background: there is an international emphasis on providing timely and high quality data to monitor progress of countries toward millennium development goals. iran’s multiple indicator demographic and health survey (irmidhs) aimed to provide valid information on population and health outcomes to monitor progress in achieving national priorities and health programs and to assist policy makers to...

Quality assurance in medical services has become a more and more important issue. In order to achieve reliable results of DNA image cytometry as described and discussed in detail in the first part of this report [2], the conditions for reproducible preparation, measurement and interpretation have to be worked out, carefully followed and checked at various steps of the process in certain time in...

In June 2000, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation wrote to the Minister of Health and contacted the media about concerns of nurses employed at a small, provincial public hospital. The admitted re-use of syringes by a visiting anaesthetist and the potential risk of disease transmission to 134 surgical patients were widely published. In July 2000, the hospital announced that an error had been mad...