Poor medication management practices can lead to serious erosion of health care quality and safety. The DHHS Medication Management Use Case outlines methods for the exchange of electronic health information to improve medication management practices. In this case report, the authors describe initial development of Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) services to support the Medication M...

In 2001 the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Gezira (FMUG) started to introduce the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy into its medical curriculum. The emphasis was on pre-service training that addresses standard case management and the IMCI community component. This report presents the experience of FMUG in integrating such a training package into the medical cu...

The CHWs can execute operations, including fast diagnostic tests, and offer high-quality malaria care. Proper training, precise rules, regular monitoring are crucial. For CHW initiatives to be successful in the long run, health system must support supply of goods, oversight, proper treatment referred cases. Since there isn't much information about how communities send people medical facilities,...

A reputation management system (RMS) is a system that helps users in an online community compute reputation of others. One important issue in this kind of systems is how to eliminate effect of unfair ratings. In this paper we make a survey of how people have solved this problem so far. Beside briefly explaining the solutions, we discuss about pros and cons of every solution and the future resea...

ingestion of foreign bodies is common and conservative treatment can eliminated most particlesfrom the gastrointestinal tractunless peritoneal signs appear. a 22-year-old man presented to emergency department who had ingested glass particles of a crushed beverage bottle. he complained of epigastric and periumbilical pain. physical examination did not revealany peritoneal signs. abdominal x-ray ...