Background: Thalassemia syndromes are the commonest genetic disorders of blood and constitute a vast public health problem with 2.78 to 4% prevalence in India. The most effective feasible approach reduce incidence thalassemia major is implementation carrier screening program screen antenatal women early pregnancy. Methods: Institutional based cross sectional observational study was conducted. W...

BACKGROUND In China, most people tend to use hospitals rather than health centers for their primary care generally due to the perception that quality of care provided in the hospital setting is superior to that provided at the health centers. No studies have been conducted in China to compare the quality of primary care provided at different health care settings. The purpose of this study is to...

714. Development of an Evidence-Based Antimicrobial Stewardship Smartphone App in a Tertiary Academic Pediatric and Women’s Health Centre in Canada Kathryn Slayter, BScPharm, PharmD; Jennifer Turple, BScPharm; Jeannette L. Comeau, MD, MSc; Karina A. Top, MD, MS; Joanne M. Langley, MD, FRCPC, FSHEA; Tim Mailman, MD and Scott A. Halperin, MD; IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada, Dalhousie Univ...

714. Development of an Evidence-Based Antimicrobial Stewardship Smartphone App in a Tertiary Academic Pediatric and Women’s Health Centre in Canada Kathryn Slayter, BScPharm, PharmD; Jennifer Turple, BScPharm; Jeannette L. Comeau, MD, MSc; Karina A. Top, MD, MS; Joanne M. Langley, MD, FRCPC, FSHEA; Tim Mailman, MD and Scott A. Halperin, MD; IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada, Dalhousie Univ...

Background In this article, we analyze one case instance of how proposals for change to the priority setting and resource allocation (PSRA) processes at a Canadian healthcare institution reached the decision agenda of the organization’s senior leadership. We adopt key concepts from an established policy studies framework – Kingdon’s multiple streams theory – to inform our analysis.   Methods Tw...