OBJECTIVES Compliance with our local hospital policy for gentamicin administration and monitoring was found to be inadequate on audit. A gentamicin monitoring form was introduced with the aim of improving staff compliance with the policy thus minimizing the risks of toxicity while ensuring adequate dosing. PATIENTS AND METHODS The initial audit examined the prescribing, administration and mon...

aim and background: cognitivists have recently paid extensive attention to source monitoring deficit as an impairment in schizophrenic patients and is used in clarification of major symptoms including hallucination and delusion. therefore, the present study aimed to explore the effects of source monitoring ability in auditory hallucination. methods and materials: this causal-comparative study u...

abstract background: intensive care unit is a center to provide comprehensive care for critically ill patients whose condition can be improved by receiving specialized care. the importance of accurate and rapid monitoring of patients at this precise moment is in recording patient data and its comparison with previous data. monitoring the patient by either devices or direct examination of the nu...

In this paper we propose a monitoring system of a data center that is able to infer when the data center is getting into an anomalous behavior by analyzing the power consumption at each server and the data center network traffic. The monitoring system is non-intrusive in the sense that there is no need to install software on the data center servers. The monitoring architecture embeds two Elman ...