INTRODUCTION Telemedicine is an emerging technology in health sector in India. The success of any new technology depends on many factors including the knowledge and understanding of the concept, skills acquired, attitude towards technology and working environment by the concerned professionals. AIM The main objective of this study was to assess the awareness, knowledge, attitude and skills of...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether the mentoring scheme currently used has an impact on the training of senior house officers and also determine if they are willing to accept middle grade mentors. METHODS A questionnaire comprising 10 questions was sent to all the senior house officers employed in the emergency departments of two large inner city teaching hospitals and three large district hospi...

This is a collaborative study comparing the quality of life (QoL) and its predictors between outpatients of university teaching hospitals in southwest China and southern Thailand in terms of different domains of QoL as well as whether socio-economic variables affect the QoL of the two groups of patients to the same extent. Two hundred sixty-one and two hundred forty-eight randomly chosen outpat...

BACKGROUND There is an increasing trend of outsourcing public departments. Teaching hospitals also outsourced some of their departments to private sectors. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the educational status of students in public and outsourced departments of teaching hospitals affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences. METHODS This study was conducted in six t...

Over a five year period beginning in 1981, during which control measures were applied intermittently, the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates increased steadily within a twin site general hospital. A retrospective chart review of 154 patients identified in 1984-1985 showed that the MRSA 'definitely' contributed to three deaths (2%) and 'probably' contributed...

INTRODUCTION Knowledge, attitude, and skills of nurses regarding evidence-based medicine are some of the important individual potentials in the implementation of these cares. There is no evidence indicating Iranian nurses to have these individual potentials. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determination the perceptions of nurses about individual potentials in evidence-based nursing and ...

* iie experiment which this paper rec?r^.^. mental form of social clubs, two of them m a p t.patient hospital and four attached to *he <fjathem Apartments of voluntary hospitals, teaching hospitals. n We started with a club for in-patients at u with three main ideas in our minds. (a) Patients robbed of their freedom on entering an institution would probably improve if they were given at least t...

Surgical histopathology is learnt principally by the practical experience of reporting routine cases. This study performed a quantitative audit of the types of specimens reported by trainees at a teaching hospital and a district general hospital. At the teaching hospital all cases are seen by trainees and it was predicted that the distribution of specimens among trainees would be entirely rando...

OBJECTIVES Ethical issues have recently been raised regarding the appropriate care of patients in persistent vegetative state (PVS) in Japan. The purpose of our study is to study the attitudes and beliefs of Japanese physicians who have experience caring for patients in PVS. DESIGN AND SETTING A postal questionnaire was sent to all 317 representative members of the Japan Society of Apoplexy w...

BACKGROUND Evidence for the effectiveness of the morbidity and mortality conferences in improving patient safety is lacking. The aim of this survey was to assess the opinion of participants concerning the benefits and the functioning of morbidity and mortality conferences, according to their organizational characteristics. METHODS We conducted a survey of professionals involved in a morbidity...