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Diagnostic, Care and Treatment Support Services. Volume 2: Improving Quality & Safety of Health Services.
National Health Quality Standards. Standards and Guidelines for Hospital Standards. Volume 2
Health Care Organisational Management. Volume 1: Improving Quality & Safety of Health Services.
National Health Quality Standards. Standards and Guidelines for Hospital Standards. Volume 1
Ancillary and Occupational Services. Volume 3: Improving Quality & Safety of Health Services. National Health Quality Standards. Standards and Guidelines for Hospital Standards. Volume 3
District hospital level Severe | Malaria is a Medical Emergency
CDC’s Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs suggests that pharmacists review antibiotic therapy that is unnecessarily duplicative, including the use of agents with overlapping spectra. The combination of two agents with anaerobic activity is unnecessary in most cases. Exception...s may include Clostridioides difficile infection, necrotizing fasciitis, and certain biliary infections.
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The spread of antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms poses anincreasing threat to affordable modern health care. In the Netherlands, efforts to control the dispersal of known and novel antimicrobial-resistant organisms have been mostly implemented at the hospital level. However, recent studies have ...recommended shifting the focus of control strategies fromsingle hospitals toward larger healthcare networks. These networks consist of clusters of hospitals that are connected viashared patients. Several studies have shown that patients transferred from one hospital to another can spread antimicrobial-resistant pathogens across the healthcare network
infection control & hospital epidemiology july 2016, vol. 37, no. 7
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To help health- and social-system leaders as they respond to unprecedented challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic, teams from the McMaster Health Forum and Ottawa Hospital Research Institute – as part of their contribution to RISE – and the Africa Centre for Evidence have compiled a list of... evidence sources.
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Death investigation form tuberculosis: Hospital Unit, Urgency and Emergency Unit
Revista Médica del Hospital General de México, Vol. 81. Issue 3.Pages 154-164 (July - September 2018)
Chagas disease is a parasitic zoonosis caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a protozoan whose transmission to humans is primarily vector-borne. It is estimated that 6–8 million people worldwide are inf...ected and that 65–100 million people are at risk of becoming infected. Its clinical spectrum is very broad. During the acute phase, non-specific manifestations develop that may go unnoticed. During the chronic phase, specific manifestations develop that are diagnosed late and increase the morbidity and mortality of those suffering from it.
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