OBJECTIVE This prospective study aims to identify and compare the incidence of bacterial contamination of hospital charts and the distribution of species responsible for chart contamination in different units of a tertiary hospital. METHODS All beds in medical, surgical, pediatric, and obstetric-gynecologic general wards (556) and those in corresponding special units (125) including medical, ...

Planning and scheduling critical resources in hospitals is significant for better service profit generation. The current research investigates an integrated planning problem at different levels of operating rooms, intensive care units, wards. theory constraints applied to make plans schedules rooms based on the capacity room itself downstream A mixed integer linear programming model developed c...

The impact of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) on indoor air quality and on human health is widely recognized. However, VOC contamination in hospital indoor air is rarely studied and chemical compounds that singularly do not show high toxicity are not submitted to any regulation. This study aimed to compare VOC contamination in two different anatomical pathology wards in the same hospital. Hyd...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Studies carried out in different countries have shown that source of patient admission in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) is associated to death. Patients admitted from wards show a greater ICU mortality. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between admission source and outcome in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). MATERIALS AND METHODS We studi...

BACKGROUND Considerable investments are being made in commercial electronic prescribing systems (e-prescribing) in many countries. Few studies have measured or evaluated their effectiveness at reducing prescribing error rates, and interactions between system design and errors are not well understood, despite increasing concerns regarding new errors associated with system use. This study evaluat...

Dressing. ? In moat cases strict antiseptic precautions were taken. In the surgical wards of this hospital, Listerism was seldom practised before. Having observed during my studentdays the most excellent results of antiseptic surgery in the first Surgeon's wards of the Medical College Hospital and subsequently iu the wards of the Edinburgh Royal infirmary, the very scene of Listerian labour and...