Teaching hospital ‘totally wrong’ on equality job search
A major teaching trust’s recruitment of a new equality, diversity and inclusion director role has been criticised after candidates were given just 10 days to apply for a temporary role. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - July 17, 2020 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Intimate partner violence among postpartum women at a teaching hospital in Nigeria's Federal Capital City: pattern and materno-fetal outcomes - Akaba GO, Abdullahi HI.
BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence is an important public health and human rights issue. Previous studies have considered intimate partner violence in pregnancy mainly among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics thereby missing out a few who may en... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 16, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Violence and Weapons Issues Source Type: news
Nigeria: Doctors Down Tools At Isolation Centre
[Premium Times] Resident doctors working at the COVID-19 isolation centre at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State, have embarked on an indefinite industrial action. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 16, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
A study on incidence and patterns of acute poisoning cases in an emergency department of western region of Nepal - Acharya K, Kandel IS, Gupta S, Poudel SD.
The objective of our study is to evaluate the incidence and pattern of acute poisoning cases admitted to the Gandaki Medical Teaching Hospital.
Methods: This is cross-se... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
When hospitals Harm: Multi-modal entry of SARS-CoV-2 into inpatient healthcare
The primary infection prevention goal for acute care hospitals is to ensure the safety of the patients, families, care team members, and support staff within its walls. Detection of nosocomial transmission of illness signals a failure somewhere along the way with measures in use to prevent such occurrences. There is a paucity of descriptions of nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the acute care setting, and thus, we recognize the importance of the paper, Nosocomial transmission of COVID-19: a retrospective study of 66 hospital-acquired cases in a London teaching hospital, by Rickman et al, published in this issue of C...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - July 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
