Resources are available to assist facilities in assessing the quality of outsourced sterile compounding services (e.g., http://www.ashpfoundation.org/MainMenuCategories/PracticeTools/SterileProductsTool/SterileProductsAssessmentTool.aspx).aspx
The aims of our study were to obtain a preliminary estimate of the prevalence of abdominal TB in symptomatic HIV-infected patients in the principal in-patient facility in Zambia, assess the level of immunodeficiency in those with abdominal TB, and identify useful diagnostic tools (particularly ultrasound) for a resource poor setting.
When failures occur, medical facilities often face considerable uncertainty in assessing the actual risks of disease transmission associated with a particular deviation from standard recommendations.
In our studies we used a controlled exposure facility to assess, in a robust and well-validated fashion (Langrish et al. 2010a), the contribution to potential arrhythmogenesis of individual air pollutants diesel exhaust, wood smoke, ozone, and nitrogen dioxide as well as ambient air pollution in Beijing, China (Langrish et al. 2014).
Interviews with health service providers were conducted face-to-face in the facility to assess health service provider education, experience, training, supervision, and incentives [ 13].
As part of a long-term research strategy, we conducted an educational intervention in preschool facilities to assess changes in preschoolers' knowledge, attitudes, and habits toward healthy eating and living an active lifestyle.
In addition detecting invasive K. kingae disease in patients, searching for asymptomatic but colonized children is crucial in the investigation of an outbreak in a daycare facility to assess the full extent of the contagion, identify attendees at risk for clinical disease, and evaluate the effects of prophylactic antibacterial drugs.
For measures of antimalarial and antibiotic prescribing, we applied an external design effect of 3.8, as recommended by Rowe 2002 for health facility surveys assessing antimalarial treatment in Benin.
We analyzed changes in environmental, additive genetic, and non-additive genetic contributions in growth and saltwater survival across multiple life stages of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in an aquaculture facility to assess the importance of each factor throughout life.
Researchers then visited the participant (ideally at 3 5 days after birth) either at home or in the health facility to assess the health of the mother and baby.
Data for each facility were collected from the facility in-charge and the most knowledgeable person(s) available for each service assessed in the facility audit.
