BACKGROUND Considering governmental scrutiny and financial constraints in medicine, the need for improved performance, which can provide acceptable care for medical consumers, leads to the conduct of new managerial methods to improve effectiveness. AIMS This study aimed to compare performance indicators of obstetrics and gynaecology teaching hospitals in Tabriz. METHOD A longitudinal, retro...

s contain over 100 comorbid diseases and severity measures that collectively summarize all the major associated diseases and functional status impairments. Moreover, the abstracts include AMI severity measures following the CCP’s expert advisory panel, which influence the appropriateness of major AMI treatment decisions and health outcomes (Noguchi et al., 2008). Table 1 presents the frequency ...

Our research goal is to monitor the water pollution and aquatic plants in the coastal lagoon environments using satellite data. This time, our past activities concerning some satellite study project and the preliminary result of ALOS/AVNIR-2 analysis in coastal lagoon such as Lakes Shinji and Nakaumi are introduced.

Recently land-use change has been the main concern for worldwide environment change and is being used by city and regional planners to design sustainable cities. Nakuru in the central Rift Valley of Kenya has undergone rapid urban growth in last decade. This paper focused on urban growth using multi-sensor satellite imageries and explored the potential benefits of combining data from optical se...

Chronic disease management programs (CDMPs) were introduced in Australia to reduce unnecessary health care utilization by the growing population with chronic conditions; however, evidence of effectiveness is needed. This study evaluated the impact of a comprehensive CDMP, My Health Guardian (MHG), on rate of hospital admissions, readmissions, and average length of hospital stay (ALOS) for insur...

The accurate detection of land subsidence rates in urban areas is important to identify damage-prone areas and provide decision-makers with useful information. Meanwhile, no precise measurements of land subsidence have been undertaken within the coastal Port-Said City in Egypt to evaluate its hazard in relationship to sea-level rise. In order to address this shortcoming, this work introduces an...

OBJECTIVES NHS North West aimed to fully implement the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) 1 year ahead of the August 2009 national deadline. Significant debate has taken place concerning the implications of the EWTD for patient safety. This study aims to directly address this issue by comparing parameters of patient safety in NHS North West to those nationally prior to EWTD implementation, ...

Digital surface model (DSM) has been widely available for mapping and was also sometimes used vegetation height. The authors conducted a preliminary study to evaluate the potential use of DSMs derived from ASTER, ALOS, SRTM estimating cover density in mountainous area. This NDVI SAVI indices, addition forest (FCD) as references evaluation. A DSM-based volume index (Volindex) concept is introduc...