BACKGROUND Providing health care services in Africa is hampered by severe scarcity of personnel, medical supplies and financial funds. Consequently, managers of health care institutions are called to measure and improve the efficiency of their facilities in order to provide the best possible services with their resources. However, very little is known about the efficiency of health care facilit...

Medical records are considered to be a key element of a program of adequate veterinary care for animals used in research, teaching, and testing. However, prior to the release of the public statement on medical records by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM), the guidance that was available on the form and content of medical records used for the research setting was not con...

BACKGROUND Epidemiological studies have shown that depression is common in institutional settings. However, the symptomatology of depression in this group has not been compared to those living in the community. AIMS To estimate the prevalence of depression and depressive symptomatology in participants living in institutions and compare these to people living in other settings. METHOD The Me...

The purpose of this article is to describe a model of education about hepatitis C virus prevention tested in a county correctional facility. The Teach One Method and Relational Communication models inform this work. Using a one-group pretest-posttest prospective design our aims were to (1) convey education about prevention, protection, and safety; (2) provide this information through relationsh...

INTRODUCTION Penitentiary Nursing has experienced during the last decades a deep transformation similar to that experienced by the rest of the Nursing. However, there is a great distance from the protective legislation. OBJECTIVE To analyze the main legal documents which regulate the functions of Penitentiary Nursing and to compare it with the health care reality of nurses in Spanish prisons....

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews have shown uncertainty about the size or direction of any 'trial effect' for patients in trials compared to those treated outside trials. We are not aware of any systematic review of whether there is a 'trial effect' related to being treated by healthcare practitioners or institutions that take part in research. METHODS We searched the Cochrane Methodology Regist...

BACKGROUND Usually patients receive healthcare services from multiple hospitals, and consequently their healthcare data are dispersed over many facilities' paper and electronic-based record systems. Therefore, many countries have encouraged the research on data interoperability, access, and patient authorization. This study is an important part of a national project to build an information exch...

iSite provides an integrated image and information workflow using an advanced communication protocol linked to a central server. This makes it possible to create a ubiquitous information system, offering fast and effective transfer of information and images within and between healthcare institutions, and paving the way to the integration of images and image related information into electronic p...

Within Higher Education, concerns are growing with regard the gap between what university central services traditionally provide and what the academic departments within the institution need. The Institutionally Secure Integrated Data Environment (INSIDE) project is a JCIEL funded collaborative project between the Universities of St Andrew and Durham that proposes to address the above concerns ...

Using a case study of health information systems (HIS) in Kenya, we seek to better understand how HIS afford or constrain the action of local actors in provisioning health care in developing countries. We developed a theoretical perspective based on institutional theory that served as a lens to interpret the relationship between institutions and users’ perceptions of IT constraints and affordan...