A TEACHING HOSPITAL

Perspectives: a teaching hospital executive.

Sickness absenteeism of Healthcare Workers in a Teaching Hospital

Background: Absence from work for health reasons is known as “sickness absenteeism”. Frequent sick leave is a major concern to any organization, especially hospitals. Objective: This study analyzed the extent and causes of sickness absenteeism in a teaching hospital and evaluated its corelation with demographic and occupational factors. Meth...

Critical Incident Monitoring in a Teaching Hospital

Several factors have been incriminated in the etiologies of critical incidents: shortages in organizing rules, anesthesia technique, patient environment, human factor, team work and communication. This is the third follow up report describing our performance during the last five years (2003-2008). The possible incriminating causes were identified with the objective of avoiding such eventualitie...

Transcription errors observed in a teaching hospital.

Medication errors are among the most common medical errors in the hospitals. Transcription error is a specific type of medication errors and is due to data entry error that is commonly made by the human operators. This study was designed to detect transcription errors in a teaching hospital in Tehran. Direct observational method was used in this study. Error was defined as any deviation in tran...

Partial coherence interferometry in a teaching hospital.

Partial coherence interferometry (PCI) has an 8% to 22% failure rate for a variety of reasons such as mature cataract, inability to fixate secondary to macular degeneration, tremor, keratopathy, nystagmus, and vitreous hemorrhage. The new composite IOLMaster version 5 software has demonstrated a failure rate of 7.4%, primarily because of posterior subcapsular cataracts. Few studies of the effic...