Three clinical specialties contributed to the study; five Surgery, four Pediatrics, and three Obstetrics & Gynecology (Ob&Gyn) wards.
Within the eight hospitals, 23 units participated (two to five units per hospital): six internal medicine units, five intensive care units, three surgical units, three emergency departments, two pediatrics units, two neurology units and one psychiatry unit.
Two pediatrics departments (known hereafter as offices, as they act as offices within the health centers) from health centers with a primarily Medicaid population in the greater Boston area were recruited to take part in the study.
Successively, a cross-sectional face-to-face survey was carried out in three Departments: Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Gynecology/Obstetrics (OBGYN).
The children requiring further care transfer to one of the five main Pediatrics wards.
Either way, head and neck cancer is much more extensively dealt with in the Souhami text than in the other two, and pediatrics less in the DeVita text.
We searched MEDLINE for RCTs that enrolled at least 100 subjects and were published between 1990 and 2009 in five critical care journals (AJRCCM, CCM, ICM, Chest, Shock), two pediatric journals (Pediatric CCM and J Pediatrics), and five general medical journals (NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, BMJ, Ann Intern Med).
To make a cross-specialty comparison of dosing variability, we chose only three major specialties: pediatrics, family medicine and otolaryngology.
In the phase 1 of the survey, data on attitudes about 2009 H1N1 and seasonal influenza, vaccination uptake, and determinants of vaccination were collected through a questionnaire in three selected Departments (Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and OBGYN).
Specifically, immunization rate was 50.8%% in Infectious Diseases Department, 40%% in Department of Pediatrics and 6.6 % in OBGYN (p < 0.0001).> -wrap-foot> HCW = health care workers The phase 1 survey in the three selected Departments (Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, OBGYN) was completed by 300/409 (73 %) HCWs (66 males; mean age 44.3 ± 12.6 years).
