Patients with central nervous system (CNS) infections are increasingly treated with intravenous antimicrobials outside the hospital, but the safety and problems associated with this therapy have not been well defined. To examine this issue, we reviewed 68 cases in which outpatient intravenous antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) was received through our physician office-based infusion clinic. All infec...

background and purpose: experience and clinical competence are the important factors affecting the level of dignity and respect for nurses. this study aimed to evaluate the observance rate of respect for nurses from physicians, colleagues, patients and their family members. methods: this study was conducted on 200 nurses selected by census sampling from hospitals of sanandaj, kurdistan, iran in...

OBJECTIVES Little research has focused on preventing harm from errors that occur in primary care. We studied mitigation of patient harm by analysing error reports from family physicians' offices. METHODS The data for this analysis come from reports of testing process errors identified by family physicians and their office staff in eight practices in the American Academy of Family Physicians N...

Retail clinics are privately owned clinics typically staffed solely by nurse practitioners and found inside retail stores such as Target, Wal‐mart, and CVS Pharmacy. Since the first retail clinic was established in 2000, over 1,000 sites have opened in thirty‐seven states across the country [4]. Some reports estimate that by 2012, over 6,000 retail clinics will operate in the US [3]. Despite th...

BACKGROUND Rotavirus vaccine is recommended for all infants in Canada. To evaluate the logistics of implementing a universal rotavirus vaccination program, we compared the effectiveness of program implementation in jurisdictions with either a physician-administered or public health nurse-administered program. METHODS All infants born between October 1, 2010 and September 30, 2012 in Prince Ed...

results: the finding revealed that intention of family physicians to reduce referral rate of patients to specialists was significantly related to two theory-based variables of subjective norms (r = 0.38, p < 0.001) and perceived behavioral control (r = 0.43, p < 0.001), and not to attitudes. a stepwise regression entering direct measures of the theory variables explained 35% of the variance on ...

improper drug prescription by physicians due to wrong diagnosis, wrong drug choise or other causes will waste national funds. the annual drug costs in iran is 900 billions rials. with approvement of prescription, it can be reduced to 500 billions rials. effective factors in costs reduction are: 1) increasing medical knowledge and persistent education of physicians. 2) spending more time for eac...