BACKGROUND Out-of-hours centres provide telephone support to patients with medical problems. In most of these centres specially-trained nurses handle incoming telephone calls. They assess patients' needs, the degree of urgency, and determine the level of care required. Assessment of the medical problem and the quality of 'care-by-phone' depend on the medical and communication skills of the call...

Objectives: To identify and to characterize of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates collected from food (n=43), handler (n=8), clinical samples (n=15). Methods: Genotyping was applied for the purposes epidemiological investigation source tracking these isolates. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) performed using restriction endonucleases SmaI. Findings: PFGE analysis...

A food handler must know information related to hygiene, sanitation, and nutrition maintain health hygiene so that consumers can avoid the dangers of or drink does not meet requirements. Until now, there are no guidelines stipulate regulations regarding provision safe hygienic beverages in canteens. The design used this research is qualitative with a case study method. sampling method was purpo...

This thesis describes and evaluates the effectiveness of four hardware mechanisms for software shared memory: block status bits, a global translation lookaside buffer, a fast, non-blocking, event system, and dedicated thread slots for software handlers. These mechanisms have been integrated into the M-Machine's MAP processor, and accelerate tasks which are common to many shared-memory protocols...

Research has shown that traditional food safety training programs and strategies to promote hand hygiene increases knowledge of the subject. However, very few studies have been conducted to evaluate the impact of food safety training on food handlers' attitudes about good hand hygiene practices. The objective of this meta-analytical study was to assess the extent to which food safety training ...

BACKGROUND In July 2005 an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis occurred on a residential summer camp in the province of Barcelona (northeast of Spain). Forty-four people were affected among residents and employees. All of them had in common a meal at lunch time on 13 July (paella, round of beef and fruit). The aim of this study was to investigate a foodborne norovirus outbreak that occurred in th...

BACKGROUND Food handlers have a very important role in preventing food contamination during its preparation and distribution. This responsibility is even greater in hospitals, since a large number of patients have low immunity and consequently food contamination by pathogenic bacteria could be particularly harmful. Therefore, a good working environment and periodic training should be provided t...

Refactoring is a disciplined process of restructuring software code in order to improve it, e.g., to make it more reusable, reliable and maintainable. The source of information that guides the refactoring process may be the software’s user profiles. An increasingly important class of software is event-based software. Event-based software take an event as an input, change their state, and perhap...