Introduction. It is now known that cancer a major public health problem; on the other hand, it less known, or rather, often underestimated, significant percentage of patients will experience cancer-related emergency. These conditions, depending severity, may require treatment in intensive care emergency departments. In addition, not uncommon for tumor pathology to manifest itself directly, firs...

Morgan O’Connor1,4, Samuel Moulton1, Brenna M Lobb3 and Amie L Peterson2,3* 1Oregon Health and Sciences University School of Medicine, Portland, USA 2Oregon Health and Science University Department of Neurology, Parkinson’s Center of Oregon, Portland, USA 3Veterans Affairs Hospital Department of Neurology, Parkinson’s Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center, Portland, USA 4Department of...

The last few years have witnessed an increasing interest in organizing sterilization. Every new hospital now being planned in the British Isles includes provision for a central sterile supply department and many existing hospitals are also planning such departments. Several of these are likely to be opened within the next year or two. At the present rates of progress there will be few hospitals...

BACKGROUND Hospitals have expressed no knowledge of patients' opinions regarding diversified appointment registration systems, despite efforts to develop novel appointment registration systems that assist patients and increase hospital efficiency. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the use of diversified appointment registration systems and explore the factors influencing patie...

OBJECTIVE To determine the change in adverse event (AE) rates and preventable AE rates over time, identify certain patient risk groups and discuss factors influencing the outcome. DESIGN Longitudinal retrospective patient record review study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A random sample of 21 hospitals in The Netherlands in 2004, and 20 hospitals in 2008. In each hospital, 400 patient admission...

BACKGROUND Simulation-based medical education (SBME) has traditionally been conducted as off-site simulation in simulation centres. Some hospital departments also provide off-site simulation using in-house training room(s) set up for simulation away from the clinical setting, and these activities are called in-house training. In-house training facilities can be part of hospital departments and ...

OBJECTIVE Time spent in hospitals is complex and entails a number of distinct phases that fluctuate depending on many variables. Attempts to understand patients' experiences often involve focusing on their needs using self-evaluation, but this does not clearly highlight the complexity of coping. Questionnaires based on telephone surveys and emails do not facilitate a sufficient assessment of th...

BACKGROUND Successful implementation of continuous quality improvement (CQI) programs in hospitals remains rare in all countries, making it necessary to experiment with implementation methods while considering the cultural factors of resistance to change. OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of an educational intervention on involvement of clinical department staff in the quality process. SETTING...

introduction: electronic medical records has of practically paved the way to centralize information without being worried about physical space. although iran, from technological point of view, is able to compete with developed countries, it has fallen because of medical records technology. in this study, hospital information systems in educational hospitals in tehran province were compared with...