harmaceutical prices have risen draP l matically in the past 10 years and will I continue to escalate for the next two or three years, Michael Pollard told participants at Managing the Rising Cost of Drugs : A Mult idiscipl inary Approach to Improving Hospital Services, a November 1991 meeting held in Westborough, MA. Pollard, long-time pharmaceutical analyst and partner at the Washington, DC, ...

This article discusses management practices that hospital administrators can use to minimize the exposure to property taxation. First, the results of a national survey on the extensiveness of property tax exemption are reviewed. Next, a review of the history of recent developments in Utah is presented, including the recent ruling of the Utah State Supreme Court that "nonprofit" status does not ...

This study examines the effects of professional certifications such as JCAHO on healthcare information technology (HIT) usage in healthcare organizations and user satisfaction with such usage. Using survey data collected from healthcare administrators in a nation-wide sample of 347 hospitals and long-term care facilities, we provide evidence that professional certifications do indeed enhance HI...

OBJECTIVES In this paper, we explore similarities and differences in hospital adverse event (AE) rates between Norway and Sweden by reviewing medical records with the Global Trigger Tool (GTT). DESIGN All acute care hospitals in both countries performed medical record reviews, except one in Norway. Records were randomly selected from all eligible admissions in 2013. Eligible admissions were p...

The shift to ambulatory surgery has taken decades. The history and causation of the move are complex. Key enablers are recounted. The complex interchange of ideas, and physicians, between Belfast and Boston was important in the development of relevant facilitating standards. US and UK governmental and hospital statistics in the increase of ambulatory surgery are presented. The transition of sur...

The Transition cost accounting system integrates clinical, resource utilization, and financial information and is currently being used by several hospitals in Canada and the United States to calculate the costs of patient care. Our objectives were to review the use of hospital-based cost accounting systems to measure costs of treatment and discuss potential use of the Transition cost accounting...

OBJECTIVE To understand the process that led Brazilian philanthropic general hospitals to implement psychiatric units and to describe the main characteristics and therapeutic approaches of these services. METHODS Ten institutions in three Brazilian states (Minas Gerais, São Paulo e Santa Catarina) were assessed in 2002. Forty-three semi-structured interviews were carried out with health profe...

introduction: standard codes and their descriptions are important tools for research, design, implementation and evaluation of the injury control program and its sub-categories. methods: in this research the medical records of 735 patients diagnosed with injuries, burns or poisonings from teaching-hospitals of the iran, tehran and shahid beheshti medical universities (n=22) were selected to be ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of the neonatal care delivered by an advanced neonatal nurse practitioner led service at Ashington Hospital, Northumberland. SETTING Maternity service with no resident paediatric medical input. DESIGN Comparison of quality measures on sentinel cases with five comparator hospitals using modified confidential enquiry. RESULTS On six out of seven dimensions,...