Auditing Neonatal Intensive Care Services

Estimating of Cost Price of Services at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by Activity-based Costing

Introduction: One of the objectives of each system is cost of management and costing to help the organizations to provide high quality goods and services at a competitive environment. The present study was done to computing of cost price of hospital services at the NICU section of according to activity-based costing (ABC) method. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. The costing of hospital...

Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Challenges and Solutions

Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly feasible. The present study aimed to investigate the barriers to palliative care and gain insight into the solutions. Accordingly, the obstacles wer...

Auditing of Monitoring and Respiratory Support Equipment in a Level III-C Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

BACKGROUND Random safety audits (RSAs) are a safety tool but have not been widely used in hospitals. OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency of proper use of equipment safety mechanisms in relation to monitoring and mechanical ventilation by performing RSAs. The study also determined whether factors related to the patient, time period, or characteristics of the area of admission influenced how ...

Handbook of neonatal intensive care

For many years Hutchison's Clinical Methods has been one of the standard recommended textbooks for students of the Queen's University of Belfast Medical School. Sir Robert Hutchison wrote the major part of the original text at the age of twentyfive when he was resident in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, the remainder being supplied by Dr Harry Rainy, Tutor in Clinical Medicine, Edinburgh....

Neonatal intensive care and stress.