Graduate Institute of Microbiology and Public Health, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan Department of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OES, UK Department of Forestry, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan e Teaching Hospital of V...

background incomplete hospitalization is the cause of disease relapse, readmission, and increase in medical costs. discharge against medical advice (dama) in emergency department (ed) is critical for hospitals. this paper aims to explore the underlying reasons behind dama in ed of four teaching hospitals in kerman, iran.   methods this was a cross-sectional study in which the samples were drawn...

1Department of Medicine I, Wilhelminenspital Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2Internal Hematooncological Clinic, Faculty Hospital Brno and Faculty of Medicine MU, Brno, Czech Republic; 3Clinic of Hematology, Faculty Hospital with Policlinic, Kosice, Slovakia; 4Clinical Division of Oncology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 5Clinical Hospital “Rebro,” Zagreb, Croatia; 6Department of Inter...

The writing committee members: Mary Poulton (chair), Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Jane Anderson, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Yusef Azad, National AIDS Trust James Chalmers, School of Law, University of Glasgow Anna Maria Geretti, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool Mark Nelson, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Chloe Orkin, Barts...

1 Centre for Paediatrics, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, 2 MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London, United Kingdom, 3 Zvitambo Project, Harare, Zimbabwe, 4 Children’s Infectious Disease Clinical Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Children’s Hospital, Tygerberg, South Africa, 5 Mulago Hospital, Paediatric Infecti...

Hospital No. 64, Russian University of People’s Friendship, Moscow, Russia; Orion Pharma, Research Center, Espoo, Finland; P. Stradin’s Research and Teaching Hospital, Latvian Medical Academy, Riga, Latvia; A.L. Myasnikov Institute of Cardiology, Cardiology Research Center, Moscow, Russia; Cardiology Clinic, Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine, Moscow, Russia; Department of G...

The university hospitals of Geneva are the largest consortium of public hospitals in Switzerland. This organization is born in 1995, after a political decision to merge the seven public and teaching hospitals of the Canton of Geneva. From an information technologies perspective, it took several years to reach a true unified vision of the complete organization. The clinical information system is...

A mass CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) teaching programme, believed to be the first in Malaysia, was held at the Dewan Tunku Canselor, University of Malaya (UM) on Saturday, 13th July 1996. Organised by the Resuscitation Committee of University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, this programme was conducted for 200 first year UM students. We describe the organisation of this non-traditional and non-t...

OBJECTIVES To report and analyse trends in antibiotic use in Dutch university hospitals, large teaching hospitals and general hospitals over the period 2003 to 2009. METHODS Data on the use of antibiotics and hospital resource indicators were obtained by distributing a questionnaire to all Dutch hospital pharmacies. Antibiotic use was expressed as the number of defined daily doses (DDDs) per ...