BACKGROUND In 2004, the Korean government and blood transfusion community deliberated on the issue of a national blood system reform and agreed to implement a 5-year project (2004-2009) to further improve safety measures. Our study delineates the basis of the current national blood program and analyzes the performance of this 5-year project initiated by the Korean government. METHODS A perfor...

AIM To study the mechanism of road traffic collisions (RTC), use of safety devices, and outcome of hospitalized pediatric and youth RTC injured patients so as to give recommendations regarding prevention of pediatric RTC injuries. METHODS All RTC injured children and youth (0-19-year-olds) who were admitted to Al Ain City's two major trauma centers or who died after arrival to these centers w...

OBJECTIVES Safety net health centers (SNHCs), which include federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) provide primary care for underserved, minority and low income patients. SNHCs across the country are in the process of adopting the patient centered medical home (PCMH) model, based on promising early implementation data from demonstration projects. However, previous demonstration projects hav...

Centers The Joint Commission recently added National Patient Safety Goal NPSG.07.06.01, which addresses the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), as a requirement for nursing care centers. The Joint Commission also revised NPSG.07.06.01 for hospitals and critical access hospitals to bring the Goal into alignment with the 2014 update to the Compendium of Strategies t...

A brief overview is provided of some of the general safety and risk assessment procedures used by the different centers of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) to evaluate low-level exposures. The U.S. FDA protects public health by regulating a wide variety of consumer products including foods, human and animal drugs, biologics, and medical devices under the federal Food, Drug, and ...

PURPOSE Because cancer chemotherapy is a high-risk intervention, ASCO and the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) established in 2009 consensus- and evidence-based national standards for the safe administration of chemotherapy. We sought to assess the implementation status of the ASCO/ONS chemotherapy administration safety standards. METHODS A written survey of chemotherapy practices was sent to N...

We report recent advances in photonic–electronic integration developed the European research project L3MATRIX. The aim of was to demonstrate basic building blocks a co-packaged optical system. Two-dimensional silicon photonics arrays with 64 modulators were fabricated. Novel modulation schemes based on slow light assist achieving an efficient performance module. Integration DFB laser sources wi...

Background: This study aims to evaluate the negative health impacts of exposure to electromagnetic field and to prepare a risk map of two selected call centers. Materials and Methods: Two call centers whose electromagnetic field values were measured by calibrated low high and point frequency measurement device. The measurements were performed by following the EN 50492 Standards. 178 employees ...

background and purpose: pregnant women are at a higher risk of influenza infection, and influenza vaccination is recommended for these women to reduce the associated complications. this study aimed to determine the knowledge and practice about influenza vaccination and identify the factors influencing compliance with influenza immunization among pregnant women. methods: this cross-sectional stu...

OBJECTIVE To determine how the capacity and viability of local health care safety nets changed over the last six years and to draw lessons from these changes. DATA SOURCE The first three rounds (May 1996 to March 2001) of Community Tracking Study site visits to 12 communities. STUDY DESIGN Researchers visited the study communities every two years to interview leaders of local health care sy...