background: interprofessional teamwork is considered as the key to improve the quality of patient management in critical settings such as trauma emergency departments, but it is not fully conceptualized in these areas to guide practice. the aim of this article is to explore interprofessional teamwork and its improvement strategies in trauma emergency departments. materials and methods: particip...

The past 2 decades have yielded profound advances in the fields of prenatal diagnosis and fetal intervention. Although fetal interventions are driven by a beneficence-based motivation to improve fetal and neonatal outcomes, advancement in fetal therapies raises ethical issues surrounding maternal autonomy and decision-making, concepts of innovation versus research, and organizational aspects wi...

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...

This study has two objectives: (1) to examine the relationship between the involvement of community health centers (CHCs) in managed care and various center characteristics, including patient, provider, services, and financial characteristics, that are critically linked with the fulfillment of their mission and (2) to identify factors significantly associated with CHCs' involvement in managed c...

STUDY OBJECTIVE We compare utilization, price per visit, and the types of care delivered across freestanding emergency departments (EDs), hospital-based EDs, and urgent care centers in Texas. METHODS We analyzed insurance claims processed by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas from 2012 to 2015 for patient visits to freestanding EDs, hospital-based EDs, or urgent care centers in 16 Texas metropol...

Background: Lack and inequitable distribution of human resources for health (HRH) is a major health systems challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa. '.2 The Partnership for Innovative Medical Education for Kenya (PRIME-Kenya) is an innovative approach that seeks to strengthen health systems by increasing linkages and collaborations in health care, health education, and health research. This approach wa...

PURPOSE Worldwide, at least 190,000 children are blind due to cataract. Although, surgical intervention is the treatment of choice, in most developing countries the number of children with cataract being brought to hospital for surgery has been few in number, considerably less than the burden of disease in the community. Furthermore, long delay in presentation is a major deterrent to improved v...

Sec.A663.001.AADEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1)AA"Child care facility" includes only a child care facility established under this chapter. (2)AA"Child care program" means the program developed by the commission to provide child care services for state employees. (3)AA"Commission" means the Texas Facilities Commission. (4)AA"Committee" means the Child Care Advisory Committee. Added by Acts 1993...