UNLABELLED Neonatal intensive care is generally considered justified in the majority of very premature infants, but there is some concern about the effectiveness of the techniques used at the margins of viability (22-24 wk of gestation). The controversy that exists in this area is largely due to a lack of agreed endpoints for geographically based populations where all live births are considered...

patients safety status in intensive care unit of urmia hospitals from nurses viewpoint     sheikhbaklu m [1] , hemmati maslakpak m [2] *, baghaie r [3]     received: 9 apr , 2013 accepted: 15 jun , 2013     abstract   background & aims : patient safety is central to high quality care, and keeping it in a standard level can lead to success in accessing the treatment outcomes. this study evaluate...

Background knowledge is a natural resource for knowledge-intensive methods: Its exploitation can often improve the quality of their results significantly. In this paper we present a methodological view on knowledge-intensive subgroup discovery: We introduce different classes and specific types of useful background knowledge, discuss their benefit and costs, and describe their application in the...

The primary goal of this study is to identify patterns in the ways mothers adhere to, reject, and combine intensive mothering attitudes behaviors. Mothers often face immense pressure devote significant physical mental effort toward childrearing, referred as mothering. At same time, many do not follow actions or beliefs that gender norms suggest they should. It remains unclear how holistically a...

BackgroundMany studies reported that copper, zinc and magnesium play important roles in the pathogenesis and development of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Exchange transfusion and intensive phototherapy are known two modalities of therapy for severe neonatal hyper bilirubinemia, but the effect of them on those trace elements is unknown.Materials and MethodsCopper, Zinc and Magnesium serum levels ...

OBJECTIVE Very preterm birth (< 30 weeks' gestation) is a stressful event for parents, and few support interventions for these parents have been evaluated. In this study, we evaluated the effectiveness of parent-to-parent peer support for mothers of very preterm infants in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). METHODS In this cohort study, 32 mothers were recruited for the intervention group...

The aging of the population has increased the demand for healthcare resources. The number of patients aged 80 years and older admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) increased during the past decade, as has the intensity of care for such patients. Yet, many physicians remain reluctant to admit the oldest, arguing a "squandering" of societal resources, that ICU care could be deleterious, or th...