BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Appropriate patient placement at the time of admission to avoid unplanned transfers to the ICU and codes outside of the ICU is an important safety goal for many institutions. The objective of this study was to determine if the overall rate of unplanned ICU transfers within 12 hours of admission to the inpatient medical/surgical unit was higher for direct admissions comp...

The government of Hong Kong grasped the political nettle of control of tobacco in the early 1980s, since when a comprehensive policy of legislation, education, and publicity, together with large increases in taxation on tobacco products, has been introduced. This has led to almost all of the population of Hong Kong having knowledge of the harmful effects of tobacco and of antismoking measures t...

literatures that focus on the risk factors of unintended pregnancy among married women are limited especially in developing countries. the aim of this study was to determine the predictors of unintended pregnancy in a west region of iran.this case-control study was conducted from september to november 2011 in hamadan city, western iran. a stratified cluster random sampling method was used for d...

CONTEXT Although Guatemalan law permits induced abortion only to save a woman's life, many women obtain abortions, often under unsafe conditions and in response to an unintended pregnancy. Recent studies indicate that unsafe abortion is a key factor contributing to maternal morbidity and mortality in the country, but no national data on the incidence of abortion exist. METHODS Surveys of all ...

Residents of towns and villages in Arctic Alaska live on "the front line of climate change." Some communities face immediate threats from erosion and flooding associated with thawing permafrost, increasing river flows, and reduced sea ice protection of shorelines. The term climigration, referring to migration caused by climate change, originally was coined for these places. Although initial app...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how pregnancy planning, time to conception, and infertility treatment influence cognitive development at ages 3 and 5. DESIGN Prospective population based cohort study. SETTING Millennium Cohort Study in the United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS 18,818 children recruited at 9 months and followed up at 3 and 5 years. 11,790 singletons with available data on pregnancy, cogni...

Unplanned therapy for extremity osteosarcoma can result in erroneous surgical procedures and lack of neoadjuvant chemotherapy before the first operation. Our aim was to compare the prognosis between patients with extremity osteosarcoma who received unplanned therapy and those who received standard treatment. This was a retrospective review of patients with extremity osteosarcoma who received ap...

background: despite expanded coverage of family planning in iran, unwanted pregnancy is a common problem. the aim of this study was to explore women’s experiences of unwanted pregnancy in shahroud public health centers. methods: purposive sampling was conducted by means of focus group discussions (fgds) and in-depth interviews and by a semi-constructed questionnaire in this qualitative research...