This article aimed to: (1) review the work carried out in Lanarkshire between 1996 and 1999 on a Scottish Executive funded project and (2) to discuss the situation from 1999 to 2006. (1) This 3-year project led to the successful development and implementation of over 100 integrated care pathways in an urban teaching hospital (Glasgow) and a district general hospital (Lanarkshire) and was the fi...

"Warming" are, on the other hand, very full, and include descriptions of the latest developments of mechanical ventilation. The remarks on the comparative value of ventilation by mechanical and natural means, and on the advantages of simplicity in this as in other points of hospital design, are judicious and well stated. We miss, in the account of methods proposed for the cremation of outgoing ...

1HE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE is to present useful information and suggestions that have been found of practical value in a general hospital in dealing with problems arising from accidental, suicidal, and industrial intoxication. This material is based on background experience gained in the laboratory of Dr. A. 0. Gettler, Chief Toxicologist to the Medical Examiner of the City of New York, and in...

more necessary and more and more used.In earlier days and among backward and primitive peoples much opposition is felt, and many of us remember in India about 15 years ago the plague riots and the burning of plague camps and hospitals by the very people for whose good they were intended. In India the people and the educated classes are only slowly emerging from the dark ages as regards sanitati...

The decentralisation of Australia's centralised wage fixation system has been seen as providing opportunities for employers and trade unions to tailor working arrangements to suit the needs of the workplace and to provide better paid long-term jobs. This paper details the productivity bargaining between the Private Hospitals' Association of Queensland and The Australian Workers' Union in 1995-9...

INTRODUCTION Fungal contamination in hospitals has been a major health concern, especially in immunosuppressed patients. Construction programs increase the risk of fungal contaminations in hospitals. This study aimed to monitor and compare fungal contamination in two hospitals in Bandar Abbas, Iran, one of which was undergoing construction. Furthermore, the study determined the seasonal variati...