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Gram-negative wound infection is a significant determinant of morbidity and mortality in burn patients, yet literature in this field is particularly scarce. This reference text applies a rigrous, evidence-based approach to an in-depth analysis of this specialist area. The major causative organisms, their incidences across burn centres world wide, and predictive risk factors are extensively investigated, providing best-evidence recommendations. A must-read for clinicians looking to remain abreast of latest evidence based research, researchers in antimicrobial development as well as...

Pharmacists professional roles have evolved throughout the years, with these changes resulting in a focus on collaborative pharmacist-patient professional relationships. The study was envisaged to determine pharmacists perception regarding community pharmacy services and to determine the perceptions of the general public with regard to the community pharmacist and the current pharmacy service. Community pharmacist and general public questionnaires were updated and psychometrically evaluated through reliability and validity testing. The questionnaires were distributed amongst pharmacists and...

This study was envisaged to review and update a quality care system, namely Validation Instruments for Community Pharmacy, that was developed by this research group in 1997 and to investigate the feasibility of elaborating the tools electronically. Through research, it became evident that, since the original study, the scope of community pharmacy has been substantially extended. Psychometric testing established the validity and reliability of the updated tools while the feasibility study unearthed the willingness and interest of implementing the Validation Instruments electronically. This...

These proceedings contain the refereed papers and posters presented at the S- ond International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2009), held at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, September 10-11, 2009. This biennial international conference provides an opportunity for the p- sentation of the latest work describing theoretical advances in the ?eld of inf- mation retrieval (IR). The ?rst ICTIR was held in Budapest in October 2007, organizedby Keith van Rijsbergen, Sa ndor Dominich, S andor Daran yi, and F- enc Kiss. ICTIR was brought about by the growing interest in...