OBJECTIVE To assess the quality of toilet facilities available for disabled people in a large provincial teaching hospital. DESIGN Survey of toilet facilities for patients on the wards and in the outpatient department. SETTING Teaching hospital in Leeds. RESULTS Although the quality of toilet facilities varied, none met the standards recommended by the British Standards Institution. The w...

There is a growing concern about Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) globally in hospitals, especially after the recent outbreak of diseases like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Swine Flu (H1N1) and other airborne infections such as Tuberculosis. The semi-arid climatic condition in the study area (Maiduguri, Nigeria) which is characterised by Harmattan dust blowing from the northeast, and preval...

BACKGROUND This paper focuses on communication between hospital staff and family carers of patients dying on acute hospital wards, with an emphasis on the family carers' perspective. The age at which people in the UK die is increasing and many continue to die in the acute hospital setting. Concerns have been expressed about poor quality end of life care in hospitals, in particular regarding com...

UNLABELLED Weekend admission is associated with higher in-hospital mortality than weekday admission. Whether providing enhanced weekend staffing for acute medical inpatient services reduces mortality or length of stay is unknown. METHODS This paper describes a retrospective analysis of in-hospital mortality and length of stay before and after introduction of an enhanced, consultant-led weeken...

BACKGROUND Several experiences of Bed Management have been published, most of them focusing on Emergency Department organization. Aosta Hospital is 70 km away from the nearest Hospital, so that ambulance diversion is not feasible and patients' admissions from ED need to be managed at the local level solely. Aim of this study was to test efficacy of an innovative Bed Management model. SETTING ...

BACKGROUND In the modern hospital environment, increasing possibilities in medical examination techniques and increasing documentation tasks claim the physicians' energy and encroach on their time spent with patients. This study aimed to investigate how much time physicians at hospital wards spend on communication with patients and their families and how much time they spend on other specific w...

nursing manpower plays an important role in care quality and health promotion. so any health care organization without an efficient nursing unit is not expected to survive for a long time. this study was conducted to estimate the number of the necessary nursing manpower for the selected hospitals according to the proposed model by the iran ministry of health.this research is a cross wardal stud...

introduction: the patient’s satisfaction from hospital services is one of the most important criteria for the effectiveness and quality of the services presented in different wards of hospitals. this study aims at determining the satisfaction of patients admitted in razi hospital in ghazvin from the presented services there. materials and methods: this is a cross-sectional study performed in ra...

Efforts to boost productivity in hospital wards will fail unless acute nurses and other key staff are involved from the beginning, suggests an RCN policy briefing.

Casks of cerebellar abscess are so rare in the wards of the General Hospital that I need make no excuse for presenting this one to you. Several other interesting features in the progress and history of the disease make it particularly worthy of record. Alice Nona, a Singhalese girl of 8 years of age, was admitted into one of my wards on the 17th of January last, in a ^emi-conscious state, with ...