During the month of October 61 patients were under treatment in the "in-door" department of this hospital. Twentytwo of these were in hospital at the beginning, 39 admitted and 35 discharged during the month, leaving 26 with which to commence the work of November. Diseases of the lens and capsule, of the conjunctiva and of the iris, in the order mentioned, furnished the greater number of cases....

We aimed to assess the role of spiritual belief in clinical outcome of patients nine months after hospital admission. Two hundred and fifty patients admitted to a London teaching hospital were recruited and followed up for nine months. Outcome measures were clinical status as recorded in the outpatient records and patients' self reported health status and beliefs. A hundred and ninety-seven (79...

OBJECTIVES To determine the rate of inappropriate pediatric admissions using the Pediatric Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (PAEP) and to examine variables associated with inappropriateness of admissions. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A prospective study was conducted in the Department of Pediatrics, Farwania General Hospital, Kuwait, to examine successive admissions for appropriateness of admissio...

We report an empirical analysis of the responses of the supply and demand for secondary care to waiting list size and waiting times. Whereas previous empirical analyses have used data aggregated to area level, our analysis focuses on the supply responses of a single hospital and the demand responses of the GP practices it serves, and distinguishes between first outpatient visits, inpatient admi...

BACKGROUND Assessing the satisfaction of patients about the health care they have received is relatively common nowadays. In France, the satisfaction questionnaire, I-Satis, is deployed in each institution admitting inpatients. Internet self-completion and telephone interview are the two modes of administration for collecting inpatient satisfaction that have never been compared in a multicenter...

The morbidity pattern, based on hospital admissions for a complete year's cohort of all children born in Sheffield 1975-6, was studied. In many children the diagnosis given on admission had changed by the time they were discharged from hospital. About one-quarter of children under age 6 months were admitted for social reasons. Despite a decreasing birth rate the admission rate had increased, wi...

BACKGROUND Ineffective communication of hospital discharge instructions may have important implications for future health, function, and quality of life. OBJECTIVE To describe patient recall of predischarge communication of discharge instructions by hospital staff, and to demonstrate the feasibility a posthospitalization survey in this urban, public hospital population. METHODS Cross-sectio...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact on health care and clinical management of 24-hour coverage by an on-site pulmonologist in a respiratory medicine department. METHODS In February 2004, a new respiratory medicine 24-hour duty service was started in our hospital. The activity of the on-duty pulmonologist during the following 12 months was systematically and prospectively recorded. The results we...

BACKGROUND We assessed the 30-day risk of readmission and mortality among patients receiving an International Classification of Diseases 10th edition diagnosis of medical observation and evaluation (Z03*) following admission to an acute medical admission unit (AMAU), stratified on any further specification of diagnosis during hospital stay. METHODS We used Central Denmark's (Midt)-Electronic ...