OBJECTIVE This multisite study compared the perceptions of three stakeholder groups regarding information technologies as barriers to and facilitators of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). DESIGN The study settings were 18 U.S. Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. A purposive sample of 322 individuals participated in 50 focus groups segmented by profession and included administrators, physicia...

Adolescents stand to benefit greatly from improved electronic access to reliable health information and health care. Use of electronic health records (EHRs) can potentially improve health care accessibility, effectiveness, and safety but can create challenges for the ongoing protection of patient confidentiality and privacy. Protection of adolescent confidentiality as dictated by applicable law...

Length of stay (LOS) in acute psychiatric hospitals has long been a focus of attention and this has been heightened in recent years with the current economic climate and a growing realization that health care costs need to be contained. Length of stay (LOS) has a strong positive relationship with the cost of hospitalization; thus, LOS has become an important marker for hospital administrators, ...

In this paper, we identify 8 methods used to measure errors and adverse events in health care and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. We focus on the reliability and validity of each, as well as the ability to detect latent errors (or system errors) versus active errors and adverse events. We propose a general framework to help health care providers, researchers, and administrators choose t...

Student mental health crises have increasingly been a point of concern for campus safety officials (as well as other administrators on campus). The COVID‐19 pandemic has only increased reports concerns, according to survey by the Center Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State University.

Per NJAC 8:57, health care providers and administrators shall immediately report by telephone confirmed and suspected cases of viral hemorrhagic fever to the health officer of the jurisdiction where the ill or infected person lives, or if unknown, wherein the diagnosis is made. The health officer (or designee) must immediately institute the control measures listed below in section 6, “Controlli...

In some radiology departments, the lack of alignment between administrators and radiologists can pose significant challenges. This article describes how differences in background and priorities between administrators and radiologists can contribute to conflict and presents strategies on how to manage the conflict in a way that can leverage positive change. Strategies to build relations between ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore the resilience of adult children of alcoholics (ACOA) who are college students, and examine factors contributing to their resilience. METHODS A total of 459 college students from a university in Incheon, participated in this study. Data were collected between April 6 to 30, 2010 using the Korean version of the Children of Alcoholics Screening T...