Health care facilities in India are either privately run institutions or publicly funded. Most intensive care unit (ICU) beds in India are in private hospitals. The relatively few ICU beds in public hospitals, which offer free treatment, constitute approximately 10% of the critical care facilities in India. Health insurance and social security are almost nonexistent, and 57.6% of the total heal...

BACKGROUND The current state of general hospital operation room (OR) in Korea and how these ORs are being operated remain unclear. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate and assess the current state of OR management and surgical scheduling in general hospitals of Korea. METHODS A total of 92 anesthesiology training hospitals and 2 equivalent hospitals in Korea were targeted for t...

We selected four hospitals which draw their patients from urban and rural districts in the Stoke-on-Trent area, and which differ in size and character from the Birmingham hospital. Brief particulars of these institutions are as follows: (i) City General Hospital, Newcastle-under-Lyme (formerly the London Road Institution). A general hospital with 915 beds distributed thus: Beds for the acute si...

BACKGROUND Little is known about whether recommended strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) are being implemented in intensive care units (ICU) in the United States. OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to describe the presence of and adherence to CAUTI prevention policies in ICUs, to identify variations in policies based on organizational characteristics, and to ...

Current methods used to calculate the required size of hospitals are underestimating the true capacity needed for operational efficiency. Trends in occupied bed-days (rather than admissions and length of stay) give better estimates of future bed requirements. Hospital occupancy rates depend on volatility in demand, not efficiency. Larger bed pools and hospitals can operate at higher average occ...

We conducted a questionnaire survey in order to grasp the actual conditions under which antineoplastic drugs are mixed for injection in hospitals. Questionnaires were sent to all 155 hospitals with 100 or more beds for general patients in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The response rate was 69.0%. Mixing of antineoplastic drugs was done in 81.3% of the hospitals. The questionnaire was answered by doc...

BACKGROUND Delays to defibrillation are associated with worse survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest, but the degree to which hospitals vary in defibrillation response times and hospital predictors of delays remain unknown. METHODS Using hierarchical models, we evaluated hospital variation in rates of delayed defibrillation (>2 minutes) and its impact on survival among 7479 adult inpatient...