SETTING A tertiary health care facility (Government General and Chest hospital) in Hyderabad, India. OBJECTIVES To assess a) the extent of compliance of specialists to standardized national (RNTCP) tuberculosis management guidelines and b) if patients on discharge from hospital were being appropriately linked up with peripheral health facilities for continuation of anti-Tuberculosis (TB) trea...

in this paper we study finding the $(k,l)$-core problem on a tree which the vertices have positive or negative weights. let $t=(v,e)$ be a tree. the $(k,l)$-core of $t$ is a subtree with at most $k$ leaves and with a diameter of at most $l$ which the sum of the weighted distances from all vertices to this subtree is minimized. we show that, when the sum of the weights of vertices is negative, t...

CONTEXT Personal care services (PCS) are intended to enable beneficiaries with physical or cognitive impairments to live safely at home rather than in nursing facilities. The quality and flexibility of these services, typically provided by home care agencies, may not be sufficient to allow some beneficiaries to continue living at home. OBJECTIVE We sought to test whether consumer direction of...

Bangladesh is committed to the peaceful use of atomic energy and has signed all protocols and additional protocol of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in this regards. Bangladesh is operating nuclear facilities using radioisotopes, sealed radioactive sources (SRS) and generating radioactive wastes including spent SRS. This paper mainly focuses on the safe management of spent SRS gen...

OBJECTIVE To assess patients' opinions on the perceived benefit of treatment delivered during their stay in a residential facility. METHOD We administered the Opinions on Curative Factors Questionnaire (OCFQ), which was developed from previous studies and assesses several treatment modalities and therapeutic factors, to a sample of 157 severely ill psychiatric patients admitted to a residenti...

BACKGROUND Identification of new ways to increase access to antiretroviral therapy in Africa is an urgent priority. We assessed whether home-based HIV care was as effective as was facility-based care. METHODS We undertook a cluster-randomised equivalence trial in Jinja, Uganda. 44 geographical areas in nine strata, defined according to ratio of urban and rural participants and distance from t...

competitive facility location focus on locating facilities by considering the fact of competition in businesses, so every facilities try to reach their reachable shares through competition. reachable shares have an indirect relation with the distance of facilities to the customer and a direct relation with the attractiveness of the facility. attractiveness of any facility is depend on variety o...

a facility location is said to be competitive when other facilities are present in the market and new facilities have to compete with these existing facilities for a market share. in other words, in a competitive facility location problem we do not see monopoly that exists in classic location models. in such a situation, existing facilities react to locate new facilities by adjusting their attr...

PURPOSE To investigate the effect of 180° versus 360° primary selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) on tonographic outflow facility and intraocular pressure (IOP). DESIGN Prospective, single masked randomised clinical trial. PARTICIPANTS Patients with untreated primary open angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension both with IOP > 21-35 mmHg. METHODS 40 patients randomly treated with 180° or ...