LEICESTER GENERAL INFIRMARY.

Audit of operational noise at the leicester royal infirmary aicu

Introduction Ambient noise and its impact on sleep is an important factor in the development of delirium [1]. Noise is a problem on intensive care units, being one of the main environmental stress inducing factors amongst patients [2]. A key source of noise is the signalling of alarms. As part of plans to decrease noise, we investigated the number and appropriateness of alarms sounded overnight...

Glenfield General Hospital Leicester

with error bars of 2 SD, the results may be seen in perspective (fig. 1, lower panel). The investigators described repeat testing for differences between the groups by Student's unpaired t test or by Mann— Whitney U test, and stated that they then confirmed the differences by analysis of variance or by Kruskal-Wallis. However, it is invalid to test repeatedly by Student's or by Mann-Whitney unl...

The Apothecaries of the General Infirmary at Leeds.

ON 20 May I 767, a meeting was held at the New Inn at Leeds to 'consider of the Expediency of an Infirmary'. It was unanimously agreed 'That a Parochial Infirmary in this Place will be of great Utility'. At a meeting in June it was further agreed that the proposed infirmary should serve not only the parish of Leeds but 'that the Infirmary intended to be erected be declared a General One' and it...

The history of the Derbyshire General Infirmary, 1810–1894

demise. The author stresses how a perception of corruption arose from the "politicisation of charity" (p. 85) at local and national level, and from the "marginalization of the parish" (p. 109), which had formerly served as the perpetual body for administering trusts. In Part II, the focus shifts to the voluntary societies that took over from endowed charity. Chapter 5 examines the antecedents o...

Leicester and smallpox: the Leicester method.