OBJECTIVE Our aim was to study the proportion of healthcare workers with a positive serology for Influenza A(H1N1)2009 without having flu, in a Spanish hospital at the beginning of the pandemic. METHODS A survey study carried out during August 2009 (before the peak of the pandemic in Spain) in the Hospital Costa del Sol, a second level hospital with almost 300 beds in the South of Spain. The ...

Mortality among men employed in the health sector was examined using data surrounding the 1971 (1970-2) and 1981 (1979-83) censuses to assess the differences between social classes in the health service and to study changes over a decade. Relative to men in England and Wales, mortality in the 1980s was significantly lower among dentists (standardised mortality ratio 66), doctors (69), opticians...

Restriction of the rights of patients in a psychiatric hospital, isolation and fixation, compulsory treatment, and round-the-clock monitoring are negatively perceived by them, contribute to the stigma of a psychiatric hospital, and prevent timely access to psychiatric help. Objectives: We assessed the opinions of patients in psychiatric hospitals and psychiatrists about coercion and violence i...

BACKGROUND Healthcare quality improvement (QI) is a global priority, and understanding the perspectives of frontline healthcare workers can help guide sustainable and meaningful change. We report a qualitative investigation of emergency department (ED) staff priorities for QI at a tertiary care hospital in Ghana. The aims of the study were to educate staff about the World Health Organization's ...

Several important papers have been written describing various aspects of pulmonary tuberculosis in negro races (Dumas, 1919; Borrel, 1920; Opie, 1924 and 1930; Report on South African Natives, 1932; Allen, 1932; Everett, 1933; Pinner and Kasper, 1932; Cummins, 1939; Israel and Payne, 1940). An acute course, with a high incidence of gross glandular enlargement and of tuberculous pneumonia, is we...

Historians generally argue that the First World War was a defining experience from which Canadians emerged with a strong sense of national identity distinct from their British roots. There is little historical research on women's wartime experiences and even less on military nurses. This article explores the working relationships of Nursing Sister Emeline Robinson with British nurses, VAD volun...

Of the making of books specially written for nurses there seems no end, and the volume under review is a typical example ?f its class. The captious critic searches in vain for inaccuracies ?r omissions, while the style is eminently readable. The arrangement may be described as regional, each system being treated by itself, and a description of the diseases of the system being Preceded by an acc...

To ident@ high risk areas for back injury in a large teaching hospital, we calculated standard injury rates and newly developed composite statistics for nursing and non-nursing work groups. Data were extracted from the hospital’s workers’ compensation database. The hospital-wide total injury rate was 4.6 reports per 100 full-time equivalents (FTE); Compensation Case Rate, 1.4 cases per 100 IT?;...