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... Delta. ivVIET NAM: A TRANSITION TIGER ?National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-PublicationVan Arkadie, Brian.Viet Nam : a transition tiger? New ed.Includes index.ISBN 0 9751229 ... were overambitious. During the last 15 years, Viet Nam was repeatedly1 8VIET NAM:A TRANSITION TIGER ?old institutions as a prelude to the installation of new mechanisms, manyreforms were directed ... the pre-reform period. Should aspects of policy in the pre-Doi Moi 20VIET NAM:A TRANSITION TIGER ?With particularly high population densities and productive land, yields perhectare are...
... of care, arising from contract and/or tort laws, to their patients. e duty of care demands the practitioner provides a professional service with reasonable skill and care - a standard of care ... court (Box 1).Standard of care e requisite standard of care is reasonable skills and care reasonably expected of a practitioner with the same standing. e standard of care is diff erent in cases ... critical care ultrasound certi cation program. We examine various issues that can potentially lead to a breach of the standard of care, hence exposing the practitioners and/or the healthcare...
... only four of 23 registeredacute care hospitals in Goma cared for a total of 7,048victims of sexual violence admitted during a 22 monthsperiod. Resources to care for sexually abused femaleswere ... onlyfew victims.Interestingly, the four health care facilities which wereidentified out of all acute care hospitals in Goma to pro-vide regular care for sexually abused women were all runby ... specialized centers to provide care for victimsof sexual violence in Goma. Finally, the local health care authorities selected the four institutions as referralcenters for the care of sexually abused...
... Glasgow Coma Score, all laboratory val-ues and level of care (full care, full care without cardiopulmo-nary resuscitation (CPR), comfort care) . Severity of illness atinception (within the first ... to 1.14) 0.846 1.49 (1.40 to 1.59) <0.001Level of care NS NSFull care 1.00Full care, but no CPR 1.23 (1.09 to 1.39) 0.001Comfort care 1.35 (1.07 to 1.70) 0.010*Time-independent (age, ... Schreuder WO, Strack van Schijndel RJ, Thijs LG:Hypernatremia in the intensive care unit: an indicator of qualityof care? Crit Care Med 1999, 27:1105-1108.12. Lindner G, Funk GC, Schwarz C, Kneidinger...
... Critical Care Vol 11 No 5 van Lieshout et al.Page 2 of 6(page number not for citation purposes)the critical care environment [12]. Unfortunately, studies ... Schultz1,61Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands2Mobile Intensive Care Unit, Academic Medical ... hospitalrestrictions on the use of mobile phones in patient areas,which is violated by healthcare workers themselves to improvepatient care by better communication [8]. Critical incidentscaused by mobile phones...
... particular atrial fibrillation, in surgical intensive care patients. Crit Care Med 2003, 31:401-405.84. Donovan KD, Hockings BE: Shocking? Crit Care Med 2003, 31:639-640.85. Dunning J: Are the ... rhythm control.Crit Care 2004, 8:271-279.10. Seguin P, Laviolle B, Maurice A, Leclercq C, Malledant Y: Atrialfibrillation in trauma patients requiring intensive care. Inten-sive Care Med 2006, ... intensive care unit: a case-controlled epidemiologic study. Intensive Care Med 2000, 26: 908-914.15. Stricker KH, Rothen HU, Fuhrer J: Atrial tachyarrhythmia aftercardiac surgery. Intensive Care...
... intensive care unit.Crit Care Med 2004, 32:428-432.80. Stambouly JJ, McLaughlin LL, Mandel FS, Boxer RA: Complica-tions of care in a pediatric intensive care unit: a prospectivestudy. Intensive Care ... JT, Czeisler CA, Bates DW:The Critical Care Safety Study: The incidence and nature ofadverse events and serious medical errors in intensive care. Crit Care Med 2005, 33:1694-1700.8. Pharmacy-nursing ... approximately 6% per day [25,84]Multiple care providersChallenges the integration of different care plans [83]ADE, adverse drug event; ICU, intensive care unit. 55. Lesar TS, Briceland LL,...
... Respir Crit Care Med 2001, 3:396-402.11. BalcI C, Sungurtekin H, Gurses E, Sungurtekin U, Kaptanoglu B:Usefulness of procalcitonin for diagnosis of sepsis in inten-sive care unit. Crit Care 2003, ... follows the recommendations of the taskforce of the American College of Critical Care Medicine of theSociety of Critical Care Medicine [23]: blood cultures weretaken if a patient's body temperature ... Curr Opin Crit Care 2002, 8:465-472.2. Bone RC, Balk RA, Cerra FB, Dellinger RP, Fein AM, Knaus WA,Schein RM, Sibbald WJ: American College of Chest Physi-cians/Society of Critical Care Medicine...
... Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Intensive Care Med 1996, 22:707-710.18. Knaus WA, Draper EA, Wagner DP, Zimmerman JE: APACHE II: aseverity of disease classification system. Crit Care Med 1985,13:818-829.19. ... shock:2008. Crit Care Med 2008, 36:296-327.20. Institute for Healthcare Improvement webpage [http://www.ihi.org]21. Kress JP, Pohlman AS, Hall JB: Sedation and analgesia in theintensive care unit. ... http://ccforum.com/content/12/3/R70Page 9 of 9(page number not for citation purposes)ical Care Medicine (ACCM) of the Society of Critical Care Medi-cine (SCCM), American Society of Health-System Pharmacists(ASHP),...
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... Critical Care Directorate and Professor, Department of Medicine and Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research, University College London, Middlesex Hospital, London, UK3Consultant, Intensive Care ... CPOE.IntroductionMedication errors (MEs) in the intensive care unit (ICU) arecommon and can arise from a number of causes. A large studyfrom two tertiary care hospitals reported the error rate washighest ... protocols and bedside decisionsupport. Crit Care Clin 1999, 15:523-545.8. Dean B, Barber N, Schachter M: What is a prescribing error?Qual Health Care 2000, 9:232-237.9. Dean BS, Barber ND:...
... assurance survey.Crit Care 2001, 5:271-275.10. Price MB, Grant MJ, Welkie K: Financial impact of elimination ofroutine chest radiographs in a pediatric intensive care unit.Crit Care Med 1999, 27:1588-1593.11. ... George RB: Value of rou-tine daily chest x-rays in the medical intensive care unit. Crit Care Med 1985, 13:534-536. Critical Care Vol 10 No 1 Graat et al.Page 4 of 7(page number not for citation ... Williams SV, Kun-del HL: Routine portable chest radiographs in the medicalintensive care unit: effects and costs. Crit Care Med 1997,25:801-805.6. Silverstein DS, Livingston DH, Elcavage J, Kovar...
... care and general care units. Crit Care Med 1997, 25:1289-1297.12. Herout PM, Erstad BL: Medication errors involving continuouslyinfused medications in a surgical intensive care unit. Crit Care Med ... intensive care units.Pediatr Crit Care Med 2004, 5:124-132.30. Potts AL, Barr FE, Gregory DF, Wright L, Patel NR: Computerizedphysician order entry and medication errors in a pediatric crit-ical care ... Care Department, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium5Professor in Pharmacy, Head of Pharmacy Department, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium6Professor in Intensive Care, Head of Intensive Care...