Improving the performance of clinical departments is not only the significant content of the healthcare system reform in China, but also the essential approach to better satisfying the Chinese growing demand for medical services. Performance management is vital and meaningful to public hospitals in China. Several studies are conducted in hospital internal performance management, but almost none...

background and aims. this survey was conducted to provide statistical data regarding publications in pubmed-indexed journals from tabriz university of medical sciences faculty of dentistry. materials and methods. the database used for this study was pubmed. the search was conducted using key words including the names of the heads of the departments. papers published between january 1, 2005 and ...

Academic departments of psychiatry have three missions—training psychiatrists and other clinicians, advancing scientific knowledge, and providing state-of-the-art patient care—and, together, these serve as the basis for the profession’s overarching goal: to ease the suffering of those afflicted with psychiatric illnesses. To fulfill these missions departments of psychiatry must have effective a...

S. Komssi, H.J. Aronen, M. Kesäniemi, L. Soinne, V.V. Nikouline, M. Ollikainen, R.O. Roine, J. Huttunen, J. Karhu, S. Savolainen, and R.J. Ilmoniemi Department. of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; BioMag Laboratory, Medical Engineering Centre, P.O. Box 442, FIN-00029 HUS, Finland; Departments of Radiology, Neurology Clinical Neurophysiology...

Departments of Genetics, Pathology, Radiation Oncology, Medical Oncology and Cancer Genomics Center Netherlands, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Department of Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Departments of Toxicogenetics and Human Ge...

From the Departments of Neurology (S.D.B.), Radiology (W.A.C.), and Pathology (M.P.F.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; the Department of Neurology, Foothills Hospital, and the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary — both in Calgary, AB, Canada (E.E.S.); and the Departments of Neurology (S.D.B.), Cell Biology (J.F.A.-V.), Radiology (W.A.C.), and Pathology (M.P.F.),...

1 Clinical Fellow, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 2 Associate Professor, Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine, and Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 3 Assistant Professor, Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Health Policy and Mana...

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 provides incentive payments to eligible hospitals and providers that demonstrate the meaningful use of a certified electronic health record (EHR) system . This report describes the adoption of EHRs in hospital emergency departments (EDs) and outpatient departments (OPDs) from 2006 through 2011 using the Nati...

*Departments of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, U.K., †Cardiovascular and Gastrointestinal Discovery Research Department, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Macclesfield, U.K., ‡MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Cambridge, U.K., and §Departments of Exercise, Sport Science and Physiology,...