Pharmacy is one of the services providing the hospital. Its mission concerns the supply of the drugs for the patients which remain in the hospital. This paper describes the modelling methodology used to specify a knowledge model of the pharmacy service of a new French hospital. We first describe the pharmacy service of the old hospital using ARIS analysis tool, then we define the functioning of...

Background: In Iran, a combination of three methods of budget payment, fee for service and case-based payment (known as the global payment system) is used to reimburse the cost of hospital services. The aim of this study was to investigate the costs of 90 services of the Global Hospital Reimbursement System at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional app...

1 Département des Laboratoires, Laboratoire des Catécholamines et Peptides, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; 2 Laboratoire de Diagnostic Moléculaire, Service de Génétique Médicale, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; 3 Service d’Endocrinologie et Diabétologie de l’Hôpital Cantonal de Fribourg, Villars-sur-Glȃne, Switzerland; 4 Institute of Pathology, U...

BACKGROUND Children with chronic complex-medical conditions comprise a small minority of children who require substantial healthcare with major implications for hospital utilization and costs in pediatrics. Community-Based Pediatric Palliative Care (CBPPC) provides a holistic approach to patient care that can improve their quality of life and lead to reduced costs of hospital care. This study's...

AFFILIATION: a Allergy Service, Infanta Leonor Hospital, Madrid, Spain; b Allergy Unit, Malaga Regional University Hospital-IBIMA, UMA, Malaga, Spain; c Research Laboratory, Malaga Regional University Hospital-IBIMA, UMA, Malaga, Spain; d Chemical Technology Institute, UPV-CSIC, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; e Allergy Unit, Pneumology and Allergy Service, Clinic Hospital,...

Gurhan Erturan,1 Harriet Holme,2 Anna Cassoni,2 Roberto Tirabosco,3 Rob Pollock,4 Tim Briggs,4 Maria Michelagnoli2 Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital, Oxford; 2The London Sarcoma Service, University College London Hospital, London; 3Department of Pathology, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore; 4The London Sarco...

OBJECTIVES To examine emergency medical services (EMS) usage by children in one state. METHODS Dispatch of an EMS vehicle in response to a call in the US is referred to as a "run". Runs for Utah for 1991-92 were linked to corresponding hospital records. Abbreviated injury severity scores (AISs) were assigned using ICDMAP-90 software. RESULTS For the two year period there were at least 15 EM...

The application of sharia principles in business activities and services adds to standard compliance some them are trapped the legalistic formality aspect rather than improving ethics. In hospitals, which main is providing health services, applying may enhance added value or just a formal aspect. purpose this study seeks reveal community's response standards hospitals. used quantitative researc...