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The Dangers of Electrosurgical Smoke to Operating Room Personnel: A Review Open
A 2007 study in the United Kingdom showed that three of 98 surgeons surveyed admitted using dedicated smoke extractors; 72% of respondents believed inadequate precautions were in place to protect staff from the potential dangers of electro…
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Compounded medication for patients with rare diseases Open
Pharmaceutical compounding must be performed in the best possible circumstances by certified practitioners (pharmacists) using validated standard operating procedures (standardized formulations) in order to obtain medicinal products of the…
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Evaluation of Two Lyophilized Molecular Assays to Rapidly Detect Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Directly from Clinical Samples in Field Settings Open
Accurate, timely diagnosis is essential for the control, monitoring and eradication of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). Clinical samples from suspect cases are normally tested at reference laboratories. However, transport of samples to these …
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The Art of Writing and Implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Laboratories in Low-Resource Settings: Review of Guidelines and Best Practices Open
The Art of Writing and Implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Laboratories in Low-Resource Settings: Review of Guidelines and Best Practices
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Standardization of Laboratory Methods for the PERCH Study Open
The Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health study was conducted across 7 diverse research sites and relied on standardized clinical and laboratory methods for the accurate and meaningful interpretation of pneumonia etiology data. Bloo…
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Disinfection of reusable elastomeric respirators by health care workers: A feasibility study and development of standard operating procedures Open
Reusable facial protective equipment may be disinfected by health care workers with minimal training using SOPs.
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Standard operating procedures (SOP) in experimental stroke research: SOP for middle cerebral artery occlusion in the mouse Open
Systematic reviews have found quantitative evidence that low study quality may have introduced a bias into preclinical stroke research. Monitoring, auditing, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) are already key elements of quality cont…
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European Stroke Organisation (ESO) standard operating procedure for the preparation and publishing of guidelines Open
The first European Stroke Organization (ESO) standard operating procedure (SOP) published in 2015 aimed at the implementation the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology to provide evidence-ba…
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Hospital care in Departments defined as COVID-free: A proposal for a safe hospitalization protecting healthcare professionals and patients not affected by COVID-19 Open
The COVID-19 pandemic influenced the normal course of clinical practice leading to significant delays in the delivery of healthcare services for patients non affected by COVID-19. In the near future, it will be crucial to identify faciliti…
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Clinical standards for the management of adverse effects during treatment for TB Open
BACKGROUND: Adverse effects (AE) to TB treatment cause morbidity, mortality and treatment interruption. The aim of these clinical standards is to encourage best practise for the diagnosis and management of AE. METHODS: 65/81 invited expert…
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Implementing the WHO integrated tool to assess quality of care for mothers, newborns and children: results and lessons learnt from five districts in Malawi Open
There is a need to develop an expanded framework of standards which is inclusive of all areas of care. In addition, it is important to ensure structure, process and outcomes of health care are reflected.
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PERANCANGAN STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (SOP) PADA CHOCOLAB Open
Chocolab is a food and beverage company which produces homemade chocolate. One of Chocolab's selling methods is consignment sales system through retailers. Sometimes, products are returned by retailers due to product defects caused by eith…
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Dairy farmer advising in relation to the development of standard operating procedures Open
Standard operating procedures (SOP) are increasingly required on farms participating in animal welfare assurance programs, such as the Dairy Farmers of Canada's proAction initiative and the National Dairy FARM Program in the United States.…
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An assessment of the quality indicators of operative and non-operative times in a public university hospital Open
Objective To assess the operative time indicators in a public university hospital. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted using data from operating room database. The sample was obtained from January 2011 to January 2012…
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Practical Guidance to Implementing Quality Management Systems in Public Health Laboratories Performing Next-Generation Sequencing: Personnel, Equipment, and Process Management (Phase 1) Open
Quality standards as part of an effective quality management system (QMS) are the cornerstone for generating high-quality test results. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has the potential to improve both clinical diagnostics and public heal…
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Prospective Investigation of the Operating Room Time-Out Process Open
BACKGROUND: Although the surgical pause or time-out is a required part of most hospitals’ standard operating procedures, little is known about the quality of execution of the time-out in routine clinical practice. An interactive electronic…
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Midwives and Nurses Compliance with Standard Precautions in Palestinian Hospitals Open
Midwives and nurses should use the standard precautions as the basic level of infection control precautions when delivering care to all patients, regardless of their presumed infection status. Therefore midwifes and nurses should have soun…
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Standard operating procedures as a trend in ensuring healthcare safety Open
An analysis of healthcare safety indicators has shown that risks associated with providing healthcare which occur in med-ical organizations lead to additional economic and material losses, lower efficiency of government measures aimed at d…
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Biobanking of different body fluids within the frame of IVF—a standard operating procedure to improve reproductive biology research Open
The SOP ensures a professional way for collection and scientific use of IVF samples by the Kinderwunsch Institut Schenk, Dobl, Austria, and Biobank Graz of the Medical University of Graz, Austria. It can be used as a template for other ins…
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Standard operating procedures for SARS-CoV-2 detection by a clinical diagnostic RT-LAMP assay Open
The ongoing pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 calls for rapid and cost-effective methods to accurately identify infected individuals. The vast majority of patient samples is assessed for viral RNA presence by RT-qPCR. Our biomedical research institut…
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Standard Operating Procedure for Specimen Collection, Packaging and Transport for Diagnosis of SARS-COV-2 Open
Coronavirus disease-19 is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARSCoV-2). Specimen quality, and proper transportation is vital for accurate diagnosis. This standard operating procedure is designed to educate the clin…
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Decision Making Within and Outside Standard Operating Procedures: Paradoxical Use of Operational Discretion in Firefighters Open
Objective To understand how firefighters’ use of rules (i.e., standard operating procedures [SOPs]) and deliberative decision making (i.e., operational discretion [OD]) interacts with acute stress. Background Current operational guidance f…
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Preanalytical Considerations in the Design of Clinical Trials and Epidemiological Studies Open
Clinical trials and epidemiologic and most types of clinical research include the acquisition of biological samples to be analyzed either immediately after collection or in the future for biomarkers related to the study hypotheses. Tested …
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Nurse Compliance in Implementing Post Op Wound Care Standard Operating Procedures Open
One of the causes of the occurrence of nosocomial infections is the implementation of standard operating procedures, whether implemented properly or not by nurses. Analyzing nurses' compliance in implementing standard operating procedures …
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Considerations for Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Applying the ISO 35001:2019 Standard and High-Reliability Organizations Principles Open
Background: Risk assessment is a critical tool for evaluating emerging pathogens such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 because of the limited available information about pathogens and the diseases they cause. Industries a…
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Implementation of Good Clinical Laboratory Practice in an Immunology Basic Research Laboratory Open
The methodology, suggestions, and comments that arose from our experience in implementing GCLP guidelines can be used by other laboratories to develop a quality system using GCLP guidelines to support medical research conducted to ensure t…
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Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Open
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Management of pregnant laboring women during COVID-19 pandemic Open
Since its first outbreak in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global public health threat. In the midst of this rapidly evolving pandemic condition, the unique needs of pregnant women should be…
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User guide to the standard operating procedure for G+ tools (G+SOP) Open
The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the G+ Tools is designed for breeding teams with an
\ninterest in improving their gender-responsiveness. The SOP is a guide to using the G+ Tools as an input
\nto team decisions about the import…
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Emergency intubation of children outside of the operating room Open
Intubation of children outside of the operating room is performed infrequently and is often associated with life‐threatening adverse events. This review aims to clarify the contributors to adverse events encountered during intubations outs…