The increasing frequency of natural hazards continues to stretch the operation hospital services. Hospitals are expected remain fully operational during and in immediate aftermath serve those who need healthcare. Despite substantial research work on preparedness, hospitals still vulnerable and, many cases, incapable responding adequately due issues such as damage infrastructure shortage staff. ...

BACKGROUND Informing health systems and monitoring hospital performances using administrative data sets, mainly hospital discharge data coded according to International-Classification-Diseases-9edition-Clinical-Modifiers (ICD9-CM), is now commonplace in several countries, but the reliability of diagnostic coding of acute ischemic stroke in the routine practice is uncertain. This study aimed at ...

BACKGROUND Asian dust events are caused by dust storms that originate in the deserts of China and Mongolia and drift across East Asia. We hypothesized that the dust events would increase incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests by triggering acute events or exacerbating chronic diseases. METHODS We analyzed the Utstein-Style data collected in 2005 to 2008 from seven prefectures covering a...

OBJECTIVE To study the incidence, outcome and potentially avoidable causes of inpatient cardiopulmonary arrests in a hospital with a "mature" rapid response system (RRS). DESIGN Retrospective observational study of all cardiopulmonary arrest events in 2005. SETTING University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital, a 730-bed academic, urban, tertiary care adult hospital in the U...

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OBJECTIVE The occurrence of drug adverse events in hospital settings is high and generates cost excess. The purpose of the study was to identify drug-related events during hospital admissions and to estimate their prevalence. METHODS A retrospective study was carried out in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil. Hospitalizations from the Brazilian Health System's national hospital ...