Results Overall, 146 SB and 176 organisms were recorded in LTC wards vs. 336 and 376 in AGP wards, respectively. E. coli accounted for 55 % of urinary isolates in LTC wards vs. 68% in AGP wards (p<0.01). In AGP wards, there was no significant trend (c2) in the year-to-year utilization of FQ for treating SB (range 60%>75%) as well as in the rate of FQ-resistant E. coli, rising from 12% to 15% ov...

Introduction: Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) is a tertiary care hospital in Kathmandu. The emergency department sees between 130 to 140 cases per day. These patients get initial evaluation and basic investigation for acute management treatment. Those requiring further treatment are then admitted the of General Practice post which acts as an observation ward. This step allows be o...

BACKGROUND Protected engagement time (PET) is a concept of managing staff time on mental health inpatient wards with the aim of increasing staff and patient interaction. Despite apparent widespread use of PET, there remains a dearth of evidence as to how it is implemented and whether it carries benefits for staff or patients. This protocol describes a study which is being carried out on mental ...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To review literature on nurses' and health care workers' experiences of caring for people with dementia on orthopaedic wards. BACKGROUND Dementia is a condition that affects a large number of the older population worldwide. It is estimated that there are 47·5 million people worldwide living with dementia with 4·6 million new cases being diagnosed annually. This number is s...

Introduction. The prime role of the medical teacher of the future will be to provide his or her students with learning opportunity and to direct them to the proper resources rather than to teach, so the more presence of scientific board members in clinical wards can lead us to this goal. At this study we answer to this question that How will the quality of clinical education improve with increa...

A survey of five-day wards serving medical and surgical specialties indicated that 30 such units were operating in England in 1979. Six mixed surgical specialty, eight mixed specialty (medicine and surgery), four medical investigation, and 12 single specialty wards had opened since 1969. There was a varied, and often low, use of these wards. Nurse-staffing levels and allocation of operating the...

E are intrinsically resistant to many antimicrobial agents and have acquired resistance to commonly used agents, including ampicillin and aminoglycosides. Gylcopeptide antibiotics (including vancomycin) are the main option for treating multi-resistant enterococcus isolates. However, vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are becoming a major concern in medical practice.1 The VRE fecal colonizat...