OBJECTIVE To examine whether basing regionalization on risk-adjusted mortality would lead to better population outcomes than basing regionalization on procedure volume. DATA SOURCE We used secondary data from the California State Inpatient Database obtained from the Healthcare Costs and Utilization Project. STUDY DESIGN A population-based retrospective cohort study of 243 thousand patients ...

Background: Since health-promoting lifestyle is an important determinant of health status, this study aimed to compare the health-promoting lifestyle in medical and non-medical students of Guilan, Iran. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with a descriptive-analytical approach that was performed on 1319 students of medical sciences and non-medical sciences in Guilan, 2014. The data collec...

ecent observational evidence suggests there is considerable scope for improving the quality of hospital care for severely ill children in many developing countries. 1 In a study of 21 hospitals in Asia and Africa that evaluated the management of 131 children, more than half were under treated or inappropriately treated with antibiotics, fluids, feeding, or oxygen. Inadequate triage and assessme...

Health system reforms are implemented for improvement of the effectiveness, efficiency, quality , equity of health systems and for the ultimate purpose of universal health coverage (1). There is a wide range of experiences with the implementation of health sector change in different countries in the last decade. In Iran, recently Ministry of Health and Medical Education announced master plan fo...

background hispanics comprise 17% of the total u.s. population, surpassing african-americans as the largest minority group. linguistically, almost 60 million people speak a language other than english. this language diversity can create barriers and additional burden and risk when seeking health services. patients with limited english proficiency (lep) for example, have been shown to experience...

INTRODUCTION Recently, an increase has been observed in the number of patients suffering from diseases which are the consequence of an anti-health life style; therefore it is necessary to undertake proper actions in this area, including those addressed to hospital staff. OBJECTIVES 1) Comparison of self-reported state of health and life style between hospital staff in Sweden and Poland, and t...

Registered nurses and midwives are in short supply have among the highest rates of sick leave global workforce. The aim this study was therefore to explore gain a deeper understanding how experience their everyday work, with view toward promoting sustaining work-related health. Nine registered four working hospitals community healthcare facilities Sweden were interviewed. interviews analyzed us...