BACKGROUND The principles of informed consent, confidentiality and privacy are often neglected during patient care in developing countries. We assessed the degree to which doctors in Lahore adhere to these principles during outpatient consultations. MATERIAL & METHOD The study was conducted at medical out-patient departments (OPDs) of two tertiary care hospitals (one public and one private ho...

Senior Lecturer, Public Health Dentistry, Maharajaganga Singh Dental College and Research Centre, Sriganganagar, Rajasthan, India, Senior Lecturer, Public Health Dentistry, Rajah Muthaiah Dental College and Hospital, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India, Reader, Public Health Dentistry, Royal Dental College & Hospital, Chalissery, Palakkad, Kerala, India, Consultant, Public Health Dentistry, Bellary,...

background and purpose: organizational commitment is one the important attitude in organizations, which together with development of ethical values that needs to be emphasized. the goal of this study is to survey relationship between staff ethical values and organizational commitment in public and non- public hospitals in tehran. materials & methods: this correlation study includes 280 public a...

Author details Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Clinic, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB, Hospital Clinic-Universitat de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain. Infectious Diseases Unit, Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Public Health Agency of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spai...

rom the Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Scie orway; Department of Cardiology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway; Department of rondheim, Norway; Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm edicine, Levanger Hospital, Nord-Trøndelag Hospital Trust, Levanger, Norway; Research I niversity Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway...

Anne Vested, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark Cecilia Hoest Ramlau-Hansen, University of Aarhus, Denmark Sjurdur Frodi Olsen, Statens Serum Institut, Denmark Jens Peter Bonde, Bispebjerg Hospital of Copenhagen University, Denmark Susanne Lund Kristensen, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark Thorhallur Ingi Halldorsson, University of Iceland, Iceland Georg Becher, Norwegian Institute of Public...

Caroline Willis*, Jim McLauchlin, Corinne Amar, Lorraine Sadler-Reeves, Nicola Elviss, Heather Aird, Andrew Fox and Moira Kaye 1 Public Health England Food Water and Environmental Microbiology Laboratory Porton, Porton Down, Salisbury. Public Health England Food Water and Environmental Microbiology Laboratory London, Colindale, London. Gastrointestinal Bacteria Reference Unit, Public Health Eng...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of birth care based on the World Health Organization guidelines. METHODS A case-control study was carried out in a public and a private maternity hospitals contracted by the Brazilian Health System in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from October 1998 to March 1999. The sample comprised 461 women in the public maternity hospital (230 vaginal deliveries and...

OBJECTIVE To assess rational use of blood and blood products in adults treated in surgical and allied departments in a public and a private hospital in Islamabad. METHODS The comparative cross-sectional study was conducted from April 15 to June 15, 2011, in Islamabad. A total of 350 patients were enrolled using universal sampling; 170 (48%) from the public and 180 (52%) from the private hospi...