The goals of World Rugby’s strategic plan, 2010 are to ‘Protect and promote Rugby, its values, spirit and ethos’ and to ‘Drive player welfare best practice’. These values are under question with the publication of misleading data on injury risks in its SportsWise Survey. In response to calls earlier this year to the UK government for a ban on tackle and contact in the school game, World Rugby h...

UNLABELLED As the number of children receiving care in out-of-home settings increases in the United States, the risk of injury in such settings has become the subject of intense research. OBJECTIVES This study examined the relative safety of out-of-home care compared with care in a child's own home. METHODS This community based prospective cohort study of 656 families in three adjacent coun...

medical ethics is a realm where four important subjects of philosophy, medicine, theology and law are covered. physicians and philosophers cooperation in this area will have great efficiency in the respective ethical rules formation. in addition to respect the autonomy of the patient, physician's obligation is to ensure that the medical intervention has benefit for the patient and the harm is m...

This paper places on record the clinical activity of the hospital facilities run by 22 Field Hospital on Exercise SAIF SEREEA II in Oman from August to November 2001. There were 1322 episodes of illness resulting in a hospital admission. The mean rate of admission was 1.96 patients per thousand per day (SD 13.62). The main causes of admission were gastrointestinal illness, conditions related to...

frequency of medication errors and its reporting according to self- report by nurses in hospitals of khoy city shams sh[1], bagherieh f[2], feizi a[3], baghaei r[4], hashemlo l[5] received: 4 may , 2012 accepted: 19 jun , 2012  abstract:background & aims: medication errors are one of the important challenges of health care systems worldwide. it is also one of the threatening factors of patient ...

BACKGROUND Trauma tertiary surveys (TTS) are advocated to reduce the rate of missed injuries in hospitalized trauma patients. Moreover, the missed injury rate can be a quality indicator of trauma care performance. Current variation of the definition of missed injury restricts interpretation of the effect of the TTS and limits the use of missed injury for benchmarking. Only a few studies have sp...

Background and Objective: Needle stick injuries (NSIs) are a common potential risk for healthcare workers. The aim of this study was to evaluate preventive interventions against needle stick injury incidents among HCWs.   Methods: Seven hospitals in the Iranian Chaharmahal-VA-Bakhtiari Province were surveyed between March 2008 to March 2013. Data of the needle stick injuries of healthcare wor...

CONTEXT The Institute of Medicine has recommended establishing mandatory error reporting systems for hospitals and other health settings. OBJECTIVE To examine the opinions and experiences of hospital leaders with state reporting systems. DESIGN AND SETTING Survey of chief executive and chief operating officers (CEOs/COOs) from randomly selected hospitals in 2 states with mandatory reporting...

BACKGROUND Patient-care workers are frequently exposed to sharps injuries, which can involve the risk of serious illness. Underreporting of these injuries can compromise prevention efforts. METHODS We linked survey responses of 1,572 non-physician patient-care workers with the Occupational Health Services (OHS) database at two academic hospitals. We determined whether survey respondents who s...