Use of clinical laboratory test results in diagnostic deci¬sion making has become an integral part of clinical medicine. More than 60-70% of the most important decisions on admission, discharge, and medication are based on laboratory test results. With this high degree of influence, the...

The maternal mortality ratio of Gujarat was 148/100,000 live births in 2009 (SRS, 2011a) and the infant mortality rate 41/1000 live births in 2011 (SRS, 2011b). The government of Gujarat announced Chiranjeevi Yojana in 2005 to reduce maternal and infant mortality. The scheme was pilot tested in...

The National Rural health Mission created 24X7 Primary Health Centres in order to provide basic emergency and obstetric services to women. The current study looked into how far the above NRHM objective has been met. Our study used the case methodology based on the WHO framework for providing...

The National Rural health Mission created 24X7 Primary Health Centres in order to provide basic emergency and obstetric services to women. The current study looked into how far the above NRHM objective has been met. Our study used the case methodology based on the WHO framework for providing...

Doctors in a teaching hospital perform a variety of teaching, research, seminar, and in-patient care activities in addition to managing outpatient volumes. In this paper, we study the weekly activities of a doctor in a large teaching hospital in southern India, where the doctor's daily work load...

The objective of the present study was to explore how infection rates in study hospitals were affected by an intervention in six intervention hospitals in Gujarat, India. Infection control practices, human resource management, infrastructure, supplies and associated health system factors were...

Staff nurses (nurse-midwives) in India are expected to provide normal birth services in health facilities under the maternal health strategy of the National Rural Health Mission. Under the integrated nursing and midwifery programme in India, every nurse graduate has some midwifery education...

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), was established in 1961 as an autonomous institution by the Government of India in collaboration with the Government of Gujarat and Indian industry. IIMA’s involvement in the health sector started with the establishment of the Public...

Blood is a vital healthcare resource routinely used in a broad range of hospital procedures. It is also a potential vector for harmful, and sometimes fatal, infectious diseases such as HIV, HBV, and HCV. Morbidity and mortality resulting from the transfusion of infected blood have far-reaching...

Chikungunya is a virus spread by the bite of the Aedes mosquito, which recently reemerged as a massive epidemic in the Indian Ocean islands and India. Chikungunya is generally considered self-limiting and has been reported as non-fatal but, since March 2005, one-third of the 770,000 people in...