An e-message system is one of the promising communication tools for fostering better collaboration between hospitals and municipal-based homecare services. However, hospital care is often confronted with patients that need a myriad of services after discharge, of which municipal homecare is only one. We conducted a qualitative interview study to examine hospital health professionals’ experience...

Introduction. Old hospitals may promote inefficient patient care processes and safety. A new, functionally planned hospital presents a chance to create an environment that supports streamlined, patient-centered healthcare processes and adapts to users' needs. This study depicts the phases of a facility planning project for pregnant women and newborn care processes (beginning of life process) at...

The delivery of health care services has been under pressure due to limited funding and increasing demand. This has highlighted the need to increase not only the effectiveness but also the efficiency of health care delivery. Discrete-event simulation has been suggested as an analysis tool in health care management to support the planning of health care resources. The overall purpose of this the...

TIHE Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, has had a family planning clinic since 1940 where general advice on family planning is offered. It is hoped to show in this paper how well received and used such a service is and how useful a means it is and could be in teaching doctors and nurses. The clinic owes its continued existence to Dr. Olive Anderson who for nineteen years conducted a fortnightly...

The objective of the current study is to describe the activities long-term care facilities are undertaking to reduce hospital admissions and readmissions by working to improve health care transitions. The data were collected via an online survey from 888 nursing facilities (NFs) and 527 residential care facilities (RCFs) that completed the care integration module of the Ohio Biennial Survey of ...

The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has Impact Factor 2.913 (2021 JCR, received June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published 2021.

The implications of an aging population are now a part of longterm hospital planning. David Foot’s Boom, Bust & Echo guides you through the process of multiplying the number of soon-to-be-older baby boomers with the high hospitalization rates of the elderly. The inevitable result is a higher demand for future hospital services, but the number of older people is not the only issue. Increasing lo...

BACKGROUND Hospital inpatient complications are one of a number of adverse health care outcomes. Reducing complications has been identified as an approach to improving care and saving resources as part of the health care reform efforts in the United States.An objective of this study was to describe the Potentially Preventable Complications software developed as a tool for evaluating hospital in...