1 Division of Endocrinology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2 Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 3 Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC), St. Michael's Hospital University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 4 Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Ministry of Health Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana, 5 Guyana Diabetes and Foot Car...

Contributors: 1Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vyas Dental College & Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India; 2Post-graduate Student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vyas Dental College & Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Correspondence: Dr. Rushabh J. Dagli, Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vyas Dental College & Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Email: r.j...

PROBLEM Until 2005, the quality of rapid diagnostic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing was not monitored and no regular technical support was provided to hospital laboratories in Myanmar. APPROACH The national reference laboratory introduced a national external quality assessment scheme. The scheme involved (i) training laboratory technicians in HIV testing and in the requirements of ...

The Second World War brought much grief to the world. Roermond was at the forefront of the war for a period of five months. Before the war, in this part of The Netherlands, physicians were more attuned to scientific development taking place in Germany than in the United Kingdom. It wasn't until after the war that anesthesiology developed as a separate specialty. The impression that the hospital...

OBJECTIVES To determine clinicians' (doctors', nurses', and allied health professionals') "actual" and "reported" use of a point-of-care online information retrieval system; and to make an assessment of the extent to which use is related to direct patient care by testing two hypotheses: hypothesis 1: clinicians use online evidence primarily to support clinical decisions relating to direct patie...

AIMS To identify substantive findings of potential clinical and managerial significance from a regional feasibility study of adverse events (AEs). METHODS A standardised protocol using structured implicit review was applied to 142 AEs generated in an audit study of three public hospitals in the Auckland region for admissions in 1995. Areas of potential significance addressed were: timing, loc...

Standard accounts of congressional behavior treat legislators as individuals whose actions are the result of the interaction of member-specific characteristics and institutional factors. However, members of Congress do not act alone but instead depend on professional staffers who are intimately involved in every aspect of the institution. In this paper, we use a novel dataset of comprehensive l...

This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in not-for-profit (NFP) or private hospitals, even controlling for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP hospitals serve as a benchmark, being very similar to public hospitals, but without political influence on ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the spatial intensity of urban violence events using wavelet-based methods and emergency room data. METHODS Information on victims attended at the emergency room of a public hospital in the city of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil, from January 1, 2002 to January 11, 2003 were obtained from hospital records. The spatial distribution of 3,540 events was recorded and a unifo...