The evidence on the safety, efficacy and patient centeredness of Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) services is scarce. In 2015, we carried out a search literature to identify specific indicators for HEN as tools be used assess quality INRCA services. No were found. Through subsequent literature, have identified appropriate methodology define developed eight (8) track our service geriatric patients. ...

Although indigenous peoples have lower life expectancies than the social majority populations in their countries, increasing numbers of indigenous people are living into old age. Research on indigenous elders is informed by a number of research traditions. Researchers have mined existing data sets to compare characteristics of indigenous populations with non-indigenous groups, and these finding...

[email protected]). Summary This paper synthesises the lessons learnt and challenges encountered when applying Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge and methods in natural and cultural resource management (NCRM) in northern and central Australia. We primarily draw on the papers within this special issue of Ecological Management & Restoration, which originated largely fro...

BACKGROUND Asthma is more common among Indigenous than non-Indigenous Australian adults, but little is known about socioeconomic patterning of asthma within the Indigenous population, or whether it is similar to the non-Indigenous population. METHODS I analysed weighted data on self-reported current diagnosed asthma and a range of socio-economic and demographic measures for 5,417 Indigenous a...

a r t i c l e i n f o Previous research on differences and similarities in self-concept of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian students did not consider the possible differentiation between competence and affect components. As a result, it is unknown whether previously found differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students' self-concepts are the result of their beliefs about thei...

BACKGROUND Although Indigenous Australians are over-represented among heroin users, there has been no study examining offending, time in custody, and opioid substitution therapy (OST) treatment utilisation among Indigenous opioid-dependent (including heroin) people at the population level, nor comparing these to non-Indigenous opioid-dependent people. The aims of this study were to compare the ...

This paper presents both the results of a study existing heat exchanger network (HEN) an industrial unit for ethylbenzene (EB) production by alkylation benzene with ethylene, and analysis four different HEN retrofit projects carried out using process integration methods. The project modernization was classical methods Pinch analysis. For this case, value ΔTmin is determined, which limited techn...

context aboriginal and torres strait islanders (aboriginal) account for approximately 3% of the australian population. they have the poorest health, economic and social outcomes. higher notification rates of hepatitis c antibodies (anti-hcv) have been reported among aboriginal compared with non-aboriginal people. the identification of aboriginal people in national surveillance has some weakness...

An eight week study was conducted to investigate the effect of inclusion of tomato waste meal in layer diets on laying performance, egg quality and lipid profile as a means to reduce feed cost and pollution. Four laying diets containing tomato waste meal (TWM) at four levels of 0, 3, 6 or 9% were assigned randomly to 4 groups of 40 birds divided among four replicates of 10 birds in each dietary...

BACKGROUND: Genetic research has potential benefits for improving health, such as identifying molecular characteristics of a disease, understanding disease prevalence and treatment, and developing treatments tailored to patients based on individual genetic characteristics of their disease. Indigenous people are often targeted for genetic research because genes are easier to study in communities...