OBJECTIVE To analyze possible factors associated with prolonged length of stay (LOS) in hip fracture patients in Japan, such as the availability of beds in medical and nursing care facilities at the community level, as well as patient factors, clinical factors and hospital structural characteristics. METHODS The sample for analysis consisted of 8318 hip fracture cases from 199 hospitals throu...

1 t is right that this conference which has demonHELPING OUR PATENTS TOP SMOKING strated so many aspects of the care of chest and heart disease should devote one session to their commonest preventable cause-cigarette smoking. In this matter we cannot leave prevention to the Public Health authorities. They indeed can legislate for clean air in our cities-but this is of limited use if half our ci...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between clinical need and hospital bed supply and utilization in Russia; and, to investigate these associations in areas where traditional Russian tuberculosis health care systems exist and where the directly observed therapy-short course (DOTS) strategy has been implemented. DESIGN Ecological study using 2002 routine data. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Hos...

BACKGROUND Isolation of patients with known or suspected infection strains the resources of hospitals, but little information exists on the actual utilization of isolation beds. METHODS The infection control team of a community hospital keeps a log of hospital days used for isolation. We obtained information from this log for August 2009 through August 2010 on hospital days for isolation due ...

Best Buy Hospital These considerations underlay the Best Buy Hospital, which was introduced on the basis of an acute inpatient provision of two beds per 1,000. It was assumed that patients would stay a minimum of time necessary in hospital and that there would be full supporting services in the community. Almost independent of the community services, the South East Thames Regional Health Author...

Purpose: The recent pattern of the COVID19 have hit hard to entire world engulfing many lives within it. We intended portray association between hospital resources such as Hospital beds, Intensive care unit beds (ICU beds), percentage Gross Domestic Products (GDP) on health with total confirmed cases and deaths among different countries.
 Methods: data these available in 45 countries were ...