in a thousands beds general hospital affiliated to the tehran university, long-standing infestations of insects such as cockroaches, flies, mosquitoes and rat were found as a result of vicious circles and substandard clearing which are due to not well trained and drilled personnel of contracting agency, out of work condition of two incinerators, quasti-administrative aspects of their program on...

abstract background: workplace exposures as in clinical work can cause disorders. some organ systems are at risk. this work may be a risk factor for early symptoms of menopause. the objective of this study was to compare the early symptoms of menopause between hospital personnel who work in clinical and office settings. materials and methods: this was a historical cohort study conducted on clin...

UNLABELLED Visual assessment of surfaces may not be enough to document the level of cleanliness in the hospital setting. It is necessary to introduce quantitative methods to document the results of this practice. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of hospital terminal cleaning procedures, using an adenosine triphosphate (ATP) bioluminescence method in a teaching hospital. METHOD During 2008...

Improving productivity in emergency services and managing limited resources of emergency room(ER) are key challenges for health managers of oil industry. One critical and costly resource is ER personnel  and its lack can lead to long queue of patients. Thus appropriate scheduling for nurses and physicians can help ER managers to  get maximum benefit of their current human resource and reduce th...

BACKGROUND . This study is a description of an Internal Medicine outreach appointment in western KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) from 2007 to mid-2014, facilitated by the transport services of the Red Cross Air Mercy Service (AMS) and funded by the KZN-Department of Health (KZN-DOH). The hospital visits represented 'multifaceted' as opposed to 'simple' outreach. METHODS The AMS database of outreach visit...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Monthly breast self-examination (BSE) has been presented as one of the best screening methods available. The aim of this study was to compare effects of both direct and indirect methods of teaching of BSE on knowledge and attitudes of nursing and midwifery personnel. Materials and Methods: The present study was performed on 89 nursin...

This article is intended as a generic guide to evidence-based airway management for all categories of pre-hospital personnel. It is based on a review of relevant literature but the majority of the studies have not been performed under realistic, pre-hospital conditions and the recommendations are therefore based on a low level of evidence (D). The advice given depends on the qualifications of t...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between the difficulty in hospital acceptance at the scene by emergency medical service (EMS) personnel and prehospital demographic factors and reasons for EMS calls. DESIGN A retrospective, observational study. SETTING Osaka City, Japan. PARTICIPANTS A total of 100 649 patients transported to medical institutions by EMS from January 2013 to Decem...