BACKGROUND Preventable adverse drug events (pADEs) are widely known to be a health care issue for hospitalized patients. Surgical patients are especially at risk, but prevention of pADEs in this population is not demonstrated before. Ward-based pharmacy interventions seem effective in reducing pADEs in medical patients. The cost-effectiveness of these preventive efforts still needs to be assess...

OBJECTIVE To study the potential of a short stay ward attached to an accident and emergency (A&E) department to improve care and reduce admissions to hospital by enabling elderly patients to be monitored closely for up to 24 h before being formally admitted to hospital or discharged home. Patients admitted to the short stay ward were those who appeared to need only a brief period of assessment ...

Velde. Neville Spearman. 10s. 6d. Life in a home for old people is vividly portrayed in this fine novel translated from the Dutch by Ellen and Roy Hulbert. The author, who knows her scene and subject well enough to be the daughter of her own story, presents a very convincing picture of the gradual decline of a group of elderly women in a large institution. There could be no more compelling stat...

Introduction: Logbooks show whether medical students have been exposed to a particular disease and whether they are able to perform particular practices or not. To evaluate the training status of the medical students in the pediatric ward of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, the data about the students’ knowledge of different diseases in different parts of the pediatric ward in 2011 was co...

an electrocardiogram (ecg) leads physicians to diagnose many potentially life-threatening cardiac, metabolic, electrolyte, and toxicological conditions. this study was designed to evaluate the competency of emergency medicine residents (emrs) in comparison with cardiologists in the interpretation of ecg when an interpretation checklist is used. this clinical trial was done in the emergency ward...

background: with regard to accelerated progresses in the world of science and technology, as well as changes in the needs of the society, medical education should be a developing process. one of the main factors that can promote education from a static to a dynamic and effective state is evaluation. purpose: the purpose of the present survey is to determine the rate of success of medical studen...

was attempting to diminish barriers by encouraging patients to visit the town, and townspeople to visit the hospital. (The admission and discharge rate from and to the town, though small, was valuable in this respect.) It seemed too discouraging to ask any person or small group to visit and help 850 hospital patients, but we were thinking of our patients in the institutional mass. By breaking i...

Methods In our center, deaths are systematically reported to the « Quality & Patient Safety Department » via a questionnaire inquiring into the causes, circumstances and characteristics of death. Medical records of «unexpected » deaths (UD) (= “death that was not expected to occur at that time or/and under these circumstances”) were reviewed, after exclusion of patients with DNR orders. We anal...

Using the ‘Riemann Problem with zeros’ method, Ward has constructed exact solutions to a (2 + 1)–dimensional integrable Chiral Model, which exhibit solitons with nontrivial scattering. We give a correspondence between what we conjecture to be all pure soliton solutions and certain holomorphic vector bundles on a compact surface. AMS Classification numbers Primary: 35Q51 Secondary: 58F07