In Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), the cause of death is not registered in death reports. As a result, the government cannot produce official reports that show mortality according to cause of death. This study aimed to report the underlying cause of death in a tertiary general hospital (Mittaphab Hospital) in Vientiane capital. Mittaphab hospital is a governmental teaching hospital ...

a short time if chaos is to be prevented. Many London clinicians and managers are disgruntled about the delay in capital programmes and the granting of trust status that this latest inquiry has brought. But Mr Waldegrave's move to go beyond the market and develop a strategic London wide approach should be greeted with relief. Properly executed, Sir Bernard's work should mean an end to the miasm...

OBJECTIVES Against the public health implications of untreated mental illness among general hospital inpatients, this study aimed firstly to examine hospital physicians' level of referral to a psychiatric service, and secondly, to explore the extent of these doctors' knowledge of psychiatric issues by comparing their reasons for referring patients with patients' final psychiatric diagnoses. M...

OBJECTIVE To explore clinician and family experiences of conflict in paediatric services, in order to map the trajectory of conflict escalation. DESIGN Qualitative interview study, employing extreme-case sampling. Interviews were analysed using an iterative thematic approach to identify common themes regarding the experience and escalation of conflict. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-eight health profe...

care To read the study on dementia care by Wolfs et al was a delight. They deserve a round of applause for not only conducting a trial in a very complex but essential service but also for demonstrating that an integrated multidisciplinary approach has a positive impact on dementia care. As a consultant old age psychiatrist in the English National Health Service, would I repeat this study? In th...

BACKGROUND A gap exists between the best evidence and practice with regards to surgical site infection (SSI) prevention. Awareness of evidence is the first step in knowledge translation. METHODS A web-based survey was distributed to 59 general surgeons and 68 residents at University of Toronto teaching hospitals. Five domains pertaining to SSI prevention with questions addressing knowledge of...

this study was carried out to find the extent of staphylococcal carriages including methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus mrsa in employee's of teaching university hospitals in yazd. nasal swabs of 742 employees in four different medical teaching hospitals in yazd were collected, and tested for detection of staphylococci strains. out of 742 employees, 94 (12.7%) were carrier of staphyloco...

Guidelines for the provision of physics support to nuclear medicine were published in 1999 by a joint working group of the British Institute of Radiology, the British Nuclear Medicine Society, and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. Following publication of the guidelines, a survey was conducted by the working group to gather data on the actual level of physicist support in UK...

care To read the study on dementia care by Wolfs et al was a delight. They deserve a round of applause for not only conducting a trial in a very complex but essential service but also for demonstrating that an integrated multidisciplinary approach has a positive impact on dementia care. As a consultant old age psychiatrist in the English National Health Service, would I repeat this study? In th...