Manual of Hospital Paediatrics

[Hospital safety in paediatrics].

Paediatrians are rendering care nowadays in environments that are increasingly complex and constantly changing. This results in multiple opportunities to cause unintended harm. In the last 15 years the world has been increasingly aware that care must be delivered in such a way as to ensure the maximum safety of the child. Since 1999, when the American Institute of Medicine published its report ...

Hospital paediatrics and child health care.

THE reasons for referral and admission of children to the Ulster Hospital Dundonald (UHD) during October 1979 were documented in order to examine the present day practice of hospital paediatrics. In comparison to 25 years ago many admissions today are not for acute emergencies but for less life threatening conditions which nevertheless are extremely frightening to the parents. The knowledge tha...

'The decline and fall of hospital paediatrics' 23 years after.

Paediatrics at King's College Hospital 50 years ago.

King's College Hospital pioneered British paediatrics. It was the first teaching hospital to have a children's department, which was founded when George Frederic Still was invited to join the consultant staff in 1899. Still was himself a pioneer, being the first doctor to practise full time paediatrics as a separate specialty from adult general medicine. In 1906 he became the first professor of...

Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Hospital Information System in Comparison with Manual System in Selected Sections of Namazi Hospital of Shiraz

Background & objectives: Health information technology provides a powerful tool for monitoring the health system's performance. This study aimed to assess the cost-effectiveness of hospital information system in comparison with manual system in selected sections of Namazi hospital in Shiraz. Methods: This descriptive-analytical research was a economic evaluation carried out at Namazi hospital ...