S ample medications allow physicians to quickly initiate therapy to evaluate initial patient response. However, sample closets primarily contain newer, costly brand name medications and rarely have generic options available. Studies now suggest that sample availability may affect the medications that physicians choose to subsequently prescribe, but little data exist regarding this effect in pri...

background: enterococci have emerged as a major cause of nosocomial infections and within this group, enterococcus faecalis and enterococcus faecium cause the majority of human and livestock enterococcal infections. in this article, we tried to determine antibiotics and metals resistance patterns of e. faecalis and e. faecium strains. methods: one hundred sixty different strains of e. faecalis ...

BACKGROUND Patient safety has been a priority in primary healthcare in the last years. The prevailing culture is seen as an important condition for patient safety in practice and several tools to measure patient safety culture have therefore been developed. Although Dutch primary care consists of different professions, such as general practice, dental care, dietetics, physiotherapy and midwifer...