Evaluating hazardous waste generation in for-profit outpatient haemodialysis centres.

Background: "Green" haemodialysis management to reduce the environmental impact of haemodialysis is growing.

Objectives: Dealing with hazardous waste production could heighten healthcare professionals' awareness of this problem, and improve their healthcare involvement in environmental sustainability and environmental-friendliness.

Design And Measurements: A list of for-profit outpatient haemodialysis centres in the Valencian Community (E Spain) was compiled.

Predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors associated with smoking relapse among hospital workers.

Objectives: A better identification of the determinants of smoking relapse among hospital workers would be helpful in development of more effective interventions to decrease the frequency of relapses in this group. The aim of this study was to determine the predisposing enabling, and reinforcing factors associated with smoking relapse among workers at a university hospital.

Methods: This was a case-control study based on a self-administered and structured questionnaire.

[Adverse events and associated factors in patients who died in a university hospital].

Objective: This study aims to associate adverse events related to health care with another indicator of quality of care such as hospital mortality, and determining the proportion of adverse events (AEs) and associated factors in deceased patients.

Methods: First a descriptive study of hospital-based mortality was performed, followed by a case-control study in deceased patients. We studied the presence of AEs, the probability which they could be predicted and prevented, and their association with several factors.

Prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in pregnant Latin American women and congenital transmission rate in a non-endemic area: the experience of the Valencian Health Programme (Spain).

This study describes the results of the health programme implemented in the Valencian Community (Spain) to achieve an early diagnosis of Chagas disease in pregnant Latin American women and their newborns. During 2009 and 2010, 1975 women living in the health districts of three university hospitals were enrolled via midwives or at the time of delivery. Diagnosis of disease was performed using two serological tests with different antigens.