The purpose of this study was to evaluate effectiveness of an advance, at-home chlorhexidine-impregnated skin preparation cloth in decreasing the incidence of deep periprosthetic hip arthroplasty infections. Arthroplasty surgeons at the senior author's institution provided their patients with chlorhexidine-impregnated single-use cloths for use at home the night before and the morning of surgery...

In recent years, more and more researchers try to make Microsoft Kinect and Augmented Reality (AR) into real lives. In this paper, we try to utilize both Kinect and AR to build a dynamic fitting room. We can automatically measure the clothes size of a user in popular brands or different country standards. A user can utilize gesture to select cloths for fitting. Our proposed system will project ...

In this study we have proposed an integrated inventory model for two products having fixed demand. One of the aforementioned products is assumed to be an ingredient for the other product and having an independent demand in the market. The output of the proposed model is the economic level for producing the products with minimum costs. Considering the relations among parameters in the model, the...

WearGuard is a direct marketer and retailer of uniforms and work cloths, v^hich relies primarily on phone orders for sales. For this purpose it maintains a series of toll-free "800-number" lines, known as WATS lines, to receive its incoming calls. These lines are of several types, where each type serves a different portion of the country and has a different usage fee. In this paper we determine...

INTRODUCTION Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) can cause serious infections in vulnerable, immunocompromised patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this article, we summarise current data on epidemiology, detection, treatment and prevention of VRE. RESULTS VRE was first isolated in Singapore in 1994 and until 2004 was only sporadically encountered in our public hospitals. After 2 outbreak...

BACKGROUND Hospitals are trying to improve patient hand hygiene by providing handwashing products at the bedside. Patients' compliance with handwashing depends on their satisfaction with hygiene products but no one has looked at which products patients prefer. Research on this will help hospitals target hand hygiene more appropriately and effectively. AIM To explore patient satisfaction with ...