OBJECTIVE To determine whether there is an association between the Primary Nursing Model and perceived quality of care. METHOD An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study in four hospital wards with Primary Nursing organization. Over a 12-month period, all the patients discharged from each ward were included in this study. The degree of development of Primary Nursing was measured by ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the microbial contamination of disinfectants and antiseptics in major hospitals on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. METHODS For this cross-sectional study, disinfectants and antiseptics were sampled from the pharmacy departments, the pediatric/neonatal wards, and the surgical wards of four hospitals. The samples were cultured for aerobic bacteria on nutrient agar using th...

background: regarding the close and continuous interaction of infertility staff with hopeless infertile couples and in the contrary the atmosphere of happiness especially in obstetric wards make a sense that considering anxiety and depression it would be a difference between these two wards. objective: the objective of this study is the comparison of the rate of depression and anxiety between t...

BACKGROUND Considering governmental scrutiny and financial constraints in medicine, the need for improved performance, which can provide acceptable care for medical consumers, leads to the conduct of new managerial methods to improve effectiveness. AIMS This study aimed to compare performance indicators of obstetrics and gynaecology teaching hospitals in Tabriz. METHOD A longitudinal, retro...

In making a study of the symptom of vomiting in the newborn and premature infant, the descriptions here mentioned and the conclusions drawn are based on observations made in the wards of the Universitiits Kinderklinik and the Maternity Wards of the Peham Frauenklinik at Vienna. Pirquet has instituted a method of recording by means of symbols the exact description of the act of vomiting so that ...