introduction: hospitals are the best ground for providing health promotion and prevention services besides health care services. this study aimed to determine the impact of establishing standards of health promoting hospitals on hospitals' indicators in one of the public hospitals of iran. materials and methods: this research was a case-control study that included fatemieh (case group) and...

CONTEXT Although hospitals have devoted substantial resources to critical pathways, it is not known whether they routinely evaluate the clinical or economic effects of these pathways. OBJECTIVE To determine how use and evaluation of critical pathways differ between academic and community hospitals. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. PARTICIPANTS Hospitals participating in consortia for improv...

OBJECTIVE To analyze if size, administrative level, legal status, type of unit and educational activity influence the hospital network performance in providing services to the Brazilian Unified Health System. METHODS This cross-sectional study evaluated data from the Hospital Information System and the Cadastro Nacional de Estabelecimentos de Saúde (National Registry of Health Facilities), 2012...

THE MEMBERS OF THIS PANEL have discussed the statistical problems concerned with errors and control in clinical chemistry. I wish to discuss some technics for performing methods which help improve “control” in the laboratory. One of Webster’s definitions of control is “to exercise.restraining or directing influence over; to dominate; regulate.” Listed synonyms are “restrain, rule, govern, guide...

Objective: to identify and classify the most important occupational stressors affecting nursing professionals in the medical units within a hospital. Method: quantitative-qualitative, descriptive and prospective study performed with Delphi technique in the medical units of a general university hospital, with a sample of 30 nursing professionals. Results: the stressors were work overload, fr...

BACKGROUND Patients education is considered a valuable mean to prevent and control healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). This cross-sectional study aims to assess declared practices of healthcare workers (HCWs) regarding the delivery of information about HAIs to patients. METHODS A 14-item multiple-choice questionnaire was designed to assess the attitudes and declared practices of HCWs (ph...

BACKGROUND In healthcare facilities, conventional surveillance techniques using rule-based guidelines may result in under- or over-reporting of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) outbreaks, as these guidelines are generally unvalidated. The objectives of this study were to investigate the utility of the temporal scan statistic for detecting MRSA clusters, validate clusters using...

The importance of health and being medically fit is goal for every human being. Unhealthy situations of human beings are of course very disadvantageous and disastrous to our society. Some public hospitals in Ghana comprising of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), 37 Military Hospital, Ridge Hospital as well as Tema General Hospital are notable hospitals tha...

background: hospital is a place to provide medical services. it is affected by noise pollution sources that can be associated with negative impacts on health and comfort status of the staff members and patients. the aim of this study was to measure noise levels in different wards of hospitals and to determine the irritation caused by noise among the hospital staff members in hamadan, iran. meth...

varieties of Voluntary Hospitals : General Hospitals, Special Hospitals and Cottage Hospitals, so-called. In the past, the medical staff of a Voluntary Hospital has given its services either entirely gratuitously or, in a few instances, each member of the staff has received a small honorarium for out-of-pocket expenses. It has always been understood, however, by the honorary medical staff of a ...