Introduction In 2018, the first Medically Supervised Injecting Room in Melbourne, Australia was officially opened. This study assessed whether this facility attracted people who inject drugs, were socially vulnerable, and engaged drug-related behaviors associated with increased morbidity mortality risk. Methods a cross-sectional analysis of frequency use during 18 months after opening (July 201...

Purpose: The primary purpose of this study was to compare intraoperative and post-operative complication rates for upper extremity surgical cases performed on a standard operating room (OR) table with similar done typical hospital stretcher. Secondary measures reviewed included time, turnover total OR blood loss, tourniquet postoperative complications. Methods: Using our institution’s electroni...

Indigenous peoples worldwide continue to face health inequities compared non-Indigenous populations. Frameworks like cultural safety can be used mitigate these inequities; however, this is not widely implemented in healthcare settings. Thus, additional research into barriers providing culturally safe care are critical. To address need, we examined the existing for Canada, and Māori Aotearoa New...

Background: Patient safety is one of the essential principles of health care and evaluation of patient safety culture is a motive to provide safe conditions for patient care. Regarding the invasive procedures and the necessity of special attention to patient safety in the operating room, this study aimed to determine the patient safety culture from the perspective of operating room personnel. ...

BACKGROUND Context conditioning has been suggested to model clinical anxiety, but context, as manipulated in animal models, has not been translated to human studies. A virtual environment might prove to be the ideal tool for innovative experimental paradigms to study explicitly cued fear and contextual anxiety in humans. METHODS Subjects were guided through a virtual environment that consiste...

the membrane separation technology by relying on microfiltration ultrafiltration, and reverse osmosis methods are becoming more important among consulting engineers, designers of environmental pollution control system, and industrial factories. the advantages of this technology together with its emphasis on recycling the fluid to the system and reusing the membranes have caused the membranes to...

We propose and analyze a heterogeneous, multigroup, susceptible-infectivesusceptible (SIS) sexually transmitted disease (STD) model where the desirability and acceptability in partnership formations are functions of the infected individuals. We derive explicit formulas for the epidemic thresholds, prove the existence and uniqueness of the equilibrium states for the two-group model and provide a...