This article (a follow on from an article concentrating on Northern Ireland) examines the relationship between percentage bed occupancy (PO), turnover interval (TI) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) rates in the acute beds of specialist English hospital trusts and describes the TI and levels of bed occupancy. The data were collected from publicly available data: MRSA rates ...

BACKGROUND This study applied a new strategy, termed high-turnover utility bed intervention, to offer early admission chances for emergency department (ED) patients and alleviate ED crowding. METHODS This before-and-after observational cohort study was conducted at the ED of an urban tertiary hospital. On January 1, 2012, 14 utility beds were prepared exclusively for ED patient use. A strict ...

the adsorption of lead (11) and copper (11) in a fixed bed column using activated carbonprepared from nipa palm nut was investigated. thomas model and yoon and nelson kinetic models were used to analyze the column performance. the rate constant for thomas model increased with increase in flow rate and initial ion concentration but remained constant at varying bed height. adsorption capacity for...

results doctor sheikh hospital has been shifting variably between the second and third quadrants; hashemi nejad hospital was moved to the third quadrant in 2006 to 2011 and finally to the first quadrant in 2011. the status of shariati hospital and omolbanin hospital remained constant in the first and second quadrants during these six years. finally, the khatamolanbiya hospital was moved from th...

Bed bugs, Cimex lectularius L. (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), are a fast-growing urban pest of significant public health importance in the United States and many other countries. Yet, there is very little field research on the ecology of this pest due to its near absence in the United States and most developed nations for several decades. We investigated characteristics of the bed bug infestation and ...

CONTEXT Animal models and human studies suggest that osteocytes regulate the skeleton's response to mechanical unloading in part by an increase in sclerostin. However, few studies have reported changes in serum sclerostin in humans exposed to reduced mechanical loading. OBJECTIVE We determined changes in serum sclerostin and bone turnover markers in healthy adult men undergoing controlled bed...

CONTEXT Globally, abortion-related morbidity places a largely unmeasured physical, social and economic burden on women, yet little research has examined population-level morbidity, particularly in developing countries. METHODS Data were drawn from a representative 2002 survey in Madhya Pradesh, India, of married women aged 15-39 who had at least one child; the analysis examined 966 abortion a...

The aim of the study was to analyze the kinetics of short-term changes in bone turnover. We studied in a randomized crossover design the effects of 6 days of bed rest on eight healthy male subjects (mean body wt: 70.1 +/- 5.7 kg; mean age: 25.5 +/- 2.9 yr). The metabolic ward period was divided into three parts: 4 ambulatory days, 6 days of either bed rest or non-bed rest periods, and 1 recover...