Ledbetter's account of the backroom negotiations that attended the Standard's demise drags in places, but he is adept at capturing both the late-nineties atmosphere of irrational exuberance and the bitter, hung-over feeling that followed.
Residents who attended the ACTIVE conference series scored higher on the immediate knowledge questions when compared to residents who attended the standard lecture series, with an absolute improvement in score of 11% (Table 3).
Physicians were asked to report age, gender, department, current position, year of graduation from medical school, and whether they had attended the standard patient-communication training course offered by the Danish Medical Association DMAA).
It included two parts; the first part aimed to collect the socio-demographic information and professional characteristics of doctors such as qualification, years of practice, number of patients treated daily, number of TB patients treated/followed in the last one year and whether they have attended the standard NTP training on management of TB.
Replacement of toxic reagents, waste minimization and treatment were exploited to attend the standards of clean chemistry.
According to the Demographic Health Survey, 43% of Ghanaian women give birth alone or with a non-skilled attendant [ 14] although 62.8% of women surveyed had attended the minimum standard of four antenatal visits [ 15].
The 96-h i.v. infusion was chosen to allow ambulatory administration of chemotherapy rather than attending for the standard D1 5 30-min infusions of chemotherapy.
Participants attending the health check underwent standard anthropometric measurements and a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test.
Control measures included: contact isolation in individual rooms, specialized personnel attending the isolated patients, enhanced standard precautions, additional cleaning of patient rooms and enhanced cleaning and disinfection of medical materials.
There was a clearly expressed desire in all countries attending the meeting to use standards to improve overall quality of care not just to sort hospitals into those that "pass" an accreditation visit and those that don't.
