Editorial Commentary: What Happens in Hospitals Should Stay in Hospitals

Confidentiality breaches in clinical practice: what happens in hospitals?

BACKGROUND Respect for confidentiality is important to safeguard the well-being of patients and ensure the confidence of society in the doctor-patient relationship. The aim of our study is to examine real situations in which there has been a breach of confidentiality, by means of direct observation in clinical practice. METHODS By means of direct observation, our study examines real situation...

Surgical operations in short-stay hospitals.

Statistics are presented on the number and rate of inpatients with surgery discharged from non-Federal short-stay hospitals and the types of surgical operations performed. The data for this report are based on information abstracted by means of the Hospital Discharge Survey from a national sample of the hospital records for discharged inpatients. Estimates of the number of patients with surgery...

What hospitals should do to prepare for an influenza pandemic.

This article offers recommendations on what hospitals should do to prepare for an influenza pandemic and proposes specific actions and priorities for the purpose of making the discussion of hospital pandemic preparedness issues more operationally useful.

Immigration, charity care and ethics: what should Catholic hospitals do?

Manifestations of Economic Resilience in Hospitals: What do managers say?

Introduction: The area of healthcare requires crucial measures in the area of economic resilience. Regarding the important role of hospital managers in reaching the healthcare goals and realizing instances of the economic resilience in hospitals, the present study was conducted. The aim was to explore the perception of educational and healthcare centers’ managers in Isfahan regarding the concep...