SURGICAL CANCELLATION RATE: QUALITY INDICATOR AT A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Quality of Surgical Case Notes at Dow University Hospital according to modified ANKLe score

OBJECTIVE To find out quality of surgical case notes according to modified Adjusted Note keeping and Legibility (ANKLe) score in Dow University Hospital. METHODS For this audit, medical records of all the patients admitted in Dow University Hospital surgery department were reviewed from February 2012 to April 2012. The modified ANKLe score (total 24) is formed by the combination of, the conte...

A Fuzzy FMEA Approach to Prioritizing Surgical Cancellation Factors

Background and Objectives: Surgical cancelation is a significant source of time and resource waste, patient safety risk, and stress for patients and their families. In this study, a risk management-based approach is developed to prioritize factors contributing to surgical cancellation. Methods: Factors leading to surgical cancellation were comprehensively classified based on literature review...

Perception of the nursing team of a Surgical Center regarding Hospital Accreditation at a University Hospital.

Objective To analyze the perception of nursing teams at a surgical center regarding the process of hospital accreditation, in the evaluative aspects of structure, process, and result. Method The study takes a quantitative and exploratory-descriptive approach, carried out at a university hospital. Result The population consisted of 69 nursing professionals, and the data collection was performed ...

Surgical intensive care: a university hospital experience.

Increased donor rate at Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital.

The rate of organ donation reflects the level of the respective society and country development. In Croatia, attempts have been made to increase this rate. As a consequence, the number of potential donors with confirmed brain death was observed to have steadily increased during the 2004-2008 period. Data on all potential donors where the confirmation procedure for brain death was completed were...