BACKGROUND Hospital governance is broadening its orientation from cost and production controls towards 'improving performance on clinical outcomes'. Given this new focus one might assume that doctors are drawn into hospital management across OECD countries. Hospital performance in terms of patient health, quality of care and efficiency outcomes is supposed to benefit from their involvement. How...

Hospital pharmacy practice has undergone many changes over the past 3 decades. New technologies, such as automated repackaging, robotic unit-dose cart-fill systems, and automated dispensing cabinets, have improved the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of drug distribution systems. In addition, new pharmacy practice models have been introduced in which pharmacists accept responsibility and ...

Primarily, how well organization performs and handles the tough challenges does depend on how well the health care manager is educated and trained. The managers are expected to integrate modern business management practices with clinical and healthcare knowledge in hospital and health care institutions. All managers, irrespective of what they manage, perform four generic tasks (planning, organi...

background: outsourcing in healthcare is a cost-effective strategy that reduces costs and increases service quality. managers must attempt to outsource healthcare services using scientific methods. objective: this study is a strategic analysis of the outsourcing of health services in one specialty and subspecialty hospital in tehran. methods: this mixed method study (quantitative-qualitative) w...

This article reports on a postal survey of 78 long-term care managers in one region of New Zealand, of whom 45 (58%) responded. Most long-term care managers (73.2%) were middle-aged females holding nursing but not management qualifications. Most long-term care facilities (69%) tended to be stand-alone facilities providing a single type of care (rest home or continuing care hospital). The most p...

The Nutrition Care Process (NCP), developed by the American Dietetic Association, is a significant issue to dietetic professionals in many countries and there are rising needs for NCP implementation in Korea. We surveyed clinical nutrition managers of Korean general hospitals regarding the perception of NCP, the status of NCP implementation, and the opinions on NCP. The questionnaire was collec...

Objective: To learn the perceptions of hospital quality managers about the benefits and difficulties that arise from accreditation. Methods: A descriptive, qualitative and exploratory study was developed with five quality managers from hospitals of each of the three levels of national accreditation and one which lost its accreditation. Taped interviews were carried out with the participants, wh...

unways" are not just for airports. At Long Beach Memorial Medical Center (LBMMC) and its subsidiary. Miller Children's Hospital, both of which occupy the same campus in Long Beach, CA, keeping the "runways" clear for patient admissions has increased volumes by more than 160 patients per day and net income by 700 percent. Senior managers, who arc these hospitals' chief "traffic controllers," dev...

Since 2007, all Romanian hospital discharges are validated based on the clinical data sent by hospitals. Consequently, the Ministry of Health developed a set of indicators, in order to evaluate the hospital management performance. This evaluation was first done in 2008, based on the new legal regulations that introduced Hospital Management Contracts between hospital managers and Ministry of Hea...