OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative on breast feeding rates in Scotland. DESIGN Observational study using an annual survey of progress towards the WHO/UNICEF Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative and routinely collected breast feeding rates gathered on the Guthrie Inborn Errors Screening card at 7 days of postnatal age. SETTING Scotland, UK, population 5.1 m...

The demographic data & patient characteristics in surgical unit-I and unit-II the hospital were enrolled study. In study, a total number of 240 prescriptions analyzed during study period which includes 92 male 148 female patients. Drug utilization can be defined as marketing, distribution, prescription use drugs society, considering its consequences, either medical, social, economic. presen...

OBJECTIVES To test the claim that the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) measures patient safety culture instead of mere individual attitudes and to determine the most appropriate level (individual, unit or hospital level) for interventions aimed at improving the culture of patient safety. METHODS National patient safety culture data were used from 1889 hospital staff working a...

Patient monitoring helps increasing the mortality by timely notification of exceeding vital signs. By using the vital sign data the critical care staff can make necessary life saving interventions. This requires the underlying network to be very robust so that timely and error free information flow can be guaranteed. Moreover there is a need for a cost effective and robust network technology fo...