Publications by authors named "B Rosie"
Article Synopsis
- Environmental cleaning is crucial for preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and influences patient satisfaction in hospitals.
- Patients expect clean hospital rooms and expressed feelings of being "in the way" during cleaning, highlighting a need for balance between thoroughness and respect for patient comfort.
- Recommendations include enhancing communication about cleaning procedures to align them with patient preferences, potentially fostering positive relationships between patients and cleaning staff, especially in a veterans' healthcare setting.
Aims: To describe the epidemiology of intussusception in New Zealand children aged 0-36 months prior to the introduction of routine rotavirus vaccination.
Methods: ICD-10 coding data from the New Zealand National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) was used to identify all cases of intussusception in children aged 0-36 months between January 1998 and December 2013. These data were linked with birth data from the New Zealand census.
Aims: There is limited information on the effects of smoking behaviour on mortality in patients with end-stage renal failure (ESRF). This study aimed to assess the interaction of smoking on death rate in patients with renal failure on dialysis.
Methods: All patients (n=1293) commencing peritoneal dialysis between 1985 and 1995 for renal failure in New Zealand were prospectively followed 6 monthly until 1997 and data entered on the National database.