BACKGROUND Doctor's profession has long been among one of the most attractive professions in Pakistani society, but doctors are increasingly getting dissatisfied with their jobs. The focus of this study is to point out the most prominent factors of job dissatisfaction among doctors working at Bahawal-Victoria Hospital / Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur. METHODS A questionnaire was mai...

BACKGROUND Staffing core laboratories with appropriate skilled workers requires a process to schedule these individuals so that all workstations are appropriately filled and all the skills of each worker are exercised periodically to maintain competence. METHODS We applied a genetic algorithm to scheduling laboratory personnel. Our program, developed in Visual Basic 4.0, maximizes the value o...

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 2000. Testing results were reported by 800 (89.7%) of 892 laboratories that received samp...

This report is an analysis of results furnished to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by laboratories participating in the Model Performance Evaluation Program (MPEP) after they tested the T-lymphocyte immunophenotyping (TLI) performance evaluation specimens sent them in September 1995. Of those laboratories receiving specimen panels, 314 of 342 (91.8%) reported testing result...

In many developed countries, the incidence of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) is considered to be negligible due to the availability of an effective vaccine. However, in Malaysia, several CRS cases are seen every year. This casts doubt on the effectiveness of the rubella vaccination programme. Very few seroprevalence studies were done over the years, making it difficult to discuss...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the ability of commonly measured laboratory variables to predict an imminent (within the same or next calendar day) death in ward patients. DESIGN Retrospective observational study. SETTING Two university affiliated hospitals. PATIENTS Cohort of 42,701 patients admitted for more than 24 hours and external validation cohort of 13,137 patients admitted for more than 24...

The InterMed Collaboratory involves five medical institutions (Stanford University, Columbia University, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and McGill University) whose mandate has been to join in the development of shared infrastructural software, tools, and system components that will facilitate and support the development of diverse, institution-specific applicatio...

healthcare waste is a by-product of healthcare. poor management of these wastes exposes the community to infections, toxic effects and injuries. the purpose of this study was to investigation the qualities and quantities characteristics of infectious and domestic wastes of dehgolan clinics in kurdistan province. for this purpose health care centers was identify including hospitals, clinics, inf...

This paper develops a model of standardized reproductive tract infection (RTI) management in the public sector using guidelines prepared by the National AIDS Control Organization. It also discusses the costs of upscaling the service to similar sites in Sitapur and Agra districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. The model shown in the paper conceives providing RTI case management services at the block...

Scientific productivity in Africa is insignificant compared to that in the rest of the world. This has been attributed to the fact that, in spite of academic qualifications, junior faculty, who form the majority of academics in low- and middle-income countries lack experience in research. This calls for a need to put in place programs that provide hands-on training in research so that junior fa...