Nursing shift report on the medical-surgical units of a large teaching hospital was modified from a recorded report to a blend of both recorded and bedside components. Comparisons between baseline and postimplementation data indicated increased patient satisfaction and nurse perception of accountability and patient involvement but reduced nurse perceptions of efficiency and effectiveness of rep...

OBJECTIVES To survey family planning clinic (FPC) patients who may be involved in the Diploma of the Faculty of Family Planning (DFFP) practical training; to obtain their views about the process of giving consent to their involvement; and to compare their views with current practice. METHODS Questionnaire surveys of 103 female FPC patients and 40 DFFP instructing doctors. Patients were recrui...

BACKGROUND Indigenous peoples in Canada have higher prevalence of modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD). The relative importance of these risk factors on AD risk management is poorly understood. METHODS Relative risks from literature and prevalence of risk factors from Statistics Canada or the First Nations Regional Health Survey were used to determine projected population attr...

The purpose of this systematic literature review on ‘indigenous peoples and accounting’ is to identify major themes derive insights guide future research policy agendas. We also investigate whether accounting has been used by the indigenous for emancipation. Seventy-one peer-reviewed journal articles are categorised into three clusters (imperialism, profession need emancipation) analysed. This ...

The genetic history of a group of populations is usually analyzed by reconstructing a tree of their origins. Reliability of the reconstruction depends on the validity of the hypothesis that genetic differentiation of the populations is mostly due to population fissions followed by independent evolution. If necessary, adjustment for major population admixtures can be made. Dating the fissions re...

Santa Marta and Vigario Geral are the two favelas (squatter settlements) of the roughly 600 favelas in Rio de Janeiro. While not being the poorest of the poor, the favelas are still suffering from precarious services and lack of infrastructure. Waste is one of the visual measures of existing inequalities in Rio de Janeiro. Approximately 20% of the favela dwellers suffer from precarious and subs...

Ruobing Qu,* Jingde Tao,* Yongmeng Wang, Youlang Zhou, Geping Wu, Ying Xiao, Chuang-Ying Hu, Xinghong Jiang, and Guang-Yin Xu Institute of Neuroscience, Laboratory for Translational Pain Medicine, Department of Neurobiology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Peoples Republic of China; Devision of Gastroenterology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Soochow University, Suzhou, Peoples Republic of China; ...