BACKGROUND In Pakistan 90% of births are conducted by TBA's. In most cases, TBA's are unable to diagnose the complications and are often unable to take decisions on timely referral. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence, nature and outcome of life threatening obstetrical conditions in referrals by Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs). METHODS This Observational, Descripti...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review of prospectively collected data. PURPOSE To evaluate the incidence of surgical site infections (SSIs) in minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) in a cohort of patients and compare with available historical data on SSI in open spinal surgery cohorts, and to evaluate additional direct costs incurred due to SSI. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE SSI can lead to prolonge...

BACKGROUND Constant decline in maternal mortality ratio has given rise to the need of a new indicator. This search has motivated investigation of severe maternal morbidity-"maternal near-miss" (MNM) event. World Health Organization (WHO) defines MNM as "a woman who, being close to death, survives a complication that occurred during pregnancy, delivery or up to 42 days after the end of her pregn...

BACKGROUND Severe maternal conditions have increasingly been used as alternative measurements of the quality of maternal care and as alternative strategies to reduce maternal mortality. We aimed to study severe maternal morbidity and maternal near miss among women in two tertiary hospitals in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia. METHODS A cross-sectional study with record review was conducted in 2...

one method of seed placement into the soil as regards no-till system is the use of punch planting by which one can plant through a considerable depth of surface residue. the study was conducted using a 2?3 split-plot experimental design of three replications. the factors considered were two types of plantes (conventional planter vs. hinging pneumatic punch planter) and three levels of wheat res...

In multithreaded applications with high degree of data sharing, the miss rate of private cache is shown to exhibit a compulsory miss component. It manifests because at least some of the shared data originates from other cores and can only be accessed in a shared cache. The compulsory component does not change with the private cache size, causing its miss rate to diminish slower as the cache siz...

BACKGROUND The maternal near-miss concept has been developed as an instrument for assisting health systems to evaluate and improve their quality of care. Our study aimed at studying the characteristics and quality of care provided to women with severe complications in Baghdad through the use of the World Health Organization (WHO) near-miss approach for maternal health. METHODS This is a facil...

BACKGROUND The maternal near-miss approach has been increasingly used as a tool to evaluate and improve the quality of care in maternal health. We report findings from the formative stage of a World Health Organization (WHO) funded implementation research study that was undertaken to collect primary data at the facility level on the prevalence, characteristics, and management of maternal near-m...