Background Cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis is a small vessel that typically associated with hepatitis C viral infection (80%), however, it can also be lymphoproliferative disorders and autoimmune diseases. [1] It presents rheumatological, cutaneous or renal manifestations, in addition to peripheral neuropathy. significant morbidity mortality if left undiagnosed. The detection of cryoglobulins seru...

The European working time directive (EWTD) was instituted in Children's University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin, October 2010. This study aimed to assess the impact of the EWTD on teaching and training in hospital paediatric medicine. Research tools included questionnaire and focus group. Twenty out of a potential 52 non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) completed the questionnaire. Sixty ...

The objective of this study was to compare the quality of maternity care in 2 types of government-run hospital in the town of Khorram Abad, Islamic Republic of Iran in 2009: a university-linked teaching and a social security organization non-teaching hospital. A sample of 264 women hospitalized in the delivery and postpartum wards was selected. Data collection was done using interviews with mot...

Infectious Disease Unit/ Medicine, San Fernando Teaching Hospital, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago Department of Medicine, San Fernando Teaching Hospital, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago Department of Medicine, Surgi-Med Clinic, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago Department of Urology, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Department of Urology, Gulf View Medical C...

Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, UK Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK North West Lung Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK Sheffield Thoracic Institute, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK Division of Therapeutics and Mo...

There is one disturbing similarity between the two very dissimilar hospitals. In both cases industrial relations have been complicated and embittered by a degree of interunion competition that seems to have left management virtually powerless to effect improvements in the departments and sections concerned. _011|Rainhill is a 1550-bedded psychiatric hospital in the St Helens and Knowsley AHA, m...

Affiliations: 1 Pendleton Family Practice, P.O. Box 38049, Lusaka, Zambia. 2 Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University Teaching Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia. 3 Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario de la Princesa (IISP), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. 4 Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, CIBERES, Universitat de Barcelona, Bar...

by M. S. Odimayo, W. I. Olanrewaju, S. A. Omilabu, and Boaz Adegboro Department of Microbiology & Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria Olanrewaju Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria Department of Microbiology & Parasitology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nig...

introduction: electronic medical records has of practically paved the way to centralize information without being worried about physical space. although iran, from technological point of view, is able to compete with developed countries, it has fallen because of medical records technology. in this study, hospital information systems in educational hospitals in tehran province were compared with...

background & aim:the quality of communication between midwives and parturient women is a determinant of maternal satisfaction with midwifery care. therefore, this study was conducted to determine the communication skills of midwives at maternity wards of mashhad teaching hospitals in 2014.   methods:in this descriptive study, 49 midwives, working at mashhad teaching hospitals, were randomly sel...