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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Academic teaching hospitals"”.
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Opinions and practices of medical specialists concerning medical genetic services at the Pietersburg and Mankweng academic teaching hospitals in the Limpopo Province
Globally, approximately 7.9 million children are born annually with a genetic or partially genetic condition, with an estimated 3.3 million children under the age of five dying because of a serious congenital disorder (World Health Organization & March of Dimes, 2006). Early diagnosis and …
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Does decreased research funding from the National Institutes of Health to local academic hospitals cause an increase in industry sponsored research funding?
… stalwart of research funding at universities and academic teaching hospitals. However, since the start of the last decade NIH funding has contracted in real terms. Anticipating future Federal Government fiscal austerity, the situation appears unlikely to improve and most likely will become worse. …
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An evaluation of implementing integrated palliative care at an academic teaching hospital
… Care is presently being integrated within an academic teaching hospital in South Africa. The World Health Organisation has stated that palliative care is an ethical responsibility of health systems. However, despite a National Policy Framework and Strategy for Palliative Care, there is a …
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The need for standardization: Intraprofessional communication among physicians during handoffs in hospital settings
… life is on the line. A study involving 28 hospitals reviewed the causes of adverse events and found that communication errors were the leading underlying cause, associated with twice as many deaths as was clinical inadequacy (Wilson, Runciman, Gibberd, Harrison, & Hamilton, 1995). Although …