A prevalence study was conducted, measuring drug cost and prescribing patterns of clinicians treating cardiovascular patients in UKM Hospital (HUKM). One Hundred and thirty-five patients' case-notes were selected from the Case-Mix database of HUKM. The average and median number of drugs prescribed per patient was 7.56 (+/- 3.37) and 7.0 (+/- 3) respectively. Generic drug prescription rate was s...

Introduction: Improving quality of care is one of the challenges in health care services. In this regard, human factor is one of the important factors that affect the quality of care. The aim of this study was to assess nurses’ clinical performance in Critical Care Units (CCU) in teaching and non-teaching hospitals non-teaching hospitals of Qazvin city based on the Synergy Model. Materials & Me...

Floating-point matrix multiplication is arguably the most important kernel routine in many scientific applications. Therefore, its efficient implementation is crucial for the overall performance of any computer system targeting scientific computations. In this paper, we propose a holistic solution to accelerate matrix multiplication on reconfigurable hardware using the MOLEN polymorphic process...

Clients of female sex workers (FSWs) possess a high potential of transmitting HIV and other sexually transmitted infections from high risk FSWs to the general population. Promotion of safer sex practices among the clients is essential to limit the spread of HIV/AIDS epidemic. The aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence of consistent condom use (CCU) among clients of FSWs and to assess t...

Objective: To determine the frequency of raised serum GGT levels in patients with acute coronary syndrome and their in-hospital outcome. Study design: Case descriptive. Subjects and methods: 120 patients hospitalized in CCU of Services Hospital, Lahore with the diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) were included in study. All had baseline serum GGT level determined and outcome in terms of ...

Objetivo: Compreender a importância da Assistência de Enfermagem na prevenção do Câncer Colo Útero (CCU), pontuando as razões informadas pelas mulheres para não realização exame preventivo. Métodos: Trata-se uma revisão integrativa, nas bases dados da: Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS), Acervo+ Index Base e também foi utilizado o mecanismo busca Go...

Las altas temperaturas, la fuerte radiación, baja cobertura vegetal, impermeabilización del suelo, entre otros factores urbano-climáticos, generan un gran disconfort y molestias a población urbana. Aunque algunas de las características ciudades están reguladas por normativas ambientales (como calidad aire el ruido) urbanísticas los usos suelo o alturas edificación), no existe marco conceptual p...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this research was to determine the relation between negative or positive qualitative troponin I test and the short term prognosis of patients presenting to emergency department with chest pain or angina equivalent symptoms. METHODS we assessed the qualitative rapid troponin I in patients with chest pain or angina equivalent symptoms after at least 4 hours and then we...

The health care provided to cardiovascular emergencies has undergone several changes in past decades, motivating the re-structuration of health care services. Currently, that subject is being widely discussed by the American Heart Association1 and worldwide. Consequently, discussing that within the context of our reality is important. Of the innumerous changes, those referring to acute coronary...