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Background: Medication errors can occur at any of the five steps of the medication use process: prescribing, transcription, dispensing, administration and monitoring. AIM: This study aimed to ascertain the incidence and types of prescribing and administration errors. METHODS: The study was a...

ABSTRACT This study was based on a research conducted at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka. The research was as an assessment of the occupational health and safety situation in hospitals, taking UTH as a case study because of its large size and representativeness, since it has...

This report sought to assess the communication strategies used by the Road Transport and Safety Agency in pedestrian road safety among children below the age of 16. The study employed the Descriptive and Analytical Research Design. Triangulation of research methods was also used. Quantitative...

The purpose of this study was to make an assessment of the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation‘s (ZNBC) provision of space for children‘s participation in national issues. The study used both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection by conducting a content analysis of ZNBC TV...

The Mouse and keyboard is the major means of passing information from user to computer. Direct manipulation of objects via the mouse was a breakthrough in the design of a more natural and intuitive user interfaces for computers. However, in real life we have a rich set of communication methods at...

Background: The pathogenesis of human hypertension is complex and multifactorial. Haptoglobin genes have been cited as risk factors in the development of hypertension. Haptoglobin is an α2-glycoprotein acute phase reactant that binds to free haemoglobin and forms a stoichiometrically stable...

INTRODUCTION: Tuberculosis is recognised as one the leading causes of severe sepsis among HIV positive patients. Most patients with tuberculosis mycobacteraemia have advanced HIV disease with CD4 counts less than 100cells/ul and many do not present with the classical signs of tuberculosis....

The study aimed at examining the attitudes of parents, teachers, and adolescents on the cultural practice of physical punishment; and parents and teachers’ practices in the behaviour management of their children. The research design used two questionnaire scales; the first was employed to measure...

The principal areas and causes of environmental degradation include land degradation through erosion, land, air and water pollution to mention only but a few. Many of these environmental issues emanate from mining activities in one way or the other. Although these environmental concerns are...

This study gives the first morphometric description of the skull of the Gwembe Valley Dwarf (GVD) goat, the applied regional anatomy of the head region as well as the gross morphology of this indigenous goat breed of Zambia. The dearth of information on the cranial morphometry, applied anatomy of...