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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Tygerberg"”.
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A physical development plan for the Tygerberg Hills area
It has been aptly said that one thing in the world is invincible .... an idea whose time has come. Such an idea in our days, I believe, is the care of man's ancestral home .... the natural environment. However, our country is still in a pioneering stage in so far as it, up till now, accepts the …
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An assessment of comprehensive dental treatment provided under general anaesthesia at Tygerberg Oral Health Centre
There are several categories of dental problems in children that cannot be treated optimally in the office settings and are best managed in the hospital theatre. The ability to treat children in the hospital environment in order to provide comprehensive dental care using general anaesthesia(GA) is …
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Aspects of the structure, tectonic evolution and sedimentation of the Tygerberg terrane, southwestern Cape Province
… Signal Hill and Bloubergstrand exposures of the Tygerberg Formation, Malmesbury Group, has been undertaken, through the application of developed geomathematical, digital and graphical computer-based techniques, encompassing the fields of tectonic strain determination, fold shape classification, …
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Evaluation of TP53 and IGHV clinical molecular prognostic testing for patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia at Tygerberg Hospital
… of IGHV mutational status in CLL patients at Tygerberg Hospital (TBH). Material & Methods: TP53 variant analysis was determined via bi-directional Sanger Sequencing of PCR-amplified complementary DNA (cDNA) obtained from reverse transcription of extracted total ribonucleic acid (RNA), …
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Aetiology and outcome of patients burned from 2003 to 2008 at the Tygerberg Hospital burns unit, Western Cape, SA
… and outcome of patients who were treated at the Tygerberg Burn unit. A total of 1908 patients were admitted to the burn unit during the 6 year period under review. Most fatal injuries occurred in the 20 to 40 year age group. Injuries due to shack fires and fuel stoves comprised 21% (399) of all …
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Retinopathy of prematurity screening criteria and work load implications at Tygerberg Children's Hospital, South Africa: A cross-sectional study
… criteria, and its workload implications, for Tygerberg Children's Hospital (TCH), South Africa. Methods This cross-sectional study included premature infants screened for ROP, at TCH (1 January 2009 to 31 December 2014). Logistic regression for prediction and classification were performed. …
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Is the composition of staff within Tygerberg administration in terms of employment equity, representative of the demographics of the Western Cape from 05/01/2000 - 31/12/2001?
… education and experience. All the Directors of Tygerberg Administration who responded to the questionnaires supported this and all of them agreed that training is necessary for all employees, especially the previously discriminated groups. The primary objective of Affirmative Action can …
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Investigating the role of alcohol in road traffic collision fatalities in Western Cape, South Africa
… in five of the major mortuaries (Salt River, Tygerberg, Paarl, Worcester and George) in the Western Cape Province between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2017. Cases were extracted from the Western Cape Forensic Pathology Service (FPS) internal database, which included demographic and crash …
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Maternal health : cost analysis of introducing the Umbiflow Velocity Doppler System at primary health level : a pilot study conducted at Kraaifontein Community Health Centre and Durbanville Day Clinic
… sectional analytical study was conducted in the Tygerberg Eastern Health District of the Metro Region of Western Cape, South Africa at two primary health care (PHC) facilities, one secondary level hospital, and one tertiary hospital namely Kraaifontein Community Health Centre (CHC), Durbanville …
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A comparison of two saliva substitutes in the management of xerostomia during radiotherapy for cancer of the head and neck
… neck, following four weeks of radiotherapy at tygerberg hospital. The benefit of saliva substitutes to ameliorate the effects of xerostomia is well established and proper advice and access to relevant preparations is essential.
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An investigation into the experiences of mixed ancestry parents with a preschool child with down syndrome
… War Memorial Children's Hospital (RCWMCH) and Tygerberg Hospital (TBH) have specialised services that are offered to children with DS and their parents.
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Violence In Nursing: Perceived Prevalence and Impact in Community Health Clinics In Cape Town
… the Cape Town Metropole Health District, namely Tygerberg, Mitchell‟s Plain and Klipfontein, Southern, Eastern, Western and Northern sub-districts. Categories of nurses that participated in the study were Professional Nurses (RN), Clinical Nurse Practitioners (CNP), Unit Mangers (UM), Registered …
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Survival, virological and immunological outcomes of HIV-infected children accessing ART at South African primary health care clinics
… children are ongoing through decentralization. Tygerberg Hospital physicians with training in pediatric HIV management are providing care in seven community-based primary health care (PHC) clinics in the greater Cape Town region. ART initiation and ongoing ART management for those down-referred …
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Towards an interactive management approach to performance improvement in bureaucratic organization
… Africa's biggest local governments (the City of Tygerberg). The research result shows that the most significant problem within the City of Tygerberg is in the information-processing subsystem- associator. Besides, the 'mental pathology' locates on the 'sink' stage of the structured problem model.
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Risk factors for prolonged ventilation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presenting with acute respiratory failure
… with COPD admitted to the Respiratory ICU at Tygerberg academic hospital from the 01st January 2004 until 31st December 2007 requiring intubation and invasive mechanical ventilation for acute hypercapnic respiratory failure were included in the study.
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The zoo as paradoxical discourse : a social space of paradoxical construction and deconstruction of knowledge about animals
… conducted in three different zoos in Cape Town; Tygerberg Zoo Park was the main area of fieldwork. Additional fieldwork took place in the Aquarium and the Bee Farm for comparison. Fieldwork took place during six weeks in 2001 and included conservations as well as participant observation, in the …
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Working in palliative care: exploring community nurses' experiences of their work
… settings, St Luke’s Combined Hospices and Tygerberg Hospice, which are both non-profit organisations providing Palliative Care in the community. Permission was gained to conduct research by the St Luke’s Combined Hospices Research Ethics Committee, and the Palliative Care Manager at …
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Investigation of refraction effects for small GPS networks
… single consistent set of 3-D coordinates for the Tygerberg Test Network (TTN). The results of two GPS processing packages are compared by means of a conformal transformation. It is concluded that single frequency measurements produce better results than the ionospheric free observable on short …
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Studies in cardiomyopathy: looking beyond the familiar
… seen in a specialist cardiogenetic clinic at Tygerberg Hospital, who underwent cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging at Groote Schuur Hospital.
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Hospital admission patterns of childhood respiratory illness in Cape Town and their association with air pollution and meteorological factors
… Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Tygerberg Hospital were used to determine patterns with respect to diagnosis, gender, race, age and date of admission. During the three year study period, respiratory admissions at both hospitals accounted for 15 078 (47.3%) out of a total of 31 887 …
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