BACKGROUND Numerous international policy drivers espouse the need to improve healthcare. The application of Improvement Science has the potential to restore the balance of healthcare and transform it to a more person-centred and quality improvement focussed system. However there is currently no accredited Improvement Science education offered routinely to healthcare students. This means that th...

The four major penal institutions for men in Washington state were surveyed in June 1983, to assess the quality of tuberculosis screening and the proportion of residents who were reactors. A total of 4,744 medical charts of current residents were reviewed of which 4,269 (90.0 percent) had skin test results recorded. The proportion of inmates residing in the four institutions during 1983 who wer...

This report documents the prompt, co-ordinated and effective public health response to a measles outbreak in Queensland in 2013. There were 17 cases in a large, high-security, regional correctional facility, a setting with unique challenges. Recommendations are provided to reduce the likelihood and magnitude of measles outbreaks in correctional facilities.

This paper proposes an artificial intelligence model to manage risks in healthcare institutions. uses a trendy data source, social media, and employs users’ interactions identify assess potential risks. It natural language processing techniques analyze the tweets of users produce vivid insights into types risk their magnitude. In addition, some big analysis techniques, such as classification, a...

The Global University System (GUS) [1] [Utsumi, et al, 2003] is a worldwide initiative to create advanced telecommunications infrastructure for access to educational resources across national and cultural boundaries for global peace. GUS aims to create a worldwide consortium of universities to provide the underdeveloped world with access to 21 Century education via broadband Internet technologi...

BEEK YOKE CHIN, AMIR MOHSENIN, SU XIA LI, AUGUSTINE M. K. CHOI, AND MARY E. CHOI Toxicological Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences, and Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21205; and Sections of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Conn...

Catheter-related bloodstream infection is one of the most serious complications of central venous access devices. Antimicrobial-coated catheters represent one novel strategy to prevent catheter-related bloodstream infection. A comprehensive economic evaluation is essential to guide informed decision-making regarding the adoption of this technology and its expected benefits in healthcare institu...

Due to significant differences in healthcare structure between the United States and Canada, there are unique barriers to adopting new medical technology in Canada. In this article, we describe our experience developing a transoral robotic surgery (TORS) program at Western University. Specifically, we outline the steps that were necessary to obtain institutional and multidisciplinary team appro...