eye health needs of young children, focusing on those aged less than six years old. All of you who have tried to examine or measure the visual acuity of young children will know that this can be very challenging and difficult; it can be very tempting to give up and send the child home, particularly if the clinic is busy. We hope that, after reading this edition of the journal and putting into p...

Patient safety is something that needs to be prioritized in health services. The goal of this study was examine nurses' workload and competence on patient incidents using the six goals as intervening variables. a cross-sectional at private hospital Tangerang February 2022. research subjects were all functional nurses hospital. There an influence between workload, nurse competence, implementatio...

BACKGROUND Mobile phone-based remote patient monitoring systems have been proposed for heart failure management because they are relatively inexpensive and enable patients to be monitored anywhere. However, little is known about whether patients and their health care providers are willing and able to use this technology. OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to assess the attitudes of hear...

BACKGROUND Accurate forecasting of emergency department (ED) attendances can be a valuable tool for micro and macro level planning. METHODS Data for analysis was the counts of daily patient attendances at the ED of an acute care regional general hospital from July 2005 to Mar 2008. Patients were stratified into three acuity categories; i.e. P1, P2 and P3, with P1 being the most acute and P3 b...

purpose: to report a relatively rare case of familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (fevr). patient and findings: a 13-year-old boy referred with decreased visual acuity of both eyes, specially right eye from 6 years ago. he had several ophthalmologist and optometrist visits and spectacle prescription without any improvement of vision. best corrected visual acuity (bcva) was 25 cm of count finger...

BACKGROUND Health care systems in Finland, Norway and Sweden share many similarities, e.g. full-coverage and tax-financed, with predominately public sector hospitals. Despite similarities, there are differences in the working situations for RNs within these Nordic countries. The aim of this study was to analyze associations between RNs' patient workload and level of involvement in direct patien...

INTRODUCTION Many prior studies have compared the acuity of Emergency Department (ED) patients who have Left Without Being Seen (LWBS) against non-LWBS patients. A weakness in these studies is that patients may walk out prior to the assignment of a triage score, biasing comparisons. We report an operational change whereby acuity was assessed immediately upon patient arrival. We hypothesized mor...

Background: The Pelger-Huet anomaly dominantly is a rare and benign inherited defect of terminal neutrophil differentiation. Although neutrophil migration may be minimally impaired, granulocytes function is otherwise normal association abnormalities such as ocular, musculoskeletal are reported very rare. Case: An eight year-old boy with good consciousness but severe muscular atrophia and diffic...

background: the employees of welfare centers, due to the special conditions of their work, may be exposed to excessive occupational stress and workload . thus, the aim of this study was to determine the effect of workload and occupational stress on the general health of female employees of public welfare centers.   materials and methods: this was a correlational research on 63 female employees ...