Medical Supplies
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13. Proposta de modelo de gerenciamento de risco aplicado ao desempenho de equipamentos eletromedicos em estabelecimentos assistenciais de saude / Proposal of risk management model applied to the performance of medical device in hospitals
There is growing concern of the health professionals for the safety of their teams and the patients in the hospital environment. Among the factors that affect the safety are the hazards resulting from functional problems of medical electrical equipments (MEEs), that can happen during its useful life. With the objective of reducing the functional risks of tho
Publicado em: 2004
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14. Hantaviruses Clinical and serologicalsurvey in Ribeirão Preto, SP / "Estudo clínico-epidemiológico sobre a hantavirose na região de Ribeirão Preto, SP"
The hantaviruses are zoonoses of wild rodents that cause serious human diseases: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Asia and Europe (10 to 12% lethality rates) and Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Syndrome in the American continent (HPCVS - 59% lethality rate). Hantaviruses (family Bunyaviridae) are enclosing viruses that measure 120 nm approximately, they
Publicado em: 2002
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15. Medical Aspects of the Westward Migrations, 1830-60 *
The exodus to the West which occurred in 1830-60, partly due to the discovery of gold in California in 1849, is examined from a medicohistorical viewpoint. The motivations of the emigrants, their medical emergencies, problems, and practices, and the state of the medical arts in the Western settlements are discussed in terms of the prevailing systems of thera
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16. An information system and medical record to support HIV treatment in rural Haiti
Lack of infrastructure, including information and communication systems, is considered a barrier to successful HIV treatment programmes in resource poor areas. The authors describe how they set up a web based medical record system linking remote areas in rural Haiti and how it is used to track clinical outcomes, laboratory tests, and drug supplies and to cre
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd..
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17. Surge Capacity for Response to Bioterrorism in Hospital Clinical Microbiology Laboratories
Surge capacity is the ability to rapidly mobilize to meet an increased demand. While large amounts of federal funding have been allocated to public health laboratories, little federal funding has been allocated to hospital microbiology laboratories. There are concerns that hospital laboratories may have inadequate surge capacities to deal with a significant
American Society for Microbiology.
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18. Abuse of prescription drugs.
An estimated 3% of the United States population deliberately misuse or abuse psychoactive medications, with severe consequences. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, more than half of patients who sought treatment or died of drug-related medical problems in 1989 were abusing prescription drugs. Physicians who contribute to this problem have bee
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19. A survey of computer search service costs in the academic health sciences library.
The Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California, has recently completed an extensive survey of costs involved in the provision of computer search services beyond vendor charges for connect time and printing. In this survey costs for such items as terminal depreciation, repair contract, personnel time, and supplies are analyzed. Implications of
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20. The structure of the market for physicians' services.
In this paper, structural equations for the supply of and the demand for general practitioners' services are derived. Two variants of the model, based on alternative specifications of the role of health insurance, are tested, using data drawn from the American Medical Association's Eighth Periodic Survey of Physicians (PSP8). While results of the estimation
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21. Infant mortality in SMSAs before Medicaid: test of a causal model.
Path analysis is applied to data on infant mortality, supplies of physicians and hospital beds, and population percentages of blacks and low-income families in 201 standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs) to test the hypothesis that medical resources mediate the effects of racial composition and low income on infant mortality rates. The hypothesis is
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22. LATCH at the Washington Hospital Center, 1967-1975.
Immediate access to needed information is essential if medical personnel are to provide quality health care. At the Washington Hospital Center, Literature Attached to Charts, LATCH, was created in 1967 to provide the required information quickly. As a collection of a few relevant articles attached to the patient's chart, it supplies current literature on som
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23. The Nature of the Use and Users of the Midwest Regional Medical Library *
Using a 10 percent random sample of all requests submitted to the Midwest Regional Medical Library during 1968-1969, this study has revealed that physicians constitute the user group making the most requests, that physicians request periodical materials most, that 86.6 percent of materials requested were for periodicals, and that over one-third of materials
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24. Library use and information-seeking behavior of veterinary medical students revisited in the electronic environment.
Veterinary medical students at Iowa State University were surveyed in January of 1997 to determine their general use of the Veterinary Medical Library and how they sought information in an electronic environment. Comparisons were made between this study and one conducted a decade ago to determine the effect of the growth in electronic resources on student li