OBJECTIVE To determine the distribution and scope of nurse practitioner schemes in accident and emergency departments in England and Wales; to describe the caseloads of doctors and nurse practitioners on two representative days; and to estimate the number of patients managed by nurse practitioners in the year to 31 March 1991. DESIGN A postal survey of accident and emergency departments and a...

Valerio Cozzani, Ernesto Salzano, Michela Campedel, Martina Sabatini and Gigliola Spadoni Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, Mineraria e delle Tecnologie Ambientali, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combusti...

The accident factor identification and risk assessment is an essential requirement for prevention of major construction accidents in the construction project process. An integrated quantitative risk assessment (IQRA) method has been proposed in this paper to overcome the problems of difficult to quantify accident probability for construction industry. The proposed approach employs influence dia...

in order to study the epidemiology of accidents in tehran city, the author has collected and analysed records of more than 25,000 accident cases for the period 1960-61 from all available sources such as newspaper rapportages,nine major hospitals of tehran, forensic medicine department of ministry of justice, vital statistics department of ministry of health, labors' insurance organization, etc....