!NFECTION IN HOSPITAL A CODE OF PRACTICE. Edited by G. L. Gibson. (Pp. x+101. £1.25). Edinburgh and London: Churchill Livingstone, 1971. This excellent little book should be read by all doctors, nurses and administrators who work in hospital and I am only sorry that it is presented in rather too lavish a format with stiff covers so that it is both too large and too heavy to carry in the pocket....

PURPOSE The current state of hospital pharmacy practice around the globe and key issues facing international hospital pharmacy practice were studied. METHODS This survey assessed multiple aspects of hospital pharmacy practice within each of the Member States recognized by the United Nations. An official respondent from each nation was identified by a structured nomination process. The survey ...

OBJECTIVE To review the published English literature regarding international hospital pharmacy practice. DATA SOURCES A computer search of all English-language articles in MEDLINE (1966-June 2004) and other Internet sources and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (1971-June 2004). STUDY SELECTION AND DATA EXTRACTION All studies that discussed hospital pharmacy or clinical hospital pharma...

Results from a national comparative audit of bedside transfusion practice show that patients in the UK are at risk of misidentification and poor monitoring when undergoing a blood transfusion. A commonly identified reason for poor compliance with guidelines from the British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH et al 1999) is a lack of awareness of good transfusion practice (National Blo...

Department of Nephrology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australian Practice Nurses Association, The Family Practice, Bundaberg, Queensland, Department of Renal Medicine, Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Hospital, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, The St George Hospital, Department of General Practice, Sydney Medical School – Westmead, University of Sydney, Sydney...

OBJECTIVES To quantify the extent of the variation in hospital admission rates between general practices, and to investigate whether this variation can be explained by factors relating to the patient, the hospital, and the general practice. DESIGN Cross sectional analysis of routine data. SETTING Merton, Sutton, and Wandsworth Health Authority, which includes areas of inner and outer London...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of a routine incident reporting system in identifying patient safety incidents. DESIGN Two stage retrospective review of patients' case notes and analysis of data submitted to the routine incident reporting system on the same patients. SETTING A large NHS hospital in England. POPULATION 1006 hospital admissions between January and May 2004: surgery (n...

Methods As part of a large community study, subjects older than 2 years reporting at least two symptoms of influenzalike-illness were recruited from 30 outpatient clinics in Hong Kong prospectively from February 2007 to July 2010 around the influenza seasons [1,2]. Each subject provided a pooled pair of nose and throat swabs to be tested by the QuickVue rapid test on site. Overall test positive...

This Essay describes the phenomenon of cultural bias in judicial decision making, and examines the use of testimonies and opinions of cultural experts as a way to diminish this bias. The Essay compares the legal regimes of the United States and Israel. Whereas in the United States, the general practice of using cultural experts in courts is well developed and regulated, the Israeli legal proced...

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's internal medicine residency program was admitted to the new Education Innovation Project accreditation pathway of the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education to begin in July 2006. The authors restructured the inpatient medical service to create clinical microsystems in which residents practice throughout residency. Program leadership then mand...