BACKGROUND Relatively little is known about how scorecards presenting performance indicators influence medication safety. We evaluated the effects of implementing a ward-level medication safety scorecard piloted in two English NHS hospitals and factors influencing these. METHODS We used a mixed methods, controlled before and after design. At baseline, wards were audited on medication safety i...

in recent years, agriculture has become the prime polluter of natural resources. it is therefore essential to make assessments based on reliable indicators to ensure that an agricultural system remains not only productive, but also ecologically sound. a large area of arable land in guilan province is devoted to rice cultivation so the transition to environmentally sound agricultural practice in...

Obesity represents a major risk factor for a plethora of severe diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and cancer. It is often accompanied by an increased risk of mortality and, in the case of non-fatal health problems, the quality of life is impaired because of associated conditions, including sleep apnea, respiratory problems, osteoarthritis, ...

Winds from massive stars have recently been deemed promising sites for investigating relativistic particle acceleration. Particularly, the resulting bow shock interaction of winds runaway with interstellar matter has observed at multiple wavelengths. Here we investigate O4If star, BD+433654, which is, so far, only one proven to radiate both thermally and non-thermally radio frequencies. We also...

this article tries to study the increase or decrease in the performance of the divested companies to the non-governmental public sector and the private sector compared to the period before the divestiture and then it tries compare the private sector and the nongovernmental public sector in improving the performance indexes. to answer two basic questions of the research, the financial indicators...

An economic evaluation of various control programmes against Theileria annulata infection was conducted on a sample of 49 Tunisian dairy farms where clinical cases of tropical theileriosis had been recorded during the summer. Indicators of morbidity and the prevalence of infection, as well as production and demographic indicators (recorded in the present survey ortaken from secondary sources), ...