Long-lasting insecticide-treated net usage in eastern Sierra Leone - the success of free distribution. [PDF]
, 2010 Summary Objective Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a malaria control project in Bo and Pujehun districts (population 158 000) that includes the mass distribution, routine delivery and demonstration of correct use of free, long-lasting insecticide ...
Baker, Samuel +6 more
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An exploratory study into the factors that influence patients' perceptions of cleanliness in an acute NHS trust hospital [PDF]
, 2007 Purpose – If NHS hospitals wish to influence patients to choose them and, as the literature review suggests, cleanliness will be a key-influencing factor in making that choice, it would seem important for hospitals to understand what factors lead people ...
Agahi, H., May, D., Whitehead, H.
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Social democratic government and spatial distribution of health care facilities: The case of hospital beds in Germany [PDF]
The European Journal of Public Health, 2001 In this paper, the hypothesis that the spatial distribution of hospital beds is more even in countries with socialist or social democratic governments than in countries with conservative or Christian democratic governments was tested. To avoid the confounding influences of historical and institutional differences between countries, we used the Federal ...
Bennema-Broos, M +2 more
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Cancer MedicineBackground A methodology for determining the appropriate balance between medical access and combating poverty remains undetermined. To address the boundary conditions for exceedingly good medical access, this study examined whether the impact of ...
Toshiaki Shibata +2 more
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Are hygiene standards useful in assessing infection risk? [PDF]
, 2008 We monitored the surface level cleanliness of a five-bedded surgical intensive care unit (SICU) over a ten-week period in order to evaluate proposed hygiene standards.Ten environmental sites within SICU were sampled twice weekly along with collection of ...
Bhalla +13 more
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Improving Patient Satisfaction with the Virtual Handoff Process through the Utilization of Educational Pamphlets in the Emergency Department [PDF]
, 2020 Boarding patients in the emergency room while waiting to transfer the patient to the proper unit can be harmful to clinical care and have significant financial opportunity costs.
Heintz, Lynda Michelle
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Investigating the removal of some pharmaceutical compounds in hospital wastewater treatment plants operating in Saudi Arabia [PDF]
, 2016 The concentrations of 12 pharmaceutical compounds (atenolol, erythromycin, cyclophosphamide, paracetamol, bezafibrate, carbamazepine, ciprofloxacin, caffeine, clarithromycin, lidocaine, sulfamethoxazole and Nacetylsulfamethoxazol (NACS)) were ...
Akunna, Joseph C. +3 more
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Inequalities in the geographic distribution of hospital beds and doctors in traditional Chinese medicine from 2004 to 2014 [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018 This study identifies inequities in the provincial-level geographical distribution of traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) hospital beds and doctors in China from 2004 to 2014. This provides policy implications of the optimal allocation of TCM health care resources.Our study used province level data on TCM hospital beds and doctors from 2004 to 2014 ...
Liming Lu, Jingchun Zeng
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Inter-state transmission potential and vulnerability of COVID-19 in India
Progress in Disaster Science, 2020 Since the first case of COVID-19 traced in India on 30th January, 2020, the total no. of confirmed cases is amplified. To assess the inter-state diversity in spreading potentiality of COVID-19, the exposure, readiness and resilience capability have been ...
Kapil Ghosh +3 more
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Kent and Medway acute mental health services review [PDF]
, 2012 An independent analysis of the public response to a consultation on ‘achieving excellent care in a mental health crisis’ by the Centre for Nursing and Healthcare Research at the University of Greenwich.
Barshell, Kelly +4 more
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