INTRODUCTION Organic regulations in the US strictly regulate medications may be used on organic farms (USDA, 2011). While both Canadian and EU organic standards discourage the use of antibiotics or prohibited synthetic compounds, both standards contain provisions that allow limited usage of antibiotics (without loss of organic status of the animal) under strictly defined conditions and with ext...

CONTEXT Clinical supervision has a vital role in postgraduate and, to some extent, undergraduate medical education. However it is probably the least investigated, discussed and developed aspect of clinical education. This large-scale, interdisciplinary review of literature addressing supervision is the first from a medical education perspective. PURPOSE To review the literature on effective s...

BACKGROUND There are few published standards or methodological guidelines for integrating Data Quality Assurance (DQA) protocols into large-scale health systems research trials, especially in resource-limited settings. The BetterBirth Trial is a matched-pair, cluster-randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the BetterBirth Program, which seeks to improve quality of facility-based deliveries and red...

Lovers of classical music may disagree about many things, but if you ask them to name the ideal musical form they will almost all say it is the string quartet. There are many reasons why the quartet has this revered place in the musical repertoire. The intimacy of the form allows composers to express profound ideas and emotions that are more diluted in their symphonies, concertos and operas. Pr...

Production safety standards are the foundation of industry supervision, basic requirements and measurement scales for production enterprises to achieve management standardization, onsite operation standardization. They construction sanitary ceramics consolidate management, improve intrinsic equipment, strengthen personnel awareness, The implementation main responsibility enterprise necessary bu...

BACKGROUND Over one million people in Uganda are estimated to be infected with HIV and about 20% of these were already accessing antiretroviral therapy (ART), by 2010. There is a dearth of data on adherence to antiretroviral therapy and yet high client load on a weak and resource constrained health system impacts on provision of quality HIV/AIDS care. We assessed adherence to standards of HIV c...

Supervision: There are several interpretations of the term ‘supervision’, but typically supervision is the activity of overseeing the productivity and progress of employees who report directly to the supervisors. Occasionally, writers will interchange ‘leadership’ and ‘supervision’. Both activities are closely related. Supervision requires leadership. Leadership does not necessarily have to inv...

The water conservancy project is an important infrastructure to ensure people’s living standards, which reflected in the protection of lives and property by effectively resisting floods. anti-seepage technology plays a significant role affecting construction quality projects. Under current strong supervision projects, relevant personnel should pay more attention application technology. From per...

Clinical supervision and training are now widely available online. In this article, three of the most accessible and widely adopted new developments in clinical supervision and training technology are described: Videoconference supervision, cloud-based file sharing software, and clinical outcome tracking software. Partial transcripts from two online supervision sessions are provided as examples...