Day hospitals.

Geriatric day hospitals--the future?

The efficiency and effectiveness of geriatric day hospitals.

One hundred patients who were referred consecutively to two geriatric day hospitals were followed for 3 months, to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of day hospital management. Transport was highly efficient; only one in every 40 attendances failed because of transport. Selection of patients may have been less efficient, in that only half completed planned treatment. In most cases this...

An instrument assessing patient satisfaction with day care in hospitals

BACKGROUND Patient satisfaction is an important indicator of quality of care in hospitals. Reliable and valid instruments to measure clinical and outpatient satisfaction already exist. Recently hospitals have increasingly provided day care, i.e., admitting patients for one day without an overnight stay. This article describes the adaption of the 'Core questionnaire for the assessment of Patient...

Economic Performance Analysis of Selected Military Hospitals Using Hospital Indicators and Inpatient Bed-Day Cost

Background: Hospitals, the main providers of healthcare services, are costly centers which account for about 80% of the health sector budget and have a huge share of resources. Objective: This study aimed to analyze the economic performance of selected military hospitals in Tehran using hospital indicators and inpatient bed-day costs. Method...

An estimate of the cost of administering intravenous biological agents in Spanish day hospitals

OBJECTIVE To estimate the unit costs of administering intravenous (IV) biological agents in day hospitals (DHs) in the Spanish National Health System. PATIENTS AND METHODS Data were obtained from 188 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, collected from nine DHs, receiving one of the following IV therapies: infliximab (n=48), rituximab (n=38), abatacept (n=41), or tocilizumab (n=61). The fieldwo...