background: the infants, hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu), engage with problems from admission to discharge, exploring of which ensures their safe transition. the purpose of this study was to identify the factors that influence infant’s transition from the nicu to home. materials and methods: a qualitative study was used for identifying the factors that affect infant’s tr...

Introduction. The article explores the characteristics of professional environment penitentiary staff, in particular, work contradictions, risks and uncertainties. Aim. To study manifestation extreme situations institutions to determine staff's psychological readiness for Methods. Theoretical analysis, classification, systematization, generalization relevant research findings available scientif...

Patients who misuse substances present in inordinate numbers for emergency department (ED) services. Therefore, EDs are an important environment for identifying, intervening and connecting patients with treatment and recovery support to improve patient health and reduce healthcare utilization. EDs have largely depended on external funding or additional personnel to execute SBIRT. Our aim was to...

Evidence-based screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) programs focusing on drug and alcohol use have successfully been implemented in a variety of general medical settings. Such programs require adaptations to function effectively in a high-volume hospital emergency department (ED) setting. We describe implementation and training procedures used in the sixsite National...

OBJECTIVE To assess health-care worker (HCW) awareness, interest and engagement in quality improvement (QI) in HIV care sites in Tanzania. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey distributed in May 2009. SETTING Sixteen urban HIV care sites in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1 year after the introduction of a quality management program. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred seventy-nine HCWs (direct care, clinical sup...

Tinnitus may be defined as the conscious perception of sound or noise, without the presence of external acoustic stimulation. Given the damage caused by tinnitus and the lack of effective treatment, alternatives are necessary to rehabilitate subjects with tinnitus. There is an assumption that auditory training (AT) could lead to a plastic reorganization of this system, thus promoting an improve...

When epidemic cholera appeared in Haiti in October 2010, the medical community there had virtually no experience with the disease and needed rapid training as the epidemic spread throughout the country. We developed a set of training materials specific to Haiti and launched a cascading training effort. Through a training-of-trainers course in November 14-15, 2010, and department-level training ...

OBJECTIVE Emergency departments are high-risk structures. The objective was to analyse the functioning of an experience feedback committee (EFC), a security management tool for the analysis of incidents in a medical department. METHODS We conducted a descriptive study based on the analysis of the written documents produced by the EFC between November 2009 and May 2012. We performed a double a...