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Healthcare reform in Russia: problems and prospects [PDF]

, 2007
This paper examines the prospects for reform of Russia’s healthcare system. It begins by exploring a number of fundamental imbalances that characterise the current half-reformed system of healthcare provision before going on to assess the government’s ...
Tompson, William
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Evaluation of the burden of unsuspected pulmonary tuberculosis and co-morbidity with non-communicable diseases in sputum producing adult inpatients [PDF]

, 2012
A high burden of tuberculosis (TB) occurs in sub-Saharan African countries and many cases of active TB and drug-resistant TB remain undiagnosed. Tertiary care hospitals provide an opportunity to study TB co-morbidity with non-communicable and other ...
Alimuddin Zumla, Andrea Rachow, Busiku Cheelo, John Tembo, Judith Mzyece, Justin O’Grady, Lophina Chilukutu, Lukundo Mukonda, Markus Maeurer, Matthew Bates, Maxwell Mumba, Michael Hoelscher, Moses Chilufya, Mumba Chomba, Nathan Kapata, Olivier Neyrolles, Peter Mwaba, Petra Clowes   +17 more
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Occurrence of Needlestick and Injuries among Health-care Workers of a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in North India

Journal of Laboratory Physicians, 2017
Introduction: Occupational hazards such as accidental exposure to sharp, cuts, and splashes are common among health-care workers (HCWs). Aims and Objectives: To determine the occurrence of self-reported occupational exposures to these hazards and to know
Varun Goel, D. Kumar, Raghavendra Lingaiah, Sarman Singh   +3 more
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New Zealand emergency nurses knowledge about forensic science and its application to practice [PDF]

, 2020
Violence is a major public health problem worldwide. Emergency nurses are often in a unique position to identify, assess, evaluate, and treat these patients, but there is limited forensic knowledge and skills to enable emergency nurses to feel confident ...
Donaldson, Andrea
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Prediction of early unplanned intensive care unit readmission in a UK tertiary care hospital: a cross-sectional machine learning approach

BMJ Open, 2017
Objectives Unplanned readmissions to the intensive care unit (ICU) are highly undesirable, increasing variance in care, making resource planning difficult and potentially increasing length of stay and mortality in some settings.
Thomas Desautels, R. Das, J. Calvert, M. Trivedi, C. Summers, D. Wales, A. Ercole   +6 more
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Profile of Proptosis in a Tertiary Care Centre

Delhi Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020
Purpose- Proptosis is forward protrusion of eye ball. Due to its varied presentation, a profile of these cases would be helpful for an ophthalmologist to understand the spectrum of etio-pathology and thus take an early measure to save vision and even life of a patient. Material and Methods-
Mukhopadhyay U, Chandana Chakraborti, Chisthi Rosy, Tripathi P, Majumdar S   +4 more
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Hospital surge capacity in a tertiary emergency referral centre during the COVID‐19 outbreak in Italy

Anaesthesia, 2020
The first person‐to‐person transmission of the 2019 novel coronavirus in Italy on 21 February 2020 led to an infection chain that represents one of the largest known COVID‐19 outbreaks outside Asia. In northern Italy in particular, we rapidly experienced
L. Carenzo, E. Costantini, M. Greco, F. L. Barra, V. Rendiniello, M. Mainetti, R. Bui, A. Zanella, G. Grasselli, M. Lagioia, A. Protti, M. Cecconi   +11 more
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Spectrum of hemoglobinopathies in a tertiary care centre

Journal of Pathology of Nepal, 2020
Background: Thalassemia and other structural hemoglobinopathies are the most common single gene disorders throughout the world with the highest frequency in the tropics, subtropics, Mediterranean basin and Southeast Asia. This study aims to provide a better assessment on the spectrum of hemoglobinopathies in our context.
Usha Manandhar, Anil Dev Pant, Nisha Sharma   +2 more
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Caesarean Section among Referred and Self-Referred Birthing Women: A Cohort Study from a Tertiary Hospital, Northeastern Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2011
The inequity in emergency obstetric care access in Tanzania is unsatisfactory. Despite an existing national obstetric referral system, many birthing women bypass referring facilities and go directly to higher-level care centres.
A Jahn, C Hunger, C Ronsmans, DJ Brennan, EJ Kongnyuy, EM Mcclure, FP McCarthy, H Prytherch, Ingvil K Sørbye, Johanne Sundby, KM Moland, ME Kruk, MS Robson, MS Robson, National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania], National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania] MoHaSWTaMII2, Olola Oneko, P Bergsjo, P Bergsjo, Per Bergsjø, PS Muganyizi, Siri Vangen   +21 more
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Theological Foundations of Pastoral Care in Catholic Universities [PDF]

, 2017
One defining element of life in any Catholic educational institution, whether it be primary, secondary, or tertiary, is the focus on pastoral care for staff and students.
Gourlay, Thomas V
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