Department of Medicine, North Shore Hospital, Waitemata District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand, LabPlus, Auckland, New Zealand, Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Department of Renal Medicine, North Shore Hospital, Waitemata District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand and Department of Med...

Title: Listening to their voices: understanding rural women's perceptions of good delivery care at the Mibilizi District Hospital in Rwanda Authors: Zack Ndirima ([email protected]) Florian Neuhann ([email protected]) Claudia Beiersmann ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 12 Jan 2018 Author’s response to reviews: BMWH-D-16-00406 Listening to their voices: understan...

This article reports on a project to update policy and practice in pressure-ulcer prevention in a district general hospital. A literature review was undertaken on pressure-ulcer prevention to identify the best methods for use in a district general hospital and to bring practice in line with current evidence. The literature review covered evidence-based tools for risk assessment, treatment proto...

Correspondence to Xuan Zhang, Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, No. 1 Shuaifuyuan, Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100730, China; [email protected]; and Zhaohui Zhu, MD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & P...

In Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR), the mortality rate among children under 5 years of age is high (131 per 1000 live births in 2003), partly as a consequence of poor basic services provided by district hospitals. A simplified management tool, "Ten MR (Minimum Requirement)", was developed in Lao PDR. The tool assured the quality of health services including the processes of planning, imp...

Erratum Following publication of the original article [1] it was brought to our attention that the sequence of the author affiliations was incorrectly ordered. In the original article the sequence appears as follows: Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, No.5 Beixiange Street, Xicheng District, Beijing 100053, China Graduate School, Beijing University of Chinese Medic...

Although child mortality rates have dropped in India over the last two decades, neonatal mortality rates continue to be high. In this paper we use data from the unique nationally representative survey of India 2008 District Level Household Survey (DLHS-3) to analyse the links between neonatal mortality at the household level and household’s access to health facilities. Our empirical analysis un...

BACKGROUND Among many Kenyan rural communities, access to in-patient healthcare services is seriously constrained. It is important to understand who has ready access to the facilities and services offered and what factors prevent those who do not from doing so. AIM To identify factors affecting time of access of in-patient healthcare services at a rural district hospital in Kenya. SETTING W...

BACKGROUND Quality hospital care is important in ensuring that the needs of severely ill children are met to avert child mortality. However, the quality of hospital care for children in developing countries has often been found poor. As the first step of a country road map for improving hospital care for children, we assessed the baseline situation with respect to the quality of care provided t...

A Novel De Novo Microdeletion Spanning the SYNGAP1 Gene on the Short Arm of Chromosome 6 Associated With Mental Retardation Ana Cristina V. Krepischi, Carla Rosenberg, Silvia S. Costa, John A. Crolla, Shuwen Huang, and Angela M. Vianna-Morgante* Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Biosciences, University of S~ao Paulo, S~ao Paulo, Brazil AC Camargo Cancer Hospital, S~a...