BACKGROUND Concerns about hospital medication safety mount as the pace of new drug releases accelerates. METHODS We performed a randomized study at 2 hospitals (A and B) to examine whether the medication administration error rate could be decreased by having "dedicated" nurses focus exclusively on administering drugs. "Medication nurses," after receiving a brief review course on safe medicati...

By increasing the health promotion actions in the Family Health Strategy it is possible to contribute to implement comprehensive care. Nevertheless, technologies gap still hinder the process of training the professionals to analyze the health potentials of the population. The objective of this study is to synthesize the contributions of the WHOQOL-bref in training professionals regarding the he...

background: it is known that basic science and general courses play a vital role in training of medical students. the medical students' comprehensive basic science examination (cbse) scores seem to be a potential tool for predicting their comprehensive pre-internship examination (cpie) scores. purpose: to evaluate the predictive validity of medical students' cbse scores for predicting their cpi...

In this paper, we design a multi-interface model on single mobile node and every node in the cognitive network is implemented multiple transceivers. P-persistent slotted CSMA is used as the access protocol. Interfaces with different channels may have different values of ps. To avoid crosstalk, multiple transceivers of each node must work in the same state, only sending or receiving, at one time...

This paper examines reports on how care is administered by Family Health Teams (FHT) doctors and nurses in four state capitals. It identifies issues relating to priority actions, routine activities and the association between the professional profile and how selected activities are performed, in an attempt to ascertain how far these approximate to the comprehensive approach to primary health ca...

More than 2 million children in the United States live in military families and 90 000 infants are born to these families each year. Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, third edition,1 a publication of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), outlines an approach to comprehensive care for the individual child in the context of his or her fam...