Psychiatry services are being initiated and delivered in the general hospitals. Though this is being achieved at a slow pace, nevertheless, the trend is being set. Community programmes lor the delivery of psychiatric services are also being planned. The delivery of mental health care services at the primary health centres and the peripheral areas would perhaps be strengthened it the role of Gen...

OBJECTIVES To assess the use of evidence-based investigations and treatments in patients with acute stroke in selected Australian hospitals and to compare management and outcomes between stroke and other types of hospital specialty unit. DESIGN Retrospective, multicentre audit of hospital case files. SETTING Eight metropolitan tertiary-care hospitals from five Australian States. SUBJECTS ...

This work examines the impact of discharge decisions under uncertainty in a capacity-constrained high risk setting: the intensive care unit (ICU). New arrivals to an ICU are typically very high priority patients and, should the ICU be full upon their arrival, discharging a patient currently residing in the ICU may be required to accommodate a newly admitted patient. Patients so discharged risk ...

Nurse managers regularly make decisions that include assigning nurses to inpatient units and adjusting staffing when anticipated demand exceeds scheduled nurse shifts. These types of decisions are affected by absenteeism. We use data from multiple inpatient units of two hospitals to study which factors, including unit culture, short-term workload, and shift type explain nurse absenteeism. The a...

BACKGROUND Length of stay is the main determinant of the cost of hospitalization, which is why strategies must be implemented to reduce conventional hospital stays while maintaining quality levels. Short Stay Units (SSU) were created with the aim of reducing hospital stays in a certain group of patients and pathologies. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the literature on the evidence of decr...

CONTEXT Prior research has found that safety organizing behaviors of registered nurses (RNs) positively impact patient safety. However, little research exists on how engaging in safety organizing affects caregivers. OBJECTIVES While we know that organizational processes can have divergent effects on organizational and employee outcomes, little research exists on the effects of pursuing highly...

Objectives: The purpose of this project was to create a measure of safety climate for hospital inpatient care units and to determine the psychometric properties of the measure. Methods: The first version of the measure was derived from published literature. Two rounds of expert review refined that measure. The measure was then pilot tested with 213 RN staff nurses working on 19 units in two hos...