A generic sustainable performance management system for hospital supply chain: design & analysis.

The assessment of the hospital supply chain management represents a key challenge by virtue of the complexity of the healthcare sector. The purpose of this study is to introduce a hybrid approach that helps hospital administrators to clearly identify, evaluate, and narrow the key performance criteria for their supply chain. The methodology attempts to minimise information loss, reduce the fuzziness and subjectivity of the collected data and describes the interdependence among criteria.

[Genital Chlamydia infections. A seroepidemiologic study in Algiers].

The prevalence of anti-Chlamydia antibodies was studied among 329 patients divided into 5 groups, 34 (36%) of the women with a low genital infection have antibodies at a titre greater than 16 versus 12 (17%) of the patients attending the women's clinic for routine pelvic examination. 44 (100%) of 44 prostitutes had antibodies greater than 16 meanwhile only 2 (7%) of 30 women attending an obstetric clinic had antibodies greater than 16. Titres suggesting active chlamydial infection were found in prostitutes (95%), women with low genital infection (17%) and patients attending a cancer screening clinic (11%).