Many wound care centers (WCCs) provide a specialized level of care using various wound care therapies and are managed by qualified healthcare professionals (QHPs) from different specialty backgrounds such as family medicine, podiatry, and plastic surgery. However, these QHPs are sometimes challenged by reimbursement issues, limited therapy and dressing options, reduced access to multidisciplina...

Background Decentralisation aims to bring services closer to the community and has been advocated in the health sector to improve quality, access and equity, and to empower local agencies, increase innovation and efficiency and bring healthcare and decision-making as close as possible to where people live and work. Fiji has attempted two approaches to decentralisation. The current approach refl...

INTRODUCTION Paediatric central venous access devices (CVADs) are associated with a 25% incidence of failure. Securement and dressing are strategies used to reduce failure and complication; however, innovative technologies have not been evaluated for their effectiveness across device types. The primary aim of this research is to evaluate the feasibility of launching a full-scale randomised cont...

Public hospitals play an important role in the delivery of essential healthcare in Australia as in many countries. The Australian Government has in the recent years implemented national healthcare reform to improve the performance of and access to public hospital services. This reform extends to all public hospitals including remote hospitals. However, there is limited information on how reform...

In this paper, we propose a simple access protocol to shared information in a mobile environment. The objective of the proposed scheme is to allow a specified set of users access to shared information and protect the confidentiality of the information from users outside this set. The set of users may be updated from time to time. In particular, the duration during which a user is allowed access...

It is shown for any constant c < 1, that if NPMV have re nements in the class of multivalued functions that are polynomial time computable with c(log n) access to NPSV, then the polynomial time hierarchy collapses to its second level.

We build a dynamic political economy model with a two-class society: workers and the elite. In the model, the formation of the elite, the rate of innovation and …scal policy are endogenous. We focus on the con‡ict within the elite over two fundamental engines of economic growth: innovation and public investment. The model creates a mapping between institutions and economic outcomes which is con...

800x600   introduction:  many items are needed for dressing including sterile dressing set, antiseptic and washing solutions, leucoplast tape, waste bin for infectious garbage, waste bin for noninfectious garbage, safe disposal trash for sharp cutting instruments, bedpan and sometimes drugs. all the items are laid out on a simple wheeled trolley. the multiplicity of items together with problems...

Objective: Phenytoin is a medication primarily used to treat seizures, but it has been discovered have the potential for wound healing due its ability increase collagen production, promote new blood vessel growth, reduce inflammation, fight infections, and encourage skin growth. These effects are particularly useful chronic wounds like pressure ulcers, diabetic traumatic wounds, venous ulcers. ...