According to WHO, at any one time, around 50 per cent of medical equipment in lowand middle-income countries cannot be used because of lack of maintenance or spare parts.1 We have found that unwillingness or inability to repair equipment and put it back in use is also a major cause. New equipment is made available by different international non-government organisations (INGOs) competing with on...

OBJECTIVE The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has promoted pediatrician involvement in the care of children with special health care needs (CSHCN), including the prescription and/or supervision of therapies and durable medical equipment (DME) for children in both medical and educational settings, such as schools and early intervention programs. Through this survey, we attempted to quantify...

An industry-based “mistake-proofi ng” technique and a qualitative research approach were applied to an academic setting to identify and eliminate root causes that result in damaged laboratory equipment and educational aids by college students or instructors. Instructors in an Aviation Technologies (AT) program were interviewed to yield numerous recurring issues when using equipment and/or educa...

This paper is a reflective discussion on the use of equipment matrices to determine infrastructure requirements in an education context. This position was originally presented within the wider framework of a governmentfunded research project to initiate national policies for implementing IT within primary schools. Equipment matrices were seen by the policymakers funding this reasearch as an app...

Background: Nosocomial infections are the most important problems of health. The prevalence of nosocomial infection is 7-10 percent of admitted patients. the present study was carried out to determine the degree of following the preventive principles of nosocomial infections in educational hospitals of Khorramabad city at 2004-2005. Material and methods: This descriptive, cross –sectional ...

background : one of the essential components of learning and educational program is evaluation or examination. there are various methods for evaluating clinical skills among which objective structured clinical examination (osce) has been recognized as the most reliable method for evaluation of the clinical skills. methods : this was a one-step single-group descriptive study which was conducted ...

occupational exposure to cytotoxic drugs is a global concern. we conducted this cross-sectional study in 2012 to describe the adverse effects experienced by nurses working in one of chemotherapy facilities affiliated to shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, southern iran, and their proper use of personal protective equipment and educational programs. the frequency of side effects repor...

Teaching aids for control engineering, Virtual and remote labs Open educational resources E-learning in control engineering, Tele-operation Independent learning Centralized Internet repository for control education Virtual reality in control education Continuing control education in industry, University-industry co-operation in control engineering education Teacher and student exchange programs...