background: to increase safety of patients and staffs in hospitals, safety standards and regulations must be considered. this study was conducted to evaluate safety conditions in hospitals affiliated to kerman university of medical sciences.   methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in various wards and units of four hospitals affiliated to kerman university of medical sci...

A Revista de Saúde Pública publicou um trabalho2 no qual medidas de co-morbidade foram utilizadas para a predição do risco de óbito em pacientes hospitalizados com problemas respiratórios ou cardíacos. Um dos índices aplicados para isso foi o conhecido Índice de Comorbidade de Charlson (ICC), adaptado para a Classifi cação Internacional de Doenças 10a Revisão (CID-10) a partir do esquema introd...

Introduction: Complex sociotechnical systems, such as automotive industry, require a proper macro-ergonomic approach to design and implement the work system at micro-ergonomic level. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate effective macroeconomic factors to improve productivity, health and safety of employees in the automotive industry based on Holden & Karsh model. Material and ...

A factor of safety method for quantitative estimates of grid-spacing and time-step uncertainties for solution verification is developed. It removes the two deficiencies of the grid convergence index and correction factor methods, namely, unreasonably small uncertainty when the estimated order of accuracy using the Richardson extrapolation method is greater than the theoretical order of accuracy...

this study aimed to develop an index that can rank welding workplace that associate well with possible health risk of welders.welding fumes health index (wfhi) were developed based on data from case studies conducted in plant 1 and plant 2. personal sampling of welding fumes to assess the concentration of metal constituents along with series of lung function tests was conducted. fifteen metal c...

Measures taken to decrease interdependent risks within chemical industrial areas should be based on quantitative data from a holistic (cluster-based) point of view. Therefore, this paper examines the typology of networks representing industrial areas to formulate recommendations to more effectively protect a chemical cluster against existing systemic risks. Chemical industrial areas are modeled...

The safety index of ether, chloroform and halothane in mice has been determined after administration of each of seven combinations of drugs commonly used in pre-anaesthetic medication. Following hyoscine-morphine and pentobarbitone-atropine the index for ether was significantly higher than that of the control series, whilst following atropine-pethidine it was significantly lower. The index for ...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION The influence of overweight/obesity on the clinical efficacy and safety of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors is unclear. We carried out a pooled analysis to examine the impact of body mass index on the efficacy and safety of ipragliflozin. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patient-level data were pooled for five Japanese double-blind trials (NCT00621868, NCT01057628, NCT0113543...

The use of crash data based methodologies for safety evaluation has been usually problematic due to the many shortcomings such as, unavailability and low quality of historical crash data. Other than crash data based analysis, development of micro-simulation models in conjunction with surrogate safety measures is shown to have potential to complement traditional safety analysis. However several ...