometry in randomly selected 450 healthy adult...

The study investigates the impact of brand equity on brand loyalty with the mediation of customer satisfaction in restaurant sector of Lahore, Pakistan. The study uses seven dimensions of brand equity, which include physical quality, staff behavior, ideal selfcongruence, brand identification, life style-congruence, trust and environment. Questionnaire has been used to collect the data from the ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the knowledge of HIV/AIDS among gypsies in Lahore and their preventive practices. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Four gypsy settlements around Multan Road, Lahore were surveyed from July to August 2009. METHODOLOGY Two hundred and thirteen randomly selected gypsies, aged 15-50 years, were interviewed using a pretested questionnaire ba...

Sahar, Madiha M.S.E.C.E., Purdue University, May 2014. A Framework for Synthesizing Agent-Based Heterogeneous Population Model for Epidemic Simulation. Major Professor: Arif Ghafoor. Social interactions play an important role in spread of a disease. In this thesis we propose a probabilistic approach to synthesize an agent-based heterogeneous population interaction model to study the spatio-temp...

Prevalence of Echinococcus granulosus genotype G1 was investigated in 55 cattle, 129 buffaloes, 10 sheep and 10 goat samples by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). These 204 samples were collected from 64 liver and 140 lungs of slaughtered animals from three districts Okara (n= 29), Jhang (n = 43) and Lahore (n= 132). E. granulosus G1 genomic DNA was used for specific amplification of a 254-bp fra...

The previous researches contributed in this dimension by working on the purchase intention, service quality, and brand equity and brand loyalty. In this research study relationship among perceived service quality (PSQ), customer satisfaction (CS) and purchase intention (PI) as a mediating role is discussed and shown affect of purchase intention on the customer satisfaction. Took service sector ...