Introduction: According to WHO, patient safety is the prevention of errors and adverse effects to patients associated with health care. There is a significant impact of physical environment on health and patient safety. Identifying and eliminating built environment conditions that negatively impact patient safety during various phases of construction of healthcare facilities is a strong need of...

BACKGROUND Pediatric palliative care (PPC) improves the quality of life for children with life-limiting conditions, but the cost of care associated with PPC has not been quantified. This study examined the association between inpatient cost and receipt of PPC among high-cost inpatients. METHODS The 10% most costly inpatients treated at a children's hospital in 2010 were studied, and factors a...

BACKGROUND The pursuit of equity in health and healthcare has been the key feature of health policy in India. However, despite the policy significance, the volume of literature available on this issue is scarce. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to examine the horizontal inequities in healthcare utilization, consisting of outpatient and inpatient care in 15 major states and north-eastern regi...

INTRODUCTION The objective of our study was to determine the socioecologic factors that predict readiness for self-management and transition from pediatric to adult health care services, adherence to taking medications, and health care utilization among adolescents and young adults with chronic kidney disease. METHODS We enrolled 52 adolescents and young adults aged 13 to 21 (96.5% participat...

OBJECTIVES To develop a measure of parental perceptions of pediatric inpatient quality of care, to identify processes of care that influence these perceptions, and to describe these perceptions of care. DESIGN An interdisciplinary team modified an existing measure of inpatient care for adults using focus groups and expert review. The resulting survey was administered by telephone. SETTING T...

The aim of this article is to collect and compare opinions medical personnel on electronic records (EMR) systems used in health care facilities Poland, both outpatient (i.e. urgent care) inpatient clinics hospitals).

Inpatient suicide is defined as during full or partial hospitalisation that takes place either on the hospital premises (hospital suicide) course of exits and periods leave, in grounds elsewhere. In this work, a descriptive epidemiological account given total 18 inpatient suicides committed over last 10 years stays at psychiatric ward provides mandatory care.

BACKGROUND The issue of continuity of care is central in contemporary psychiatric services research. In Norway, inpatient admissions are mainly to take place locally, in a system of small bed-units that represent an alternative to traditional central psychiatric hospitals. This type of organization may be advantageous for accessibility and cooperation, but has been given little scientific atten...

aim: patients' satisfaction (ps) is a dominant concept in medical care, due to the gap in the literature on persian version of ps instruments, this study has conducted with aim to analyze the validity and reliability of self-designed najmiyeh inpatient satisfaction questionnaire (nisq). methods: this study was carried out on 247 inpatients that came in najmiyeh subspecialty hospital in tehran (...