[Current trends in emergency triage in Taiwan: the five-level triage system].

An ideal triage system should accurately and quickly sort patients according to seriousness of diseases, and ensure that patients in emergency departments (EDs) get adequate management in an appropriate medical environment. Recently, EDs throughout the world have been confronting overcrowding, and are developing a five-level triage system to solve the problems that this presents. Taiwan EDs have used the Taiwan triage system (TTS) since 1999 until recently.

[Family satisfaction with systematic nursing instructions in a pediatric emergency department].

This study aimed to evaluate satisfaction with systematic nursing instructions among family members of pediatric emergency patients and to determine the degree to which family members complied with instructions provided. All subjects recruited were from a single medical center. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data.

The construction, characterization and transfection of liposome- polycation-CDKN1B plasmid complexes.

Objective: To develop an efficient non-viral gene delivery system in order to transfer CDKN1B gene efficiently into lung and liver carcinoma cells.

Methods: A recombinant plasmid composed of CDKN1B sequence and EYFP as reporter gene was constructed and identified. The recombinant DNA was then formulated the lipids-polycation-DNA complexes(LPDs) with protamine sulfate.