Worker-Patient Contacts and Personal Protective Equipment Adherence within Hospital Rooms Junyang Chen, BS; James F. Cremer, PhD; Alberto Maria Segre, PhD; Philip M. Polgreen, MD; University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Io...

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Background. One of the most important psychosocial issues related to nursing profession is moral distress (MD), which has devastating effects on student performance as well patient care. The current study was conducted determine frequency, severity, rate, and causes MD in students. Methods. During this cross-sectional study, 86 samples were last year undergraduate students Kermanshah University...

Previous research has identified several individual-level factors that modify the risk of childhood trauma on adult psychiatric symptoms, including symptoms of major depression (MD) and posttraumatic stress (PTS). Neighborhood-level factors also influence the impact of individual-level exposures on adult psychopathology. However, no prior studies to our knowledge have explored cross-level inter...

*Department of Health Services Administration, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico; †Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program, University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico; ‡Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico Medical ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following interrelated editorials by Kimberlin and Long place the findings of Caviness et al regarding herpes simplex infection in young infants into a clinical framework. The editorialists delineate their personal approach and recommendations for the empiric use of acyclovir therapy; they illustrate the variations in practice that result when there is a shortfall of evidence...

Background: Workers in the construction industry are faced with a high degree of occupational hazards, one being physical wear and tear. Yet this phenomenon remains largely unexplored as there is a lack of both scientific terminological consistency, and of the actual specified numbers of cases with lost working ability. This results in an unspecific field of musculoskeletal deterioration (MD) a...

the growing scarcity of fresh water is driving the implementation of wastewater treatment and water reuse on an increasingly large scale. various methods have been developed and used for water reuse from wastewater; however, the membrane distillation (md) process, as a promising separation technology, has recently gained more attention. the md process is a non-isothermal membrane-based separati...