1HE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE is to present useful information and suggestions that have been found of practical value in a general hospital in dealing with problems arising from accidental, suicidal, and industrial intoxication. This material is based on background experience gained in the laboratory of Dr. A. 0. Gettler, Chief Toxicologist to the Medical Examiner of the City of New York, and in...

This article presents the results of a simulation model designed to reduce patient waiting time in the emergency department of a hospital in the United Arab Emirates. The process-oriented simulation model shows how the resources in the hospital are inter-related. The model depicts the hospital operating system and its performance and management issues with regards to allocation of human and mat...

OBJECTIVES In this research, the hospital information system of Gachon University Gil hospital is introduced and a future strategy for hospital information systems is proposed. METHODS This research introduces the development conditions of hospital information system at Gachon University Gil hospital, information about the development of the enterprise resource planning (ERP), a medical servi...

As it became clear that I was likely to have an ongoing contact with the hospital, both as an in -patient and an outpatient, I thought, perhaps naively, that I might link the experience to one of my professional interests Improving the Quality of Service in the Public Sector a major emerging theme for public servants. Here was an opportunity to observe service first hand as a customer from insi...

This paper reports from an ethnographic study of hospital planning in England undertaken between 2006 and 2009. We explored how a policy to centralise hospital services was espoused in national policy documents, how this shifted over time and how it was translated in practice. We found that policy texts defined hospital planning as a clinical issue and framed decisions to close hospitals or hos...