Objective--To determine the nature and rate of drug administration errors in one National Health Service hospital. Design--Covert observational survey be tween January and April 1993 of drug rounds with intervention to stop drug administration errors reaching the patient. Setting...
Ver documentoA course for medical record administration (MRA) students has been developed at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences Library. The course's objectives are: (1) to train students in the use of the resources and services of health sciences libraries and (2) to ...
Ver documentoThe drugs are fundamental in care, considered essential in palliative symptomatic treatment and healing of various diseases. However, they can cause serious adverse reactions, and are susceptible to errors; which occur very frequently in hospitals. Thus, the following study has t...
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Ver documentoTrends and district variations in the pre-hospital and hospital care of children aged 0-14 years admitted with acute asthma were surveyed in all 13 districts of a health region by examining case notes for 1970, 1978, and 1985. From 1970 to 1985 there was a substantial increase in...
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Ver documentoThe configuration and administration volunteering in hospital institutions of the Third Sector in Londrina s county is the central point of this work. The objective of this research is to build up new references for volunteering administration. The challenge of accomplishing a cr...
Ver documentoA simple combined intravenous/intramuscular regimen is described for lignocaine administration in the early vulnerable stage of myocardial infarction. Plasma levels in the therapeutic range are attained. This allows adequate drug protection during transport to hospital when an in...
Ver documentoThis study examines hospital characteristics that affect the differential in hospital mortality. Death rates for 1984 Medicare inpatients in acute care hospitals, released by the Health Care Financing Administration in 1986, were analyzed. A confirmatory statistical approach to o...
Ver documentoIn March 1986, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) released ten lists of death-rate "outlier" hospitals, one for all 1984 Medicare discharges and nine for specific DRGs. Recent Medicare hospital discharge abstracts have substantially undercounted in-hospital deaths, w...
Ver documentoSince a sizeable hospital must have a library, it must have a library committee. Like all hospital committees, this one is to help maintain standards of medical care and to mediate between staff and administration. Unlike others, it clusters around one elected member (the chairma...
Ver documentoThe cooperative acquisition and retention of health sciences journals by a group of small and medium-sized Veterans Administration hospital libraries is described. The "holder of record" system emphasizes a contractual agreement that has freed resources for expansion of the group...
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