Developments in Hospital Service

Developments in hospital service.

This article is based on sections of a paper entitled 'The Hospital Service-Today and Tomorrow' and on the introductory address when it was presented on May i9, i960, at the annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries. At a very early stage in planning the rebuilding of a hospital or department it is necessary for the staff who work in that hospital-the medical, nursing, technic...

Developments in Hospital Management and Information Systems

Hospital management and business processes in hospitals have changed considerably over the past twenty years, as did the use of hospital information systems. In this paper a ‘stages of growth’ framework is developed and used to describe the relations between types of hospital management and the use of hospital information systems over time. In this paper the framework is applied in a case study...

New developments in hospital fire safety.

Substance use disorders among personality disordered patients admitted for day hospital treatment. Implications for service developments.

Personality disorders (PD) and substance use disorders (SUD) are highly comorbid conditions. However, their treatment services are often separated. The aims of this study was to investigate how extensive this separation was prior to a Norwegian health reform (2004) that promoted integration, and to discuss clinical challenges for an integrated treatment of PD and SUD. All patients with a diagno...

Service Integration: An Overview of Policy Developments

During the 1990s, the rising prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in low-income countries heightened international concern about the lack of means of control. The number of new HIV infections reached five million in 2001, of which 70% occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 8% of adults are now infected.1 The number of new STIs throughout the world totaled 340 mi...