BACKGROUND Implementing good-quality health and social care requires empowerment of staff members within organizations delivering care. Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) is an intervention using positive video feedback to empower staff through reflection on practice. This qualitative study explored the implementation of VIG within an autism care organization in England, from the perspective of s...

Concomitant use of several drugs by ICU( Intensive Care Unit) patients is often unavoidable. In these patients, pharmacokinetic drug interactions are very likely. The current study was designed to evaluate these interactions in patients hospitalized in an ICU of a teaching hospital in Tehran, Iran. A questionnaire was designed and used to collect study data. The study was done in the ICU of a t...

Concomitant use of several drugs by ICU( Intensive Care Unit) patients is often unavoidable. In these patients, pharmacokinetic drug interactions are very likely. The current study was designed to evaluate these interactions in patients hospitalized in an ICU of a teaching hospital in Tehran, Iran. A questionnaire was designed and used to collect study data. The study was done in the ICU of a t...

The purpose of this article is to revise the main types food and orally administered drugs. Food-drug interactions are biunivocal, meaning that influences pharmacokinetics certain pharmacodynamic actions drugs themselves both directly (by interactions) indirectly modifying behaviour) influence ingested quantity profile. medical term for interaction describes situations where accelerates, delays...

One of the most effective ways in which regulatory agencies communicate with sponsors and guide drug development is through the issuance of guidances or guidelines. These can be issued domestically in a given region such as the United States by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or internationally through the International Conference on Harmonization. Currently, there are over 400 final or ...

The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner Committee was convened to investigate into effects of these controls on the diets of working c...

Food consumption patterns are undergoing substantial change in many countries as economic development proceeds. The trend is a move away from traditional cereals towards higher-value and higher-protein foods. Explaining such changes only in terms of traditional economic variables can lead to biased estimates of income e¡ects and perhaps biased projections of food demand. Household survey data f...

In developed countries, the demand for organic products continues to substantially increase each year. However, little information is available regarding the level of consumption of organic food and its relative share of the whole diet. Our aim was to provide, using individual consumption data, a detailed description of organic food consumption among French adults. Conventional and organic inta...

The supply and maintenance of safe and wholesome foods to a population is a complex system involving multiple stakeholders. An organizational scheme for representing this complexity is a food chain. A food chain also provides the appropriate structure for the management and communication of food risks. A natural extension of this framework is the concept of a food safety objective. The mathemat...