Improving hospital food

Reducing food wastage , improving food security ?

Improving Hospital Discharge Time

Delays in discharging patients can impact hospital and emergency department (ED) throughput. The discharge process is complex and involves setting specific challenges that limit generalizability of solutions. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of using Six Sigma methods to improve the patient discharge process. This is a quantitative pre and post-intervention study. Three hun...

Simulation-Based Optimization for Improving Hospital Performance

Background and Objectives: Nowadays health services affect a significant part of social, economic and political parts of each country. In this case, hospitals are considered as the important and final stage of health service supply chain. Consequently, quality of health services offered by hospitals has a straight impact on the safety of individuals. Methods: </st...

Improving Heat Transfer in Falling Film Evaporators in Food Industries

Falling film evaporators, due to their high heat transfer coefficients, low energy loss, rather a low holdup time, and the ability to handle high capacities have broad applications in food industries. Thus, this kind of evaporator is being used in the production of temperature sensitive compounds such as syrups. In this study, through modelling of the falling film evaporator with the use of...

Food preferences of hospital patients.

The food that patients receive in hospital forms a link with the familiar world of their own homes. The routine of a hospital is frequently monotonous and the regular appearance of meals can give some relief from the strangeness and tensions of hospital life. So, apart from the nutritional value of the food itself, well-cooked and pleasantly presented food in hospitals could to some degree reli...