AIM A 23-hour Care Centre was created at a principal referral hospital in Sydney in 2003. Its primary aim was to provide efficient and high quality care to patients requiring a brief stay in hospital for surgical or medical procedures, within one coordinated unit. DESIGN The features underlying the 23-hour Care Centre as an innovative model of care were the clinical guideline driven approach ...

Antibiotic resistant and invasive pneumococci may spread temporally and locally in day care centers (DCCs). We examined 267 children attending four DCCs located in the same city and 70 children staying at home in three seasons (autumn, winter, and spring) to determine prevalence, serotype distribution, antibiotic resistance patterns, and transmission of pneumococcal strains colonizing upper res...

A report on the third meeting of the Research Data Management Forum which was held in Manchester, UK on April 30 and May 1, 2009, with an overarching theme entitled " Value and Benefits ". The event was co-sponsored by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Research Information Network (RIN). The International Journal of Digital Curation is an international journal committed to scholarly exc...

The researched issue is the impact of infection caused by a new type coronavirus in environment day care centre. importance given fact that topic directly concerns lives all actors connected with offering social services. purpose was to use stories obtained from helpers order look at subjective picture which shows current situation actors. With onset pandemic and introduction anti-pandemic meas...

During development, multiple guidance cues direct the formation of appropriate synaptic connections. Factors that guide developing axons are known for various pathways throughout the mammalian brain; however, signals necessary to establish auditory connections are largely unknown. In the auditory brainstem the neurons whose axons traverse the midline in the ventral acoustic stria (VAS) are prim...

Funding bodies increasingly require researchers to produce Data Management Plans (DMPs). The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has created DMP Online, a web-based tool which draws upon an analysis of funders’ requirements to enable researchers to create and export customisable DMPs, both at the grant application stage and during the project’s lifetime. The International Journal of Digital Curation ...

OBJECTIVE This study established patients' preferences regarding the facilities in an adjacent centre for ambulatory hospital care. It also identified determinants of patients' choice to visit this centre instead of the regional hospital. METHODS A questionnaire survey among 1477 elderly and chronically ill people (response 72%) assessed patients' expectations regarding (a) quality of hospita...

conclusion determination of colonized bacteria in oropharynx of healthy children and relationship between them can be helpful to find the ways to interfere with their colonization and prevention of diseases due to them. materials and methods the colonized bacteria in oropharynx of 296 children between 2-6 years old from 7 day care centers of tehran were isolated and determined by specific diagn...