The overall health of academic radiology suffers from insufficient funds and manpower. Although the largest academic programs in the country may have sufficient resources to maintain robust academic environments, one third to half of the academic radiology programs in the United States are struggling to maintain stable academic environments. The impact of an impaired academic radiology enterpri...

OBJECTIVE To determine ophthalmologists' views on the Medicare bundled payment model for specialty physicians in the outpatient setting. DESIGN AND METHODS The New England Ophthalmology Society (NEOS) was emailed an anonymous survey. Views of bundled payments and demographic characteristics were analyzed. RESULTS Of responding members, 72% (115/160) strongly opposed bundled payments; 68% (1...

A survey of patients admitted to a private hospital for detoxification from alcohol found similar levels of physical morbidity and withdrawal complications to a group admitted to a National Health Service alcohol treatment unit. Although private patients tended to be older than National Health Service patients, the two groups were similar on a number of other variables. The implications for tho...

, . In course of time he joined the Bristol Medical School, ?lng most of his clinical work at the Royal Infirmary, and 0 taming the diplomas of M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1891. For a short time he was engaged in private practice, and as Medical Officer to the Bristol Foresters for two years. He acted as assistant medical officer in mental hospitals at ^ster and Maidstone, at which institutions he la...

BACKGROUND Brazil has a highly stratified population with large socioeconomic disparities, as evidenced by marked differentiation in health status and access to health services by the population. In addition, the fact that the universal national healthcare system and a liberalised private care model exist side by side leads to increasingly inequitable health outcomes. AIMS This study aims to ...

introduction: the information recorded in medical sheets can help us facilitate the treatment process, recognize the quality of performance of the medical staff, plan health care programs and make accurate and appropriate decisions. this study intends to compare the quality of recording information in admission and summary sheets of three hospitals in isfahan in the first six months of 1381. ma...

While many studies investigated the higher morbidity and mortality levels of indigenous Australians in the high-density indigenous areas in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia, few examined the situation in New South Wales, where more than 28% of the indigenous population lives. Admissions to acute public and private hospitals in New South Wales for 1989-1995 are used ...

Methods As part of a large community study, subjects older than 2 years reporting at least two symptoms of influenzalike-illness were recruited from 30 outpatient clinics in Hong Kong prospectively from February 2007 to July 2010 around the influenza seasons [1,2]. Each subject provided a pooled pair of nose and throat swabs to be tested by the QuickVue rapid test on site. Overall test positive...

BACKGROUND The laparoscopic approach must be shown to be cost-effective as well as safe and technically effective before being widely adopted. A review of 54 consecutive patients who underwent open and laparoscopic colposuspension is presented and a cost-analysis is performed comparing the two approaches. METHODS This study was a retrospective controlled review of patient records and accounts...

BACKGROUND Nursing managers have to meet expectations of patients despite economic pressures, an increasing burden of disease and nursing shortages. Shifting health care-related tasks to lower categories of staff, including non-nursing support staff, has become one solution to address this dilemma. Patient care workers are a specific group of non-nursing support staff working in South African h...