1School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia. 2Department of Dermatology, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 235, Taipei, China. 3School of Public Health, College of Public Health and Nutrition, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 110, Taipei, China. 4Department of Dermatology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei 110, Taipei, China. 5Departme...

a case of cryptococcal meningitis is reported in a 26 year old man by the medical mycology department of the school of public health, tehran university. the patient with the symptom of meningitis was admitted to the hospital with the symptom of meningitis was admitted to the hospital. lumbar puncture was performed in the hospital. after direct examination and culture of cerebrospinal fluid, cry...

Senior hospital executives responding to a 2005 national telephone survey conducted for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) report that Hospital Compare and other public reports on hospital quality measures have helped to focus hospital leadership attention on quality matters. They also report increased investment in quality improvement (QI) projects and in people and systems to ...

BACKGROUND A central aim of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is protection for all against the cost of illness. In a low income country like Bangladesh the cost burden of health care in tertiary facilities is likely to be significant for most citizens. This cost of an episode of illness is a relatively unexplored policy issue in Bangladesh. The objective of this study was to estimate an outpatie...