The aim of this study was to examine the pattern of attendance of patients requesting Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) at an accident and emergency department before and after a government driven change in legislation, which allowed EHC to be sold over-the-counter by trained pharmacists, to women aged 16 years and above. We employed retrospective comparative study using computer records o...

PURPOSE The study was done to compare effects of two endotracheal tube (ET tube) fixation methods (rotated fixation versus conventional) on unplanned extubation and skin integrity for orally intubated patients in intensive care units. METHODS The research design was a non-equivalent control group with repeated measures design. Participants were 80 patients; 40 participants assigned to each gr...

Migration of people to urban areas from the rural areas usually comes with its challenges interms of infrastructural requirement and housing to cater for growing population. One of the challenge for the urbandwellers in Nigeria is that of adequate housing. The inability of the government to meet this demand has seen thepeople concerned seeking alternative solutions to housing need. The resultin...

Against the threat of online banking theft, governments are imposing two different types of legal schemes: strict liability and negligence. Countries like the U.S. are imposing strict liability on online banking transactions to ensure that service providers like banks take more care. However, under strict liability banks does not provide adequate client security measures. Countries like Korea a...

Recent advances in shopper insights reveal that consumers rarely “shop” the entire store. On average, shoppers’ paths only cover about one-third of the areas in a grocery store and hence are unexposed to the majority of products in the store. Given that shoppers typically use physical products in the store as an external memory cue, encouraging shoppers to travel more of the store may increase ...

HYPOTHESIS To test our hypothesis that unplanned return to the operating room (OR) is a useful quality indicator, we examined how often and for what reasons patients go back to the OR in a broad-based general surgery practice. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective cohort study at a rural tertiary care center. PATIENTS Consecutive series of 3044 patients undergoing general surgery procedures in the...

While government turnover is often thought of as an adverse source of instability, it may also be viewed as a favourable source of competition and institution-building. To articulate and test such hypotheses, this article describes two main concepts of government turnover: leadership turnover, or change in rulers, and ideological turnover, or change in the rulers’ ideology. Refinements involve ...

IMPORTANCE Patients undergoing total laryngectomy are at high risk for hospital readmission. Hospital readmissions are increasingly scrutinized because they are used as a metric of quality care and are subject to financial penalties. OBJECTIVE To determine the rate of, reasons for, and risk factors that predict 30-day unplanned readmission for patients undergoing total laryngectomy. DESIGN,...