Urban hospital
Assessment of care provision for hypertension at the emergency Department of an Urban Hospital in Mozambique
... first urban hospital, in a context of health facility barriers to good quality of care for hypertensive patients, particularly i) the lack of availability of guidelines and clinical protocols for management ...
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Role of family physicians in an urban hospital
... regionalization, hospital care has become specialized, more acute, and less accessible to urban family ...immediate hospital follow-up, long-term cancer survivorship care, comprehensive pal- liative ...
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Predictive Factors of Hyponatremia in Under Five Severely Malnourished Children with Pneumonia Admitted to a Large Urban Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Nested Case Control Design
... ongoing hospital-based cohort of all children under 5 years of age presenting with severe acute malnu- trition [defined by the WHO [28] as a very low weight- for-height ratio (below −3 z scores of the median WHO ...
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Patient satisfaction with the laborist model of care in a large urban hospital
... Further, in order to compare patient satisfaction before and after implementation of laborists, Press-Ganey results from before (January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2007) and after (January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2010) ...
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The Hospital’s role within a regional disaster response: A Comparison study of an urban hospital versus a rural hospital
... develops hospital management systems and standards, a disaster is defined as a community-wide event that disrupts the healthcare system and critical infrastructure of the community (Bonnett et ...
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Analysis of trauma admission data at an urban hospital in Maputo, Mozambique
... Traumatic injuries contribute significantly to the burden of disease in Mozambique, especially in the capital city Maputo. This study likely underestimates the true preva- lence of traumatic injuries in Maputo as it ...
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A cohort analysis of neonatal hospital mortality rate and predictors of neonatal mortality in a sub-urban hospital of Cameroon
... Neonatal infections were diagnosed based on the pres- ence of infectious risk factors (prolonged rupture of membranes, maternal fever around the delivery period, maternal urogenital infections during the last month of ...
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Bacteraemia in patients admitted to an urban hospital in West Africa
... ardized questionnaire to record socio-demographic characteristics, clinical symptoms, tobacco and alcohol use, prior antibiotics, steroid and immunosuppressive agents use, history of concurrent medical conditions (e.g. ...
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Antimicrobial susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae in adult patients with pneumococcal pneumonia in an urban hospital in Mozambique
... Central Hospital ( Hospital Central da Beira : HCB), a 932-bed govern- mental referral health facility with 260 internal medicine beds, located in the coastal capital of the central Sofala province of the ...
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Acute Isoniazid Neurotoxicity in an Urban Hospital
... Acute INH neurotoxicity should be considered in children presenting with seizures with or without fever. Seizures should be considered to be caused by INH until proven otherwise in patie[r] ...
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A Study on Knowledge, Perceptions and Attitudes about Screening and Diagnosis of Diabetes in Saudi Population
... Introduction: Needle stick injury is common amongst health care workers, particularly those who perform invasive procedures like collection of blood and insertion of canulae in patients. These pose significant risks of ...
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Injury Outcomes in Elderly Patients Admitted at an Urban African Hospital
... use, hospital length of stay, and cost were ...of hospital stay was 24 days, cost of treatment ...overall hospital mortality rate was ...of hospital stay and fewer predictors of mortality ...
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The Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B Virus Among Children Attending Urban and Rural Hospitals
... Among the 17 (10.5%) HBsAg positive cases in urban hospital, 13 (14.6%) had past history of inoculation within last 6 months and 4 (5.5%) had no such history (Table V). This is statistically significant (P ...
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Parental Literacy Level and Understanding of Medical Information
... an urban hospital- based ambulatory care center (Children’s National Medical Cen- ter, General Pediatric Ambulatory Center), an urban health main- tenance organization (HMO) pediatric ambulatory care ...
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Primary care physicians’ experiences with electronic medical records
... in urban, hospital, and academic settings made better use of their professional networks for procurement advice and experiential feedback, whereas community physi- cians might not have developed such ...
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Parental Literacy Level and Understanding of Medical Information
... an urban hospital- based ambulatory care center (Children’s National Medical Cen- ter, General Pediatric Ambulatory Center), an urban health main- tenance organization (HMO) pediatric ambulatory care ...
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Adolescent deliveries in semi urban Cameroon: prevalence and adverse neonatal outcomes
... In developing countries like Cameroon, the burden due to adolescent pregnancies is high with recent stud- ies showing a prevalence range of 9.3–9.9% in urban and suburban areas [2, 5]. In some regions of the ...
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Applying the benefits of biophilic theory to hospital design
... the hospital has in contemporary society, but also to the recovery of values that are no longer just quantitative and functional, contrary to what happened until the first half of the 20th ...
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The professional role of massage therapists in patient care in Canadian urban hospitals – a mixed methods study
... Working in a hospital setting requires some practical adaptations of massage practice from the standard ap- proach used in the private health care setting [32,33]. However, hospitals also pose unique challenges ...
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Assessment of Traffic Noise Pollutions Outside School, Residential, Hospital and Commercial Areas along Jalan Kluang, Batu Pahat, Johor
... as hospital environment which all of these points were considered noise sensitive receiver ...as urban area. In this study, three urban residential areas and a commercial area was chosen for the ...
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