Breaking bad news is one of the most burdensome tasks physicians face in their everyday practice. It becomes even more challenging in the context of HIV+ patients because of stigma and discrimination. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the quality of giving HIV seroconversion news according to SPIKES protocol. Numbers of 154 consecutive HIV+ patients from Imam Khomeini Hospital testing...

OBJECTIVE To examine published evidence on intravenous admixture preparation errors (IAPEs) in healthcare settings. METHODS Searches were conducted in three electronic databases (January 2005 to April 2017). Publications reporting rates of IAPEs and error types were reviewed and categorised into the following groups: component errors, dose/calculation errors, aseptic technique errors and comp...

IN THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE TITLE COMPOUND [SYSTEMATIC NAME: 1-ethyl-6-fluoro-4-oxo-7-(piperazin-4-ium-1-yl)-1,4-dihydro-quinoline-3-carboxyl-ate sesquihydrate], C(16)H(18)FN(3)O(3)·1.42H(2)O, N-H⋯O and O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds assemble the mol-ecules in a two-dimensional layered corrugated sheet structure parallel to the b axis. The water mol-ecules are disordered [occupancies 0.741 (11) and 0...

The comorbid psychopathology that is well-established in ethnoracially diverse OEF/OIF/OND veterans also often coincides with other problems (e.g., legal and social). To mitigate the clinical side of these types of difficulties, the Veteran Administration Health Care Systems offers a wide range of mental health services. This article draws on an evidenced-based literature review to explore fact...

As the concepts of evidence-based health care become entwined into pharmacy practice, it is interesting to watch the use and monitoring of once-daily aminoglycosides (ODA) evolve. Many years ago, the monitoring of aminoglycoside serum concentrations was an inroad that allowed us, as hospital pharmacists, to get up on the wards and become directly involved in patient care. Fortunately, this prac...

The article examines Cate Tiernan’s ‘Wicca’ series. This series and the ‘Circle of Three’ books by Isobel Bird explore the experiences of teenage girls who embrace the pagan religion, Wicca. The texts reflect the growing interest in spirituality expressed by many young people and extend the literary representation of witchcraft. Tiernan produces stories of spiritual growth entwined with fantasy...

Tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease have been closely entwined since the early years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The 2 conditions overlap in their epidemiologic characteristics and clinical manifestations and are both clothed in stigma. They individually carry the risk of creating social, economic, and political instability, which is markedly worsened when they affect...

A formal model of the structure of information is presented in five axioms which define identity, containment, and joins of infons. Joins are shown to be commutative, associative, provide inverses of infons, and, potentially, have many identity elements, two of which are multiplicative and additive. Those two types of join are distributive. The other identity elements are for operators on entwi...

We introduce Yetter-Drinfeld modules over a weak Hopf algebra H, and show that the category of Yetter-Drinfeld modules is isomorphic to the center of the category of H-modules. The categories of left-left, left-right, right-left and right-right Yetter-Drinfeld modules are isomorphic as braided monoidal categories. Yetter-Drinfeld modules can be viewed as weak DoiHopf modules, and, a fortiori, a...