Children with medical complexity are a subset of patients with special health care needs whose "health and quality of life depend on integrating health care between a primary care medical home, tertiary care services, and other important loci of care such as transitional care facilities, rehabilitation units, the home, the school, and other community based settings," according to Cohen et al. T...

This article describes a program developed to improve the process of planned induction of labour and to reduce the rates of inappropriate induction. The setting is a tertiary-care maternity hospital in urban Vancouver, BC, in which 7000 deliveries take place annually. Approximately 65% of these can be considered primary care; the remainder are secondary- or tertiary-level cases. Continuous qual...

Aim: To determine the antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Gram positive organisms isolated from cases of nosocomial infections in a pediatric ICU. Setting: This study was carried out from November 2009 to September 2010 on 200 samples taken from patients in pediatric ICU of a tertiary care hospital, in the Department of Microbiology, Basic Medical Sciences Institute, Jinnah Postgraduate Medic...

Objective: To assess the association of Depression with Chronic Low back pain. Methodology: In this cross-sectional investigation, 169 participants a mean age 54.1 years were studied at PN Shifa medical outpatient department in Karachi, Pakistan. The research was conducted over three-month period, from June to August 2020, using non-probability convenience sampling approach. severity low pain (...