Introduction / objectives Our hospital’s blood culture contamination rate within adult wards reached 5.2% prior to the introduction of adult blood culture packs. In addition, during 2009 the hospital’s blood culture collection rate was 31 blood culture bottles per 1000 patient days. The aim of the study was to assess the impact of introducing a blood culture collection pack on the rate of blood...

Introduction: The Public Health Information and Epidemiological Cell (PHIEC) of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) utilizes the Geographic System (GIS) enabled integrated surveillance for collection, integration, analysis reporting geo-referenced epidemiological diseases in Bangalore city. Dengue fever is an emerging disease there are minimum studies conducted India about GIS dengue syst...

A urine sample is vital in older patients with pyrexia or acute confusion, and commonly directs clinicians towards a source of infection. Not only can the organism be identified, but sensitivities to antibiotics can also guide prescribing. A high number of urine samples were not being processed on the medicine for older people wards at St. James's Hospital due to incomplete hand-written request...

BACKGROUND Considerable investments are being made in commercial electronic prescribing systems (e-prescribing) in many countries. Few studies have measured or evaluated their effectiveness at reducing prescribing error rates, and interactions between system design and errors are not well understood, despite increasing concerns regarding new errors associated with system use. This study evaluat...

Child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient wards were established because young people with mental illness are often poorly served by admission to general psychiatric wards owing to needs that differ from those adults, different skills needed by staff, and difficulty ensuring young people’s safety. The admission of young people with mental illness to paediatric wards also raises concerns about ...