OBJECTIVE To examine mortality in a representative nationwide sample of homeless and marginally housed people living in shelters, rooming houses, and hotels. DESIGN Follow-up study. SETTING Canada 1991-2001. PARTICIPANTS 15 100 homeless and marginally housed people enumerated in 1991 census. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Age specific and age standardised mortality rates, remaining life expectan...

background patient participation in nursing has great application and values the humanarian values of patients. patient participation is an international golden standard in the modern nursing paradigm. despite the importance of patient participation and its routine use in professional care, this concept is not clear, especially in social and cultural context of iranian nursing. this study clari...

BACKGROUND Recent policy reforms encourage quality improvement (QI) innovations in primary care, but practitioners lack clear guidance regarding spread inside organizations. PURPOSE We designed this study to identify how large organizations can facilitate intraorganizational spread of QI innovations. METHODOLOGY/APPROACH We conducted ethnographic observation and interviews in a large, multi...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to assess the expected and received informative support in lactation in hospitalized lying-in women. Such variables as the number of deliveries and participation in antenatal classes were taken into consideration. MATERIAL AND METHODS The research was conducted from May to September 2005, and involved 202 lying-in women staying in maternity wards in Chair and ...

UNLABELLED The aim of the study was to estimate the need for information support concerned with care of a baby and evaluation of lying-in women expectations referred to sources of support, methods and devices used during presentation. The research included 200 lying-in women hospitalized in Clinic of Obstetrics and Perinatology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin; there were separated th...

BACKGROUND Concerns have been raised in Australia and internationally regarding the quality and effectiveness of hospital postnatal care, although Australian women receiving postnatal care in the private maternity sector rate their satisfaction with care more highly than women receiving public maternity care. In Victoria, Australia, two-thirds of women receive their maternity care in the public...

ABSTRACT Objectives: to compare the parameters of activity/rest cycle early postpartum breastfeeding women under a controlled and uncontrolled long wavelength ray light regimen. Methods: quasi-experimental study with their babies during postnatal rooming-in, São Paulo, Brazil. Participants were allocated either an experimental (intervention) or comparison group. The intervention involved exposu...

Some maternal factors associated with neonatal hypoglycemia justify monitoring blood glucose levels in the first 24 hours of life. The objective of this study was to describe the socio-demographic and obstetric characteristics of mothers to newborns undergoing capillary blood glucose control in the first 24 hours of life, hospitalized in a rooming-in maternity ward of a Baby Friendly Hospital. ...

BACKGROUND There are not many studies exploring parity differences in early lactation performance and the results obtained are fairly often contradictory. The present study investigated the effect of different maternity home practices in St. Petersburg, Russia, as well as of physiological breast engorgement and maternal mood, on milk production in primi- and multiparous women on day four. The a...