SOCCA members are well aware of the opportunities and challenges associated with the practice of critical care medicine – as well as the value of combined anesthesiology and critical care medicine training to critically ill patients. At the same time, some anesthesia colleagues have suggested there are limited roles for critical care anesthesiologists. Critical care physicians, with their speci...

BACKGROUND The Leapfrog Group initiative has led to an increasing public demand for dedicated intensivists providing critical care services. The Acute Care Surgery training initiative promotes an expansion of trauma/surgical care and operative domain, redirecting some of our focus from critical care. Will we be able to train and enforce enough intensivists to care for critically ill surgical pa...

the process of planning and initiating health services development has been described as conceived and experienced by the working group of the health services development research project in iran. the technical steps (conceiving and describing the health services system, development of plans, preparatory step and implementation) as well as political support needed are defined and described. the...

Telehealth nursing is a specialized area of nursing practice that has grown in response to the emergence of new technologies and consumer demand for health care services in the community. HealthLinkBC Nursing Services provides symptom triage and health education to residents of British Columbia and Yukon over the phone. Unlike traditional nursing care, telenurses are limited in terms of informa...

background and objectives: social security organization (sso) is the second largest organization to the ministry of health and medical education (mohme) in providing health care services in iran. in recent years the gap between the sso’s resources and expenditures has shown an unprecedented growing trend due to the rapidly increasing demand. continuation of this trend may lead to financial imba...

OBJECTIVES To examine selected medical services for children treated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a general population setting with universal health insurance. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of administrative prescription and health services databases spanning from 1990 to 1996. SETTING British Columbia, Canada. PATIENTS Children (<19 years of age) who had receive...

abstract background: quality of care is of great importance in health services as these services have the important mission to preserve health, and to give care to the society. the present study aimed to investigate the quality of midwifery services from the viewpoint of the clients, under coverage of health care centers in isfahan, through servqual model. materials and methods: this descriptiv...

To assess the management of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and evaluate if introduction of a critical pathway improves management, we studied adults admitted with DKA to the Medicine and Critical Care Services in a US teaching hospital. Patients admitted with DKA in 1997 before implementation of the critical pathway were the control group (n=72). In 1998, housestaff and nurses in the emergency dep...