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Access to safer injection equipment among people who inject drugs utilizing medical services in an urban hospital in the United States

Addiction Research & Theory, 2023
Injection drug use carries significant risks for injury and infection, particularly when injection supplies are reused or shared. Syringe service programs and pharmacy nonprescription sale of syringes minimize this risk by promoting access to supplies ...
D. Applewhite, S. Regan, K. Donelan, Wendy L. Macias-Konstantopoulos, Dawn Williamson, Laura G. Kehoe, C. Shaw, S. Wakeman   +7 more
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Educational interventions to improve compliance with disinfection practices of noncritical portable medical equipment: A systematic review

Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2023
Objective: To describe educational interventions that have been implemented in healthcare settings to increase the compliance of healthcare personnel (HCP) with cleaning and disinfection of noncritical portable medical equipment (PME) requiring low-level
A. Bhan, Chloe V. Green, Lisa Liang Philpotts, M. Doherty, A. S. Greenfield, Amy Courtney, Erica S. Shenoy   +6 more
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Arrangement of residence before hospital discharge for children on home‐invasive mechanical ventilation

Pediatric Pulmonology, 2023
Children on long‐term home mechanical ventilation are a growing population due to clinical and technological advances and the benefit for the child's quality of life.
A. Torrent‐Vernetta, Maria Morillo Soriano, Ignacio Iglesias Serrano, A. Izquierdo, Sandra Rovira Amigo, I. M. Messa, Silvia Gartner, A. Moreno‐Galdó   +7 more
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Medical Asset Management: Deep Learning Based Asset Usage Prediction in a Hospital Setting Using Real Data

International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2023
Periodic Automatic Replenishment (PAR) is an inventory management policy that assists the healthcare sector in keeping the right amount of stock on hand to avoid excess stock and the potential for products to expire.
Mona Esmaeili, Z. Akhavan, Hamid Nasiri, Y. M. Worku, S. T. Arzo, A. Stavropoulos, Michael Devetsikiotis, Payman Zarkesh-Ha   +7 more
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Emergency and critical care services in Somalia: a cross-sectional nationwide hospital assessment using the WHO Hospital Emergency Unit assessment tool

BMC Emergency Medicine
Data on emergency and critical care services in Somalia and other countries with fragile and conflict-affected (FCA) situations are limited, although the burden of emergency health conditions remain high.
H. Njiru, P. Relan, Sk Md Mamunur Rahman Malik, Azad Abdullah, M. Shube, A. Abubakar, I. Nur, A. Osman, Paul Sonenthal, S. Rouhani, Bernard Olayo, Naoko Ohno, I. Sindani, Ali Abdirahman Osman, Md Shajib Hossain, Ndithia James, Monther Alabesat, Mohamed Derow   +17 more
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Measuring the logistics performance of internal hospital supply chains – A literature study

Omega, 2019
The patient care processes in hospitals are supported by a range of operational activities including inventory management and distribution of supplies to point-of-care locations.
K. Moons, Geert Waeyenbergh, L. Pintelon
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Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of a U.S. Hospital-based Radiology Practice.

Radiology
Background Climate change, driven primarily by human-induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, poses major risks to human health. Health care contributes 8.5% of GHG emissions in the United States. Purpose To estimate the life cycle environmental impact of
C. Thiel, Marta Vigil-Garcia, Sachin Nande, Cecilia Meijer, Josephine Gehrels, O. Struk, Sophie Thornander, Denise Pullella, Reed A. Omary, Diana E. Carver, J. Scheel   +10 more
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Availability of Pediatric Services and Equipment in Emergency Departments

Pediatric emergency care
Objective This study was conducted to assess the availability of equipment and supplies in the emergency departments of the hospitals in the West Bank of Palestine. Methods This study was conducted in a cross-sectional design using a data collection form
Ramzi Shawahna, Yara Mukhaimer, Hiba Hawwari, Mo'men Barham, Mohammad Jaber, Iyad Maqboul, Hatim Hijaz   +6 more
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Challenges Following Hospital Discharge for Children With Medical Complexity.

Hospital Pediatrics, 2020
OBJECTIVES The transition from hospital to home is a period of risk, particularly for children with medical complexity. Our aim was to identify and address discharge challenges through execution of postdischarge phone calls. METHODS In this prospective
Abigail Musial, Breann Butts, Allison M. Loechtenfeldt, Lisa E. Herrmann, Emily Schmidlin, J. Kelley, Traci Hail, Christine M. White, J. Thomson   +8 more
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[Supplying therapeutic equipment to tuberculosis departments and hospitals].

Meditsinskaia tekhnika, 1999
The paper provides evidence for that the development of new treatments of tuberculosis by using up-to-date technical means and their introduction into practice. It gives the data of the researches and developments made by the VNIIMP-VITA close joint stock company, which are both aimed at providing tuberculous units and hospitals with necessary ...
E D, Kurochkin, A N, Varin
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