Characteristics of Prophage Patterns and Virulence Gene Profiles among Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Patients with Diabetic Foot Infections in a Referral Hospital Tehran, Iran

• BACKGROUND Although nurses are ideally situated to facilitate communication about prognosis and hospice referral among patients, patients’ family members, and hospital staff, nurses do not always assume this task. • OBJECTIVE To identify common obstacles to nurses’ discussions of prognosis and referral to hospice care with terminally ill patients in the hospital setting. • METHODS Data from a...

Waste generated by hospital is categorized as waste containing hazardous materials (B3) which can pose a hazard to the environtment, public health and other living things if disposed of directly into environtment. The purpose this study was describe management B3 solid medical at Regional General Hospital West Sulawesi Province Covid-19 Patient Referral Hospital. This research descriptive with ...

BACKGROUND Visiting-specialist clinics (specialist outreach) have the potential to overcome some of the substantial access barriers faced by disadvantaged rural, remote, and Indigenous communities, but the effectiveness of outreach clinics has not been assessed outside urban and non-disadvantaged settings. We aimed to assess the effects of outreach clinics on access, referral patterns, and care...

BACKGROUND The regional variability of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) rates may be explained by variations in the medical treatment of stable coronary artery disease. We sought to determine whether greater regional use of antianginal medications in PCI patients is associated with lower regional rates of PCI. METHODS AND RESULTS Using CathPCI Registry and Dartmouth Atlas data, we exa...

Objective The aim of this study was to access the clinico-psycho-social profile of patients brought under consultation-liaison (CL) psychiatry care in a large tertiary care referral hospital. Materials and Methods This study included all patients who were referred for CL psychiatry from among the inpatients in the hospital and the emergency department (during off working hours of the hospital...

Since 1988, healthcare has been considered a citizen's right in Brazil. The Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), has undergone development and expansion to ensure universal health coverage for the Brazilian public, the world's fifth largest population. The coordination of effective communications between primary care physicians, specialists and patients is a significant challenge, particularly the ref...

OBJECTIVE To describe the cause-specific morbidity and mortality, and referral patterns of all neonates admitted to a tertiary referral hospital in the northern provinces of Vietnam. DESIGN A prospective hospital based observational study. SETTING The Neonatal Department, National Hospital of Pediatrics, Hanoi, Vietnam. PATIENTS All admissions to the Neonatal Department over a 12 month pe...

To assess the successes of the leprosy elimination strategy before (2000 to 2005) and after (2006 to 2010) eradication period in referral hospital of Tamilnadu District. Retrospective cross-sectional study of all registered new cases of leprosy carried out from records over a ten year period from referral Sacred heart leprosy hospital, Kummbakkonam, Tamil Nadu. During the survey, total number o...

Psychiatry liaison services provide the interface between mental and physical health in the acute medical hospital, however there can be logistical and operational difficulties to overcome. This quality improvement project aimed to improve the timeliness of referrals to a liaison service from an acute hospital through simple interventions of a newsletter, email to staff, and a pilot including a...