The mechanisms of linezolid resistance among 86 staphylococcal isolates from two intensive care units were investigated. The most frequent was the G2576T mutation in the 23S rRNA (82%). The cfr gene was found in 17% of the isolates, seven S. aureus and eight S. epidermidis isolates. Four of the S. epidermidis isolates had the G2576T mutation and the cfr gene. In four S. haemolyticus isolates, t...

In October 2005, northern Pakistan was devastated by an earthquake killing 73,000 people. Some of the seriously injured were airlifted to a tertiary hospital in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. This field report describes the psychiatric services delivered at that hospital. It explains how the needs were assessed and psychosocial interventions designed at different levels. The training needs of the ...

INTRODUCTION Misinterpretation of abbreviations by healthcare professionals has been reported to compromise patient safety. This study was done to determine the prevalence of abbreviations usage among medical doctors and nurses and their ability to interpret commonly used abbreviations in medical practice. METHODS Seventy-seven medical doctors and eighty nurses answered a self-administered qu...

BACKGROUND There is a great disparity in spatial accessibility to hospital care between ethnic minority and non-minority regions in China. Being one of the basic social demands, spatial access to hospital care in minority regions draws increasing attention in China in recent years. We performed this study to have a better understanding of spatial access to hospital care in ethnic minority regio...

BACKGROUND The epidemiological investigation of acculturation has often been hampered by inconsistent definitions and measurement, and methodological short-comings. Adopting a bi-directional model, with good theoretical and psychometric properties, this study aimed to describe the temporal, ethnic and socio-demographic influences of acculturation for a group of Pacific mothers residing in New Z...

An efficient and general method for the synthesis of unsymmetrical tetrasubstituted ureas from carbamoylimidazole is described. The conversion is achieved by the concurrent quarternization of the imidazole nitrogen and activation of amines with AlMe(3).

OBJECTIVE Determine the appropriate model for incident study of adverse or undesirable events in more extensive levels from primary to tertiary hospitals across Thailand. MATERIAL AND METHOD The present study was mainly a qualitative research design. Participating anesthesia providers are asked to report, on anonymous and voluntary basis, by completing the standardized incident report form as...

BACKGROUND There is an increasing demand for quality healthcare in the face of limited resources. With the health personnel consuming up to three quarters of recurrent budgets, a need arises to ascertain that a workforce for any health facility is the optimal level needed to produce the desired product. OBJECTIVE To highlight the experience and findings of an attempt at establishing the optim...

Family Welfare—Reproductive and Child Health Project—Maternal Health provision of birthCompanion in the Secondary and Tertiary Hospitals—Guidelines—Issued. HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (R1) DEPARTMENT G.O.(Ms.) No.215Date: 2.7.2004Read: