BACKGROUND Obstetric fistula although virtually eliminated in high income countries, still remains a prevalent and debilitating condition in many parts of the developing world. It occurs in areas where access to care at childbirth is limited, or of poor quality and where few hospitals offer the necessary corrective surgery. METHODS This was a prospective observational study where all women wh...

A project to enable health care professionals (GPs, practice nurses and diabetes nurse specialists) to access, via the Internet, confidential patient data held on a secondary care (hospital) diabetes information system, has been implemented. We describe the application that we chose to distribute (a diabetes register); the security mechanisms we used to protect the data (a public key infrastruc...

Documents are very important in a company or agency because they store various information, both general and confidential. At the West Jakarta Sub-Department of Highways there problems document management, increasing number documents that received creates buildup storage. Document storage is also carried out using special warehouse as place to documents. This problem can be solved by creating a...

A discrete memoryless generalized multiple access channel (GMAC) with confidential messages is studied, where two users attempt to transmit common information to a destination and each user also has private (confidential) information intended for the destination. This channel generalizes the multiple access channel (MAC) in that the two users also receive channel outputs, and hence may obtain t...

In the application of telemedicine, ECG signal without any patient details is sent to the Doctor end. Consequently, confusion is arisen between signal and patient’s identity. To avoid this confusion, it is necessary to combine ECG signals with patient confidential information when sent. In this paper, the Slantlet Transform based technique has been introduced to protect patient confidential dat...

Using a difference-in-differences approach and relying on confidential supervisory data an unique proprietary set available at the European Central Bank related to 2016 EU-wide stress test, this paper presents novel empirical evidence that scrutiny associated testing has disciplining effect bank risk. We find banks participated in test subsequently reduced their credit risk relative were not pa...

BACKGROUND Confidential unit exclusion remains a controversial strategy to reduce the residual risk of transfusion-transmitted infections. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to analyze confidential unit exclusion from its development in a large institution in light of confidential donation confirmation. METHODS Data of individuals who donated from October 1, 2008 to December 31, 2009 were analyzed ...

The Family Planning Program provides affordable, confidential family planning and related preventive health services in accordance with nationally recognized standards where evidence exists that these services should lead to improvement in the overall health of individuals, with a priority for services to low-income individuals. The program expands access to a broad range of acceptable and effe...