As administrators evaluate potential approaches to improve cost, quality, and throughput efficiencies in the emergency department (ED), "front-end" operations become an important area of focus. Interventions such as immediate bedding, bedside registration, advanced triage (triage-based care) protocols, physician/practitioner at triage, dedicated "fast track" service line, tracking systems and w...

background quality of health services is one of the most important factors for delivery of these services. regarding the importance and vital role of quality in the health sector, a concept known as “clinical governance” (cg) has been introduced into the health area which aims to enhance quality of health services. thus, this study aimed to assess private and public hospitals’ readiness to impl...

the united states president’s emergency plan for aids relief (pepfar) emphasizes health systems strengthening as a cornerstone of programmatic success. health systems strengthening, among other things, includes effective capacity building for clinical care, administrative management and public health practice. avante zambéziais a district-level in-service training program for administrative sta...

background: healthcare organizations is being increasingly used. the aim of this study was to clarify psc statusin iranian hospitals using a meta-analysis method.nowadays, for quality improvement, measuring patient safety culture (psc) inmethodssid and iranmedex using the search terms including patient safety, patient safety culture, patientsafety climate and combined with hospital (such as “ho...

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...