A brief questionnaire was mailed to State health department directors. All 50 States responded, although the respondents represented varying disciplines and staff responsibilities within the health departments or were from agencies that the State had designated to investigate elder abuse. These data should...
The Orange County Confidential Morbidity Report (CMR) form, used by providers to report any reportable disease or condition, has been revised to reflect updates in reporting procedures following changes at the state public health department level. This revision is the first major revision of the CMR...
Changes to TB surveillance reporting.Mentions the Tuberculosis Information Management System (TIMS) software. Development and distribution by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Contact point.EBSCO_AspJama Journal of the American Medical Association...
Where standards of infection control are deficient or lacking in both developed and developing countries, hospital patients and staff are vulnerable to serious infection. Of note, TB and hepatitis B exposure is common among health care workers, but preventable through airborne precautions and vaccination...
Attitudes to and experiences of reporting poor care Surveys in the UK and USA show that error in health care is unacceptably high. It is also known, however, that considerable under-reporting of error takes ... J Firth‐Cozens,RA Firth,S Booth - 《Clinical Governance An International Journal...
Racial disparities in health care access in the United States. In: The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. John Wiley & Sons; 2014:1-8. 8. Yearby R. Racial disparities in health status and access to healthcare: the continuation of inequality in the ...
In his editorial "Evening primrose oil for atopic dermatitis - Time to say goodnight", Williams reported that he and his colleague, who had performed an individual patient meta-analysis of evening primrose oil for atopic dermatitis commissioned by the UK Department of Health, were not given permis...
1 will be pleased to know that the state of Victoria collects considerable data on surgical outcomes. Since 2001, the Department of Health's Victorian Surgical Consultative Council (VSCC; http://www:health.vic.gov.au/yscc/) has monitored surgical outcomes in the state's public hospitals. ...
and alcoholic social mixing during their pre-diagnostic reference period. TB diagnostic status of the contacts with RAU were tracked and confirmed through documentation verification at health facilities. Relationship types of contacts with RAU were classified into family, extended family, friendship, neighb...
The need to challenge messages that reinforce harmful negative discourses around sexual risk and responsibility is a priority in improving sexual health. The mass media are an important source of information regularly alerting, updating and influencing p