Based on the recommendations of a 1992 conference on tuberculosis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established programs for upgrading mycobacteriology laboratories by providing them with monies and focused training. In 1991, state public health laboratories were surveyed to determine the methods they were using for primary Mycobacterium tuberculosis testing and their turnar...

1 Department of Forensic Medicine and Veterinary Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena-Egypt 2 Department of Environmental Toxicology, Faculty of Biology, University Essen-Duisburg, Essen-Germany 3 Department of Pharmaceutical Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Hacettepe University, Sıhyyie/Ankara-Türkiye 4 Animal Nutrition Group, Institute of Animal Science, U...

AANA Journal  December 2012  Vol. 80, No. 6 453 Anesthesia support personnel provide direct support to anesthesia providers. They bring extra supplies or equipment, prepare equipment for the case, maintain and clean equipment, and generally function as directed by the anesthesia provider. Given the importance of anesthesia support personnel in maintaining equipment essential to safe anesthesi...

Medical education in Malaysia has a long history dating back to the establishment of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Malaya in 1963 [1]. Currently, there are 32 medical schools in the country (11 public and 21 private). At the end of 2014, there were 18,789 students in all years in Malaysian medical schools and another estimated 15,000 Malaysians studying medicine abroad [2]. This ...

We evaluated the performance of several methods for the detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus using 101 clinical S. aureus isolates from pediatric patients in a tertiary hospital in Brazil; 50 isolates were mecA-positive and 51 were mecA-negative. The Etest and oxacillin agar screening plates were 100% sensitive and specific for mecA presence. Oxacillin and cefoxitin disk...

Following up on recommendations made at the time of a hospital discharge is important to patient safety. While data is lacking, specifically around the transition of patient to nursing home, it has been postulated that missed items such as laboratory tests may result in adverse patient outcomes. To determine the extent of this problem, a retrospective cohort study of subjects discharged from an...

This report is an analysis of results provided to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by laboratories participating in the Model Performance Evaluation Program (MPEP) after they tested the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) performance evaluation samples shipped to them in January 2002. Testing results were reported by 780 (90.3%) of 864 laboratories that received samp...

These guidelines are designed to assist ART programs in establishing and maintaining a successful clinical practice and set criteria that meet or exceed the requirements suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for certification of ART laboratories.

A T u c w m s ( C r t i r a f “ n the past decade, the number of women medical students as equaled or exceeded the number of men. Despite this rowth, women continue to be persistently and substanially underrepresented in academic medicine. Although omen are more likely than men to pursue an academic areer, they are still underrepresented, constituting fewer han one-third of all physicians holdi...

BACKGROUND This paper presents a case study of an automated clinical laboratory in a large urban academic teaching hospital in the North of Italy, the Spedali Civili in Brescia, where four laboratories were merged in a unique laboratory through the introduction of laboratory automation. MATERIALS AND METHODS The analysis compares the preautomation situation and the new setting from a cost per...