Understanding of Medical Instruments for Hospital Planning

Medical Aspects of Hospital Planning

"I AM living in an ideal world of lifts, gas, baths, and double and single wards," wrote Miss Florence Nightingale (Woodham-Smith, 1949) just over one hundred years ago. She was then 33 years of age and was to live to 90 years, and she had already made her impact on hospital design and had done battle with architects and engineers. Her influence is still to be seen in our hospital buildings tod...

Antique medical instruments

Choosing appropriate theories for understanding hospital reporting of adverse drug events, a theoretical domains framework approach

Adverse drug events (ADEs) may cause serious injuries including death. Spontaneous reporting of ADEs plays a great role in detection and prevention of them, however, underreporting always exists. Although several interventions have been utilized to solve this problem, they are mainly based on experience and the rationale for choosing them has no theoretical base. The vast variety of behavioral ...

Choosing appropriate theories for understanding hospital reporting of adverse drug events, a theoretical domains framework approach

Adverse drug events (ADEs) may cause serious injuries including death. Spontaneous reporting of ADEs plays a great role in detection and prevention of them, however, underreporting always exists. Although several interventions have been utilized to solve this problem, they are mainly based on experience and the rationale for choosing them has no theoretical base. The vast variety of behavioral ...

National Planning Models and Instruments

This paper focuses on the analysis and planning of multimodal, multiproduct transportation systems at the international, national, and regional levels, where the movements of several commodities through the transportation networks and services of several carriers are considered simultaneously. The main questions relate to the evolution of a given transportation system and its response to variou...