BACKGROUND The medical record is used to document patient's medical history, illnesses and treatment procedures. The information inside is useful when all needed information is documented properly. Medical care providers in Iran have complained of low quality of Medical Records. This study was designed to evaluate the quality of the Medical Records at the university hospital in Tabriz, Iran. ...

The Drexel neurology clerkship experience can vary from large groups at a university hospital inpatient unit to smaller groups at private physician offices. Evaluations are based on the site director's subjective assessment and performance on the National Board of Medical Examiners neurology shelf examination. We are developing a standardized online clinical neurology course and quiz for the wh...

Blood and body fluid Exposure is a major occupational safety problems for health care workers. Therefor We conducted a descriptive and retrospective study to identify the characteristics of blood exposure accidents in health care settings which lasted five years (2005-2009) at the two university hospitals of Sfax. We have 593 blood exposure accidents in health care settings 152 (25.6%) health p...

A high degree of topical diversity is often considered to be an important characteristic of interesting text documents. A recent proposal for measuring topical diversity identifies three elements for assessing diversity: words, topics, and documents as collections of words. Topic models play a central role in this approach. Using standard topic models for measuring diversity of documents is sub...

3 To my parents, for their endless support 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to acknowledge the excellent the guidance and support of the committee chair, would also like to acknowledge Diego Arguea and Tom Hiles, for their significant collaboration in this research. In addition, I would like to thank Matthew O'Brien, Darrell Schneider, and the City of Gainesville for their support during the fiel...

Neil Winterburn Peggy Gregory Dan Fitton School of Computing School of Computing School of Computing Engineering & Physical Science Engineering & Physical Science Engineering & Physical Science University of Central Lancashire University of Central Lancashire University of Central Lancashire Preston, PR1 2HE, Preston, PR1 2HE, Preston, PR1 2HE, [email protected] [email protected] dbf...

OBJECTIVES Using the findings of incident investigations to improve patient safety management is well-established and mandatory under Swedish law. This study seeks to identify the mechanisms behind successful implementation of the recommendations of incident investigations. SETTING This study was based in a university hospital in southern Sweden. PARTICIPANTS A sample of 55 incident investi...

I give a brief review of final state interactions in meson decays. I describe possible effects of FSI in K, D and B systems, paying particular attention to the description of the heavy meson decays. Available theoretical methods for dealing with the effects of FSI are discussed.

This study aimed at analyzing the family participation in the premature assistance in a university hospital neonatal ICU. Data were collected from the participant observation. Results showed that despite of the mother's presence in the daily life of their premature children placed in a hospital, family isn't inserted in the work process and mothers are the only ones who take part of the cares. ...

BACKGROUND The occurrence of communicable diseases (CD) depends on exposure to contagious persons. The effects of exposure to CD are delayed in time and contagious persons remain contagious for several days during which their contagiousness varies. Moreover when multiple exposures occur, it is difficult to know which exposure is associated with the CD. METHODS A statistical model at the indiv...