The legacy of Gulf War Syndrome led to fears that the deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003 would have an eff ect on the mental health of the UK armed forces. Contrary to many people’s expectati ons, deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan has not led to an increase in mental health problems and the overall number of personnel with symptoms of post-traumati c stress disorder is low. But the...

To increase Navy Nurse Corps manpower management efficiency, we developed a Markov model of the personnel flow of junior officers (O1-O4). The Nurse Corps manages personnel primarily through the recruitment process, drawing on multiple accession sources. Accession sources were shown to have a statistically significant effect on promotion and retention rates. However, these effects were not foun...

background prevalence of low back pain (lbp) and neck pain (np) in workers, especially in nurses is high, but their knowledge of ergonomics is not enough. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of ergonomic training on low back pain and neck pain, posture, and function in female hospital personnel of najaf-abad, iran. patients and methods in this queasy experimental study, ...

Clinical trial allocation in multinational pharmaceutical companies includes country selection and site selection. With emphasis on site selection, the overall aim of this study was to examine which factors pharmaceutical companies value most when allocating clinical trials. The specific aims were (1) to identify key decision makers during country and site selection, respectively, (2) to evalua...

OBJECTIVE To describe the costs of providing support to breastfeeding low-income women and compares costs to cost offsets of the intervention. DESIGN Secondary analysis of data from a randomized controlled trial of an intervention to promote breastfeeding among low-income women with full-term infants. SETTING A university hospital and a community hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. PARTICIPA...

by Raymond G. Lewis, PE In addition to potential business liabilities, there can be significant costs associated with an autoclave validation process. The practical experience that this article is based on may provide assistance in ensuring an effective, efficient validation process for steam sterilization. Introduction This article is based on practical experiences gained by the author while c...

INTRODUCTION Rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the context of financial and health system constraints has resulted in calls to maximize efficiency in ART service delivery. Adopting differentiated care models (DCMs) for ART could potentially be more cost-efficient and improve outcomes. However, no study comprehensively projects the cost savings across countries. We model the pote...

Governor of Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janet Napolitano Superintendent of Public Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom Horne Student Regent (voting), appointed to June 2004 ....

BACKGROUND Recently, a strategy for treating stroke directly at the emergency site was developed. It was based on the use of an ambulance equipped with a scanner, a point-of-care laboratory, and telemedicine capabilities (Mobile Stroke Unit). Despite demonstrating a marked reduction in the delay to thrombolysis, this strategy is criticized because of potentially unacceptable costs. METHODS We...