Introduction / objectives Nurse uniforms can act as a reservoir of infections, with the areas around the pockets, cuffs and aprons the most contaminated. The aim of this study is compare the contamination of Standard nurse’s uniform consisted of a dress, pinafore apron with the “scrub dress” type of uniform, as well as to measure the influence of the number of shifts as uniform was used in its ...

We report the results of a randomized trial to assess the impact of an innovative ethics curriculum on the knowledge and confidence of 85 medical house officers in a university hospital programme, as well as their responses to a simulated clinical case. Twenty-five per cent of the house officers received a lecture series (Limited Intervention or LI), 25 per cent received lectures and case confe...

The slum is not only a manifestation of mismanaged urban planning in the countries of the South. The existence of slums worldwide is also a sign that the slum is a crucial element of contemporary urbanisation. This article will attempt to define this phenomenon and understand its causes. Adequate policy responses are then suggested. Without finding appropriate solutions to the housing problems ...

In order to analyse the impact of oxacillin resistance on the mortality of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, and to assess the antimicrobial susceptibility of community-acquired strains in two large university hospitals (the Instituto do Coração do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo and the Instituto Central do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medic...

ALVES GOMES, G. (1); MELIM MARQUES, L. (2); ALVES GOMES, G. (3); SPIEGEL NASCIMENTO, C. (4); ARAÚJO-JORGE CREMONINE, T. (5) y LUZ MOTTA, M. (6) (1) Departamento de Biologia Celular e Molecular. [email protected] (2) Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. [email protected] (3) Universidade Federal Fluminense. [email protected] (4) Universidade Federal Fluminense. [email protected] (5) Institut...

In this paper, we present a PropBank of clinical Finnish, an annotated corpus of verbal propositions and arguments. The clinical PropBank is created on top of a previously existing dependency treebank annotated in the Stanford Dependency (SD) scheme and covers 90% of all verb occurrences in the treebank. We establish that the PropBank scheme is applicable to clinical Finnish as well as compatib...

INTRODUCTION Adherence to infection control guidelines is low, and several efforts have been made to improve healthcare workers' performance of infection control measures. In this study, the performance and evaluation of a hospital-wide infection control programme is described. The most important measure was distribution of an infection control newsletter. METHODS In evaluation of the program...

The School of Computing and Technology at the University of Sunderland teaches a diverse range of programmes to a disparate range of students. This paper will outline and evaluate the specific subjects taught in each module at each level, the applications and methodologies used, and the relationship between modules at different levels. It will also discuss the various assessment methodologies e...

The Health Administration field understands and deals with quality issues in a way that differs from what is seen in the industry. This article presents a survey done in a sample of 159 hospitals in São Paulo state during the second semester 1999 regarding the implementation of quality initiatives. The sample had public, philanthropic, non-philanthropic and university hospitals. Among 97 hospit...