Implementation of Business Excellence Models in Healthcare for Quality Assessment: A Systematic Review.

The assessment of healthcare facility quality using business excellence models provides valuable information about performance gaps, which can be used to improve performance. Within the excellence framework, the "result" domain presents more challenges in terms of improvement over time. Using European and American business excellence-based models (EFQM and Balridge, respectively), this review aims to highlight the impact of quality assessment on the improvement of healthcare performance results.

Prenatal prediction of respiratory distress syndrome by multimodality approach using 3D lung ultrasound, lung-to-liver intensity ratio tissue histogram and pulmonary artery Doppler assessment of fetal lung maturity.

Objective: Studying the correlation of different lung parameters, using three-dimensional ultrasound (3D US) with fetal lung maturity (FLM) to predict the development of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS).

Methods: Three-dimensional ultrasound was done to record the fetal lung volume (FLV), fetal lung-to-liver intensity ratio (FLLIR) and the main pulmonary artery (MPA) blood flow parameters; pulsatility index (PI), resistive index (RI) and acceleration time-to-ejection time ratio (At/Et), to 218 women between 32 and 40 weeks gestational age within 24 h from labor.

Results: Of 218 fetuses examined, final analysis was done for 143 fetuses.

Testing of Defects per Million Medication Orders as a SMART Indicator for Monitoring Medication Safety in Admission and Discharge Orders.

Introduction: The study investigated the use of defects per million medication orders (DPMMO) as a SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely) indicator for monitoring medication safety in admission and discharge orders. The study aimed to develop and test a new indicator as an investigator of medication safety.

Methods: The study was conducted in 2018 at King Saud Medical City in Riyadh City in Saudi Arabia.

Chemical Diversity in Species Belonging to Soft Coral Genus and Its Impact on Biological Activity: A Review.

One of the most widely distributed soft coral species, found especially in shallow waters of the Indo-Pacific region, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and also the Arctic, is genus . The total number of species belonging to it was estimated to be 40. species are considered to be a reservoir of bioactive natural metabolites.

Qualitative interviews with non-national tuberculosis patients in Cairo, Egypt: understanding the financial and social cost of treatment adherence.

Limited data are available about the challenges of non-national TB patients undergoing long-term treatment courses in an urban setting. This study aimed to understand the financial and social cost of adherence of non-national TB patients in Cairo, Egypt as a means to inform the development of context-specific interventions to support treatment adherence. In 2011, 22 in-depth interviews were conducted with TB patients from Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti to obtain qualitative data.

Synthesis of some novel thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidines as potential cytotoxic small molecules against breast cancer.

A variety of novel thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidines with different decorating functional groups were synthesized as a part of a study aiming to enrich the arsenal of chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer. The design of synthetic molecules based on DNA-interchelating properties by hydrogen bond formation. The reported compounds herein are: 4-aminothienopyrimidine derivatives 4a, b and their 4-substituted phenylamino analogues 8a, b; 4-thienopyrimidin-4-ones 5a, b; N-alkyl thienopyrimidin-4-ones 6a-g; 4-chlorothienopyrimidines 7a, b and thienopyrimidoquinazolinones 9a, b which are the structural mimics of 8a, b.

Pyrimidinethione nucleosides and their deaza analogues.

The methods of preparation, structure, chemical properties and synthetic potentiality of pyrimidinethione nucleosides and their deaza analogues are reported.