INTRODUCTION Comparative analysis by Spanish Regional Communities (RC) of indicators related to morbidity and staffing in psychiatric care hospital over a period of time (1980-2004) marked by the initiation and development of deinstitutionalization policies and handover of powers to RC. METHODOLOGY Longitudinal study. Descriptive analysis of variables, broken down by RC, related to psychiatri...

introduction: implant bed preparation with laser is taken into consideration owing to the increased interest in use of lasers in hard tissue surgery. the purpose of this study is to determine the deviations in the position and inclination between the planned and prepared implant beds with erbium, chromium doped yttrium scandium gallium garnet (er,cr: ysgg) laser using stereolithographic (sla) s...

Objective: To depict the magnitude and spectrum of childhood injuries attributable to falls from bunk beds in comparison with conventional beds and to outline sociodemographic risk factors and injury characteristics. Study design: Case-control investigation. Setting: Accident and emergency departments of four hospitals in Greece, namely a teaching children’s hospital and a trauma hospital in Gr...

BACKGROUND the design and use of bed rails has been contentious since the 1950s with benefits including safety, mobility support and access to bed controls and disadvantages associated with entrapment and restraint. OBJECTIVE to explore which bed designs and patient characteristics (mobility, cognitive status and age) influence the likelihood of rails being used on UK medical wards. METHOD ...

OBJECTIVE To assign responsibility for variations in small area hospitalization rates to specific hospitals and to evaluate the Roemer's Law in a way that does not artificially induce correlation between bed supply and utilization. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING We used data on hospitalizations and outpatient treatment for 15 medical conditions of nonmanaged care Part B eligible Medicare enrollee...

OBJECTIVE To depict the magnitude and spectrum of childhood injuries attributable to falls from bunk beds in comparison with conventional beds and to outline sociodemographic risk factors and injury characteristics. STUDY DESIGN Case-control investigation. SETTING Accident and emergency departments of four hospitals in Greece, namely a teaching children's hospital and a trauma hospital in G...

BACKGROUND National Health Systems managers have been subject in recent years to considerable pressure to increase concentration and allow mergers. This pressure has been justified by a belief that larger hospitals lead to lower average costs and better clinical outcomes through the exploitation of economies of scale. In this context, the opportunity to measure scale efficiency is crucial to ad...

in this research, the effect of using vermicompost on growth rate, fertility and characteristics oftomatoes has been studied. four vermicompost: soil mixture were supplied with ratios of 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, and 1:4 and also four different beds were provided. total of 24 small globe tomato plants were tested and in each bed combination, six tomato plants were embedded. rate of growth and yielding of ...