BACKGROUND Powdered infant formula (PIF) is not a sterile product, but this information appears to be poorly diffused among child caregivers. Parents and child care workers may behave in an unsafe manner when handling PIF. METHODS This study involved parents and child care workers in the 24 municipal child care centres of Palermo. Knowledge and self-reported practices about PIF handling were ...

BACKGROUND Within the health system, limited attention is given to supporting the fertility and parenting desires on HIV-positive people. In this study, we explore health care providers' knowledge and perspectives on safer conception and alternate parenting strategies for HIV-positive people. METHODS Between November 2007 and January 2008, in-depth interviews were conducted with 28 health car...

Sharps-related injuries carry the risk of serious blood borne infection. A systematic review was undertaken to consider the evidence related to safer sharps devices and their impact on needlestick injury reduction within the healthcare sector. The review sought to determine whether: n the use of safer sharps devices could reduce the incidence of sharps injury; n dedicated educational / training...

The NHS relies on a variety of different staff, medicines and equipment in order to provide health care. Coupled with the volume of patients being treated, this can make it difficult to maintain safety. A new report from the National Audit Office looks at what can be done to make the NHS a safer environment for patients.

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 18 January 2010 192 2 63-64 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au Editorials reduce preventable harm to patients. However, a have not been measurably reduced. Many ackn barriers to change are embedded in the culture a health care. So, 15 years after the QAHCS and 5 follow-up editorial in the Journal by Wilson and Van noting that he...

The simplicity and elegance of the Linda programming model is based on its single, global, typeless tuple space. However, these virtues come at a cost. First, the tuple space can be an impediment to scalable high performance. Second, the \black box" nature of the tuple space makes it an inherently dangerous data structure, prone to many types of programming errors. Blossom is a C++ version of L...

Improving the way opioids are prescribed through clinical practice guidelines can ensure patients have access to safer, more effective chronic pain treatment while reducing the number of people who misuse, abuse, or overdose from these drugs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed and published the Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain to provide recommendat...