BACKGROUND An accurate estimation of renal function in children is important in optimising the dose of many drugs used in paediatric oncology for allowing clinical monitoring of the nephrotoxic effects of cytotoxic agents such as cisplatin. The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is widely accepted as the best index of renal function in patients. Chemotherapy is the mainstay of treatment in the pa...

Background: Cancer and hospitalization can be the major crisis that a child encounters .A diagnosis of cancer often involves long hospital stays from days to months for the pediatric oncology patient in Iraq with limited access to psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers. Consequently, many patients experience psychosocial problems as a result. Objective(s): The aims of this study was to...

This article proposes a new holistic conceptualization of empathy for nursing practice that allows different aspects of the literature to be understood. This study is based on the data of a doctoral study exploring the nature of empathy on an oncology ward. The findings revealed that empathy is not a single phenomenon. Four different forms of empathy were identified, namely, empathy as an incid...

Results During the study period 6616520 patients were hospitalized in 100 hospitals. A total number of 57082 patients got nosocomial infection according to NNIS definitions. The infection rate in 100 hospitals from 2007 to 2010 were 0.6% , 0.87% , 0.96%, 1.1% respectively, (range 0.2% to 5.7%). Urinary tract infections (UTI) was the most common infection (28.9%) among reported cases, followed b...

Primary varicella-zoster virus infection in children with haematological malignancy is a life threatening disease. In one year, there were 10 cases of varicella and 2 cases of zoster among these children as well as 5 mothers who were accompanying their children who developed varicella in the oncology ward. Two children died of fulminating disease despite aggressive antiviral and supportive trea...

Methods This program was conducted in a 500-bed private hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. WHO tool was used to assess HH adherence before (Jun-Aug2008) and after the intervention (Jul-Sept2009). The inpatient units were: Medical Surgical Ward, Oncology, Neonatal and Pediatrics and outpatient were: Surgical Ambulatory, Obstetric Center, Emergency, Post Anesthesia, Diagnostic Medicine Department and...

A cluster of bacteremia episodes with Klebsiella pneumoniae was noted in patients in a hematology-oncology ward during a 3-week period. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis, a novel technique for generating chromosomal fingerprints from bacterial isolates, was used as an aid to the epidemiological investigation of this cluster. For each of the two patients from whom multiple isolate...