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Estimated Risk of HIV Acquisition and Practice for Preventing Occupational Exposure: A Study of Healthcare Workers at Tumbi and Dodoma Hospitals, Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2013
Health care workers (HCWs) are at risk of acquiring human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) and other infections via exposure to infectious patients' blood and body fluids.
A Kilale, A Pruss-Ustun, AA Reda, B Doebbeling, B Gumodoka, C Denise, CS Kessler, de lTX, DM Cardo, E Mossdorf, Emmanuel Makundi, G Morino, Godfrey M Mubyazi, Hamisi M Malebo, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections. Eye of the needle, Hussein Mohamed, ILO, WHO: Joint Guidelines on Health Services and HIV/AIDS, JA Rabbitts, Kijakazi O Mashoto, M Zhang, MG Worthington, OSHA, S Sohn, S Tuma, WHO: International Council of Nurses (ICN), WHO: Occupational Health   +25 more
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Appearance of Clostridium difficile infections in health care institutions in Slovakia and in the district of martin

Acta Medica Martiniana, 2018
Introduction: Decrease of nonspecific imunity in patients and the treatment with broad spectrum antibiotics form appropriate conditions for the appearance of medically severe Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) - enterocolitis that can have the ...
Novak M, Mazakova I, Sadlonova V, Cervenova T, Hudeckova H.   +4 more
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The role of microbiology and pharmacy departments in the stewardship of antibiotic prescribing in European hospitals [PDF]

, 2007
This observational, cross-sectional study describes the role played by clinical microbiology and pharmacy departments in the stewardship of antibiotic prescribing in European hospitals.
Bruce, Julie, Cookson, Barry, Gould, I.M., Krcmery, Vladimir, MacKenzie, Fiona, Mollison, Jill, Monnet, Dominique L., van der Meer, Jos W.M.   +7 more
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Comparison of reorganized versus unaltered cardiology departments during the COVID-19 era: A subanalysis of the COV-HF-SIRIO 6 study

Cardiology Journal, 2023
Background: Since the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, numerous cardiology departments were reorganized to provide care for COVID-19 patients.
Małgorzata Ostrowska, Michał Kasprzak, Wioleta Stolarek, Klaudyna Grzelakowska, Jacek Kryś, Aldona Kubica, Piotr Adamski, Przemysław Podhajski, Eliano Pio Navarese, Edyta Anielska-Michalak, Oliwia Matuszewska-Brycht, Andrzej Curzytek, Aneta Dudek, Leszek Gromadziński, Paweł Grzelakowski, Leszek Kamiński, Andrzej Kleinrok, Marcin Kostkiewicz, Marek Koziński, Paweł Król, Tomasz Kulawik, Gleb Minczew, Marcin Mindykowski, Agnieszka Pawlak, Janusz Prokopczuk, Grzegorz Skonieczny, Bożena Sobkowicz, Sergiusz Sowiński, Sebastian Stankala, Paweł Szymański, Andrzej Wester, Przemysław Wilczewski, Stanisław Bartuś, Andrzej Budaj, Robert Gajda, Mariusz Gąsior, Marcin Gruchała, Jarosław Drożdż, Miłosz Jaguszewski, Piotr Jankowski, Jacek Legutko, Maciej Lesiak, Przemysław Leszek, Przemysław Mitkowski, Jadwiga Nessler, Anna Tomaszuk-Kazberuk, Agnieszka Tycińska, Tomasz Zdrojewski, Jarosław Kaźmierczak, Jacek Kubica   +49 more
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Current state of antimicrobial stewardship in children’s hospital emergency departments [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) effectively optimize antibiotic use for inpatients; however, the extent of emergency department (ED) involvement in ASPs has not been described.
Dayan, Peter S, Gerber, Jeffrey S, Hersh, Adam L, Kuppermann, Nathan, May, Larissa, Mistry, Rakesh D, Newland, Jason G, Perman, Sarah M   +7 more
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Household food insecurity positively associated with increased hospital charges for infants [PDF]

, 2019
Objective: To test whether household food insecurity (HFI) was associated with total annual hospitalization charges, annual days hospitalized, and charges per day, among low-income infants (months) with any non-neonatal hospital stays.
Bovell-Ammon, Allison R, Casey, Patrick H., Coleman, Sharon, Cook, John T., Cutts, Diana, Ettinger de Cuba, Stephanie, Frank, Deborah A., Heeren, Timothy C.   +7 more
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Facilitators and barriers to collaboration between pre-hospital emergency and emergency department in traffic accidents: a qualitative study

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2023
Background Death caused by traffic accidents is one of the major problems of health systems in low- and middle-income countries. Rapid handover of the traffic accident victims and proper collaboration between the pre-hospital and emergency departments ...
Hasan Jamshidi, Reza Khani Jazani, Ali Khani Jeihooni, Ahmad Alibabaei, Shahram Alamdari, Majid Najafi Kalyani   +5 more
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A decision support system for demand and capacity modelling of an accident and emergency department [PDF]

, 2019
© 2019 Operational Research Society.Accident and emergency (A&E) departments in England have been struggling against severe capacity constraints. In addition, A&E demands have been increasing year on year. In this study, our aim was to develop a decision
Demir, Eren, Ordu, Muhammed, Tofallis, Christopher   +2 more
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Outcome of Poisoning and Associated Factors Among Patients Admitted at Referral Hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia, 2022: A Multicenter Retrospective Study

Open Access Emergency Medicine, 2023
Gashachew Bayleyegn Reda,1 Hailemichael Kindie Abate,2 Hidja Mustofa Mekonnen,1 Agerie Zerihun Gared,1 Zerko Wako Beko2 1Department of Emergency and Critical Care Nursing, School of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar ...
Reda GB, Abate HK, Mekonnen HM, Gared AZ, Beko ZW   +4 more
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Effects of post-abortion family planning services on contraceptive practices in China : protocol for a clustered randomized controlled trial [PDF]

, 2017
Study objectives: To determine whether integrating post-abortion services in hospital settings in China will increase the contraceptive use and decrease repeat abortion rates. Study design: Three-arms cluster randomised controlled trial in which the unit
Li, Jiong, Olsen, Jørn, Temmerman, Marleen, Wang, Shuchen, Zhang, Wei Hong   +4 more
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