regarding the role and importance of paradigm of evidence based practice and its remarkable impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of clinical services and healthcare, development of an integrated system seems necessary in order to manage dispersed data and ensure using evidence in clinical decision making, thus the aim of this study was designing a model for implementing national system of...

A health-care workforce representative of our nation's diversity is a health and research priority. Although racial and ethnic minorities represent 37% of Americans, they comprise only 16% of the nursing workforce. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of state legislation on minority recruitment to nursing. Using data from the National Conference of State Legislatures, American A...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between helmet legislation and admissions to hospital for cycling related head injuries among young people and adults in Canada. DESIGN Interrupted time series analysis using data from the National Trauma Registry Minimum Data Set. SETTING Canadian provinces and territories; between 1994 and 2003, six of 10 provinces implemented helmet legislation. ...

Under German law, federal ministries are responsible for preparing legislation, while federal states (Länder) are responsible for applying the legislation. The author describes the system, contrasting it with the situation in former East Germany, where preparation and application of legislation were controlled centrally. The author also describes the various inland water fisheries Acts and regu...

A potential problem with local enforcement of national legislation is the varying level of application the decentralized structure may create. To study the severity of this problem, induced by mismatching local and national incentives, I look at the enforcement of the Swedish Environmental Code which is a national legislation enforced on the local level. I measure enforcement in terms of enviro...

This paper analyses nursing and midwifery legislation in high HIV-burden countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region, with respect to global standards, and suggests areas that could be further examined to strengthen the nursing and midwifery professions and HIV service delivery. To provide universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment, sufficient number...

Australian surrogacy legislation punishes the pursuit of a commercial surrogacy arrangement as a criminal offence. Such legislation was first introduced in Victoria in 1986 and has since been applied in every Australian jurisdiction except for the Northern Territory. The current application of criminal law is based upon this 1980s policy which has never been subject to public debate. This artic...

The transition of an increasing number social relations into the virtual space and intensive development information technology is accompanied by emergence new illegal phenomena, in particular, a criminal law nature, which requires appropriate legal regulation. Recently, infringements on public field electronic payments has significantly increased, including issuers wallets. This trend creates ...