Department of Family Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul; Department of Family Medicine, Healthcare System Gangnam Centre, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul; Department of Family Medicine, Konkuk University Hospital, Seoul; Department of Health Policy and Management, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul; National Health Insurance Corporation, Seoul; Minis...

OBJECTIVE This paper describes the need for and development of a policy on patient sexuality implemented at a provincial psychiatric hospital. METHOD The need for a policy was assessed by reviewing the literature and interviewing a sample of chronic psychiatric patients. Development of the policy involved surveying 38 Canadian psychiatric hospitals in search of an existing policy to use as a ...

BACKGROUND In June 2010, the Communities Putting Prevention to Work program (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) funded a New Jersey (NJ) Office on Nutrition and Fitness, Department of Health and Senior Services project to reduce obesity and increase exclusive breastfeeding by increased implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in the state of NJ. At baseline, NJ had no Ba...

INTRODUCTION Delayed discharge from acute hospital has been a cause of concern for the last 10 years. Older people with complex health needs are particularly vulnerable to delayed discharge with negative consequences for their health and wellbeing. SOURCE OF DATA Review of the literature on the impact of the Community Care (Delayed Discharge) Act (2003) and subsequent policy initiatives on de...

Hospitals, even five years past the events of September 11, with their unguarded front doors and unlocked patient rooms have conspicuously failed to implement even basic security procedures to protect the society's most vulnerable against violence. The degree of complacency is so great that even hospitals that have experienced shootings refuse to institute basic security measures such as metal ...

BACKGROUND Strategic investments and policy directives of the Indian Government has demonstrated highest degree of political commitment for maternal and child health care. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of the rise in institutional deliveries in India on perinatal mortality. METHODS Hospital delivery rate and perinatal mortality rate (PNMR), reported by Sample Registration System, Regist...

Work being done with subnormal adolescents at Northgate and District Hospital arose as a part of the overall hospital policy?that a subnormality hospital should provide the facilities for the management and treatment of all problems affecting the subnormal and severely subnormal. Of course, this is an ideal which is not easily obtained, but we feel that it is one which we should try to achieve ...

BACKGROUND Preventable adverse events from hospital care are a common patient safety problem, often resulting in medical complications and additional costs. In 2008, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a policy, mandated by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, targeting a list of these 'reasonably' preventable hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) for reduced reimbursement. ...