Honors and Awards • Yahoo! Graduate Teaching Award, 2013 • Runner-up at Cornell Startup Weekend, 2012 • SIGMOD 2011 Best Paper Award for “Entangled Queries: Enabling Declarative Datadriven Coordination” • Certificate of Achievement for outstanding contributions as a Teaching Assistant, Fall 2010 • Autodesk Fellowship, Cornell University, 2009-2010 • Bigyan Sinha Memorial Award, 2009 • O. P. Jin...

BACKGROUND Reduction of maternal mortality ratio by two-thirds by 2015 is an international development goal with unrestricted access to high quality emergency obstetric care services promoted towards the attainment of that goal. The objective of this qualitative study was to assess the availability and quality of emergency obstetric care services in Gambia's main referral hospital. METHODS Fr...

To cite: Lapointe-Shaw L, Bell CM. BMJ Qual Saf 2014;23:180–182. Numerous studies have now described the ‘weekend effect’ and its negative impact on timeliness of inpatient care and mortality. Patients presenting with numerous medical and surgical problems experience better outcomes if they happen to arrive in hospital on a workday versus a weekend day. Researchers have highlighted the problem ...

conclusions geographic accessibility of pharmacies at night and on holidays has to be addressed by provincial health policymakers. materials and methods the analysis was based on straight-line distance measurements. we considered 150, 300, 450, 600, and 750 m for pedestrians, and 1, 2, and 3 km for driving accessibility as the acceptable distances. we calculated the number and percentage of hou...

Validation of AirPhysio Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure Device – Retail Short Paper Report Prepared by Professor Norman Morris, School of Allied Health Science and Menzies Health, Institute Griffith University Validation of AirPhysio Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure Device – Short Paper Report Prepared by Professor Norman Morris, School of Allied Health Science and Menzies Heal...

INTRODUCTION This discussion paper reviews and synthesises the literature on simulated learning environment (SLE) from allied health sciences, medical and nursing in general and audiology specifically. The focus of the paper is on discussing the use of high-fidelity (HF) SLE and describing the challenges for developing a HF SLE for clinical audiology training. METHODS Through the review of th...

### Background The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has highlighted the need access to specialist palliative care seven days a week in order improve quality of care, experience outcomes patients their families. (NICE, 2004; NICE, 2015) Little is known about demand seven-day Palliative Clinical Nurse Specialist (PCCNS) service small island \~85 000 residents. Generalist s...

Many professionals work closely with physicians and nurses to provide healthcare that is safe, patient-centered, efficient, equitable, timely, and effective. These professionals represent many and varied allied health disciplines. Each allied health professional is ethically accountable for bringing a theoretically-sound and evidence-based approach to problem-solving in healthcare delivery. Alt...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to identify areas where allied health assistants (AHAs) are not working to their full scope of practice in order to improve the effectiveness of the allied health workforce. METHODS Qualitative data collected via focus groups identified suitable AHA tasks and a quantitative survey with allied health professionals (AHPs) measured the magnitude of work...