Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Abt Associates, Cambridge, MA VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI Division of ...

the prenatal period is the best time for health interventions. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of different methods of anticipatory guidance presentation on the change of knowledge and attitude of pregnant women regarding oral healthcare in the mother, infant and toddler.in this quasi-experimental study, 90 pregnant women attended one health center in zahedan, iran; they were ...

Department of Medicine,1 Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Albany College of Pharmacy,2 Albany, New York, U.S.A.; Department of Peritoneal Dialysis,3 Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Manchester Royal Infirmary,4 Manchester, United Kingdom; Vanderbilt University Medical Center,5 Nashville, Tennessee; Baxter Healthc...

1 Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical School and Veterans Administration Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 2 Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Fujisawa Healthcare, Inc., Deerfield, Illinois, USA 4 Baylor University Medical Center and University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine, Dallas, Texas, USA 5 National ...

Affiliations: 1 Dimence Mental Health Care Center, Deventer, the Netherlands 2 Radboud university medical center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Department of Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 3 University Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium 4 Cen...

BACKGROUND An antimicrobial stewardship program was fully implemented at the University of Maryland Medical Center in July 2001 (beginning of fiscal year [FY] 2002). Essential to the program was an antimicrobial monitoring team (AMT) consisting of an infectious diseases-trained clinical pharmacist and a part-time infectious diseases physician that provided real-time monitoring of antimicrobial ...

Over the past two decades, Shanghai, the largest megacity in China, has been coping with unprecedented growth of its economy and population while overcoming previous underinvestment in the health system by the central and local governments. We study the evolution of Shanghai’s healthcare system by analyzing “Avoidable Mortality” (AM) – deaths amenable to public health and healthcare interventio...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to assess the general acceptability and to assess domains of potential effect of a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and at-risk urban youth. METHODS Thirteen-to twenty-one-year-old youth were recruited from the pediatric primary care clinic of an urban tertiary care hospital to partic...

Background. Recent reports suggest that metallo-β-lactamase (MBL)-producing Enterobacter cloacae increases as a pathogen of healthcare-associated infections in Japan. Bacteremia caused by MBL-producing E. cloacae is a major concern due to the resistance to most β-lactams including carbapenems. However, little is known about MBL-producing E. cloacae bacteremia in patients with cancer. The aim of...