conclusions the frequency of nis in this hospital was lower in comparison with other worldwide studies. however, low incidence of health care-associated infections in our study may be due to under diagnosis and underreporting of such infections by health care staff. results the incidence of nis was low (i.e. < 2%). among 16936 admitted patients in this hospital, 174 patients (79 males and 95 fe...

Sving, E. 2014. Pressure Ulcer Prevention. Performance and Implementation in Hospital Settings. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1042. 73 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9073-7. Background: Pressure ulcers are related to reduced quality of life for patients and high costs for health care. Guidelines for pressure u...

BACKGROUND Hospital purchasing alliances are voluntary consortia of hospitals that aggregate their contractual purchases of supplies from manufacturers. Purchasing groups thus represent pooling alliances rather than trading alliances (e.g., joint ventures). Pooling alliances have been discussed in the health care management literature for years but have never received much empirical investigati...

Managers increasingly understand that employee engagement is a prerequisite for high performance. This article examines how job, work environment, management and organizational factors influence levels of engagement among healthcare employees. Original data come from the Ontario Hospital Association-NRC Picker Employee Experience Survey, involving over 10,000 employees in 16 Ontario hospitals. ...

BACKGROUND During the SARS epidemic, healthcare utilization and medical services decreased significantly. However, the long-term impact of SARS on hospital performance needs to be further discussed. METHODS A municipal hospital in Taipei City was shut down for a month due to SARS and then became the designated SARS and infectious disease hospital for the city. This study collected the outpati...

Preface The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), through a subcontract with Yale New is supporting a committee appointed by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) to address statistical issues identified by the CMS and stakeholders about CMS's approach to mod­ eling hospital quality based on outcomes. In the spring of 2011, with the direct support of YN­ HHSC/...

Background: Since March 2011, hospital rates of hospital-acquired complications (e.g., pressure ulcers) from administrative discharge data (i.e., claims data) are publicly reported online. In 2015, these claimsdata generated complication rates will be used by Medicare to identify the top quartile of poor performing hospitals, to penalize by 1% less pay for all admissions. Concern exists regardi...

Abstract: The psychomotor skills required in dental laboratory technology and dentistry are similar. Dental educators have recognized the problems in selecting from among dental school applicants those with potential psychomotor skills. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of admissions data and measurements of psychological constructs of dental technology students with th...