OBJECTIVE To assess surgical team members' differences in perception of non-technical skills. DESIGN Questionnaire design. SETTING Operating theatres (OTs) at one university hospital, three teaching hospitals and one general hospital in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS Sixty-six surgeons, 97 OT nurses, 18 anaesthetists and 40 nurse anaesthetists. METHODS All surgical team members, of five ...

INTRODUCTION Blood glucose control has been found to be an important component in the care of hospitalized patients. Maintaining blood glucose within a target range using insulin intensively is a challenging task for physicians and requires skill and experience. We hypothesized that there may be more hyper- and hypoglycemia in July in teaching hospitals when new resident physicians begin their ...

OBJECTIVE The commitment of employees is affected by several factors, including factors related to the organizational climate. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational commitment of nurses and the organizational climate in hospital settings. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2014 at two teaching hospitals in Yazd, Iran. A total of 90 nurs...

This paper examines the relationships between patient volume, teaching mission, and process quality in U.S. hospitals. Using a large data set that measures process quality for treatments of heart attacks and heart failures in all major U.S. hospitals, the authors find that the impact of patient volume on process quality varies across hospitals with different teaching intensities. Their results ...

Aims: This study aims at comparing hospitals’ organizational traits and nurses and hospitals’ characteristics between teaching, governmental, and private hospitals in Jordan, as perceived by Registered Nurses (RNs). Methods: The Revised Nursing Work Index (NWI-R) 1 was used to collect data from a convenience sam of 295 nurses who were employed in two teaching hospitals, four governmental hospit...

BACKGROUND The Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) expansion strategy through Public-Private Mix (PPM) is in progress at an international level as well as in Indonesia. The number of hospitals involved in PPM has been rapidly scaling up, requiring the assessment of quality of implementation. OBJECTIVE The paper presents the assessment of quality in implementing DOTS strategy in ho...

introduction. despite the implementation of hospital autonomy in many developed (france, denmark) and developing countries(ghana, zimbabwe, kenya and indonesia) since the early 1980s , relatively little research has been directed towards evaluating the experiences of these hospitals .efficiency, equity, accountability and quality of care can be considered as four main evaluative criteria in ass...

Although the number of U.S. hospitals offering an acute pain service (APS) is increasing, the typical structure remains unknown. This survey was undertaken to describe the structure and function of the APS in U.S. hospitals only. We contacted 200 non-teaching and 101 teaching U.S. hospitals. The person in charge of postoperative pain management completed and returned the survey. Seventy-four pe...

We consider the impact of cohort turnover—the planned simultaneous exit of a large number of experienced employees and a similarly sized entry of new workers—on productivity in the context of teaching hospitals. Specifically, we examine the impact of the annual July turnover of residents in American teaching hospitals on levels of resource utilization and quality in teaching hospitals relative ...