BACKGROUND Informed consent is an important part of the patients' rights and hospitals are assigned to obtain informed consent before any diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Obtaining an informed consent enables patients to accept or reject their care or treatments and prevent future contentions among patients and medical staff. METHODS This survey was carried out during 2011-2. We assessed...

abstract   background: evaluate the adherence to facility management and safety standards among governmental and non-governmental hospitals in shiraz, iran.   methods: in this cross sectional study, 22 hospitals of the 33 hospitals in shiraz, iran including 13 governmental and 9 non-governmental facilities were surveyed. a 74-item self-administered questionnaire was used. collected data were en...

The objective of this journal is to compare the efficiency between these two algorithms, simple round robin and improved algorithms. In real time systems algorithm, plays a significant role be used in embedded systems. Here we average turn around waiting time, also number context switching Improved an algorithm where if remaining burst less than allocated quantum then running process executed. ...

Governmental entities, by their nature, repeat geographically across the nation and around the world. As such, they have duplications of needs and of course this leads to “reinventing of the wheel”. Given the available technologies available today, much of this duplication can be eliminated using the “open source” software paradigm for the construction of information systems. The goals of this ...

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PURPOSE To evaluate the governmental costs of patients undergoing phacoemulsification and extracapsular cataract extraction at a public hospital in a developing country. METHODS A prospective study was conduced with 205 patients. The subjects were randomized for cataract surgery using either phacoemulsification or extracapsular cataract extraction techniques. RESULTS Of the 205 patients, 10...

Though the potential benefits of broadband Internet adoption are great, the levels of take-up vary greatly around the world. Some governments have adopted aggressive policies to deploy broadband networks and to encourage the use of these applications, while others have not. In the former cases, governments are motivated to promote broadband adoption in order to realize both economic and social ...