Psychologists practice in an increasingly diverse range of health care delivery systems. The following guidelines are intended to assist psychologists, other health care providers, administrators in health care delivery systems, and the public to conceptualize the roles and responsibilities of psychologists in these diverse contexts. These guidelines revise and build upon earlier guidelines reg...

OBJECTIVES Antibacterial drugs (hereafter referred to as antibiotics) are crucial to treat infections during delivery and postpartum period to reduce maternal mortality. Institutional deliveries have the potential to save lives of many women but extensive use of antibiotics, add to the development and spread of antibiotic resistance. The aim of this study was to present antibiotic prescribing a...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to provide an economic assessment of the incremental costs associated with obtaining the World Health Organization and United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund designation as a Infant-Friendly hospital. We hypothesized that baby-friendly hospitals will have higher costs than similar non-baby-friendly hospitals. METHODS Data from the 2...

A hospital-based, prospective cohort study was conducted at the tertiary care university hospital in southern Thailand, between 1 November 2001 and 31 December 2003. The purpose of this study was to compare the various complications found in vaginal and caesarean deliveries based on the original elected intended mode of delivery. There were a total of 1,429 cases, 1,242 intended vaginal deliver...

Title: Listening to their voices: understanding rural women's perceptions of good delivery care at the Mibilizi District Hospital in Rwanda Authors: Zack Ndirima ([email protected]) Florian Neuhann ([email protected]) Claudia Beiersmann ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 12 Jan 2018 Author’s response to reviews: BMWH-D-16-00406 Listening to their voices: understan...

background & aim: the risks of maternal mortality and morbidity associated with cesarean delivery are three and two times higher than vaginal delivery, respectively. the majority of cesarean sections are due to failure to progress in labor. one of the common risk factors for failure to progress is small maternal body size. cormic index is an indicator of body composition assessment, which estim...

AIM This study investigated relational coordination among professionals providing healthcare to hospitalized older patients and assessed its impact on integrated care delivery. BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that relational coordination is positively associated with the delivery of acute, emergency and trauma care. The effect of relational coordination in integrated care delivery to h...

Staphylococcus aureus responsible for nosocomial infections is a significant threat to the public health. The increasing resistance of S.aureus to various antibiotics has drawn it to a prime focus for research on designing an appropriate drug delivery system. Emergence of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in 1961, necessitated the use of vancomycin"the drug of last resort"to tr...