OBJECTIVE assessment through qualitative approach of vaccine storage in Primary Healthcare Centers. METHOD assessment study of qualitative approach in which 30 interviews were conducted with nurses, nursing technicians or assistants and technical reference in immunization, in 12 vaccine rooms that had 100% of the structural criteria evaluated. Recorded testimonials of the subjects were organi...

Despite the advancement in the Malaysian rural healthcare centers operations, the healthcare delivery is currently facing some challenges caused by the techniques in collecting the data for analyzing their performances at the end of the day. It is posited that healthcare centers can take advantages of these data and explore analytics as a competitive tool provided by Business Intelligence (BI)....

background: concept of e-readiness is used in many areas such as e-business, e-commerce, e-government, and e-banking. in terms of healthcare, e-readiness is a rather new concept, and is propounded under the title of e-healthcare. e-health readiness refers to the readiness of communities and healthcare institutions for the expected changes brought by programs related to information and communica...

BACKGROUND The two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method, which is one of the most widely used methods for measuring healthcare spatial accessibility, defines the catchment area of each facility as the area within a certain distance from the facility. However, in some cases, the service utilization behavior is constrained by administrative boundaries, therefore the definition of catchment...

Most analyses of racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare focus on individuals rather than organizations. Healthcare organizations may be one mechanism that produces disparities if the representation of minorities within organizations' patient populations is associated with differential patterns of service delivery. This research considers whether the racial and ethnic composition of addicti...

nowadays, previously performance-oriented architecture of healthcare centers has been switched to creating a healing environment; and one of the most important pillars to create such an environment is omitting sound pollutions. today's hospital have chaotic situation regarding noise pollution not only in our country, but also in all over the world. the present study aims to provide a compl...

Reports of bloodstream infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among chronic hemodialysis patients to 2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveillance systems (National Healthcare Safety Network Dialysis Event and Emerging Infections Program) were compared to evaluate completeness of reporting. Many methicillin-resistant S. aureus bloodstream infections identif...

1801. Organism profile and antimicrobial resistance patterns of healthcareassociated bloodstream infections in oncology settings Isaac See, MD; Alison Freifeld, MD; Shelley S. Magill, MD, PhD; Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE; Centers for Disease Control and Prev...

BACKGROUND The objective was to determine the average cost per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) gained of treating trauma victims at a tertiary trauma hospital and to determine the cost-effectiveness of trauma care at this center. The setting was a tertiary trauma center in the province of Ontario, Canada. The study population consisted of consecutive trauma admissions with ISS > 12 from April...