introduction: the application of organizational ethics in hospitals is one of the novel ways to improve medical ethics. nowadays achieving efficient and sufficient ethical hospital indicators seems to be inevitable. in this connection, the present study aims to determine the best indicators in hospital accreditation. methods: 69 indicators in 11 fields to evaluate hospital ethics were achieved ...

introduction: aim of current study is determination of optimal number of nurses in the emergency department of shiraz ali asghar hospital. method: current study is an applied study and belongs to operational research (or) studies. the population has been studied in this research, includes records of referred patients to the emergency department of hospital in 2008. sampling was performed in the...

The implementation of the Medicare prospective payment system has sparked the growth of similar Medicaid systems. Eight State Medicaid agencies now employ a system based on diagnosis-related groups (DRG's), and another four State Medicaid agencies are planning to implement such systems in the near future. The eight DRG-based systems in existence in 1986 are examined in this article. Preliminary...

THIS is the second annual report of the Mycological Diagnostic Service and covers the work done during 1960. After September, 1960, the laboratory was incorporated into the Queen's University Department of Microbiology without any change in the scope or function of the diagnostic service. The laboratory continued to offer to general practitioners, hospital laboratories, and clinics a routine se...

BACKGROUND Clinical management of tuberculosis in Russia involves lengthy hospitalizations, in contrast to the recommended strategy advocated by the World Health Organization. METHODS We used Fourier transform, spectral analysis and Student's t-test to analyse periodic and seasonal variations in admission and discharge rates for tuberculosis hospitalizations in 1999-2002, using routinely capt...

Background Concentration of the provision of hospital services is sometimes seen as a way to reduce costs and improve the quality and efficiency of care. This paper, based on an issue of Effective Health Care Vol 2, No 8 summarises the results of systematic reviews carried out at the University of York to assess research into the possible relation between volume of clinical activity in hospital...

PCMH is being implemented in many settings, and the concept even appears in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 6 However, implementing the PCMH model can be a major challenge, and many primary care practices may not be ready to undertake such a significant change in care delivery. This study evaluates the readiness of primary care practices for implementing PCMH and provides guidel...

BACKGROUND Because overweight and obesity are associated with comorbidities, increasing levels of overweight and obesity may impact on hospital use. METHODS Body mass index (BMI) in middle age was related to acute hospital use in 7036 men and 8327 women from the Renfrew/Paisley prospective cohort study in Scotland. Participants in this general population study were examined between 1972 and 1...

Patient satisfaction is itself a major patient outcome, not something separate. Prospective randomised trials in this field can be unethical, so that much of the available evidence is observational. However, two randomised controlled trials have been done and both were positive for continuity of care.2,3 Numerous international studies reveal that continuity of generalist care is significantly a...