BACKGROUND There is an increasing trend of outsourcing public departments. Teaching hospitals also outsourced some of their departments to private sectors. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the educational status of students in public and outsourced departments of teaching hospitals affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences. METHODS This study was conducted in six t...

OBJECTIVE To determine if hospital-based clinical pharmacy services and pharmacy staffing continue to be associated with mortality rates. METHODS A database was constructed from 1998 MedPAR, American Hospital Association's Annual Survey of Hospitals, and National Clinical Pharmacy Services databases, consisting of data from 2,836,991 patients in 885 hospitals. Data from hospitals that had 14 ...

Since October 1, 2012, the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, established by the Affordable Care Act, has imposed financial penalties on hospitals with high readmission rates for targeted conditions covered by Medicare. This program has led to reductions in readmissions even for conditions that were not initially targeted for such penalties.1 Although this program has almost exclusively ta...

Job satisfaction among registered nurses has become a burningmatter in the medicalcare sectors, mainly for public hospitalsin Bangladesh. Literature is evident that little known regarding associated reasons influence nurses’ job satisfaction. Objective: Aim of this study was identified predictive power intrinsic motivation, extrinsic servant leadership head nurses, marital status, educational l...

Hospitals, nurses, the media, Congress, and the private sector are increasingly concerned about shortages of registered nurses (RNs) and the impact on safety and quality of patient care. Findings from a growing number of studies provide evidence of a relationship between hospital nurse staffing and adverse outcomes experienced by medical and surgical patients. These findings have policy implica...

Although medical facilities restrict smoking inside, many people continue to smoke outside, creating problems with second-hand smoke, litter, fire risks, and negative role modeling. In 2005, Arkansas passed legislation prohibiting smoking on medical facility campuses. Hospital administrators (N=113) were surveyed pre- and post-implementation. Administrators reported more support and less diffic...

decisive break away from the hospitals' traditional orientation. The reactionary old clique of administrators was overturned, and new faces entered hospital administration, bringing with them a more liberal approach and a more receptive attitude to medical innovation. The ablebodied, incurables, and malingerers were more carefully weeded out, in an effort to make hospital populations truly "cas...