INTRODUCTION Hospital based delivery has been an expensive experience for poor households because of hidden costs which are usually unaccounted in hospital costs. The main aim of this study was to estimate the hidden costs of hospital based delivery and determine the factors associated with the hidden costs. METHODS A hospital based cross-sectional study was conducted among 384 post-partum mo...

To succeed in today's challenging healthcare environment, hospitals must examine their impact on customers--patients and families--staff and physicians. By using competitive facility design and incorporating evidence-based concepts such as the acuity adaptable care delivery model and the universal room, the hospital will realize an impact on patient satisfaction that will enhance market share, ...

From the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (H.K.E., W.R.C.) and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (E.S.L.), Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston; and the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany (H.K.E.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Camann at the Department of Anest...

BACKGROUND Promoting breastfeeding is a central aim of child health care. It is critical to develop approaches that are inexpensive, effective, and suitable across cultural and socioeconomic groups. OBJECTIVE To study the effect of training perinatal-neonatal nursing and medical staff in breastfeeding guidance on the duration of breastfeeding in a middle-income urban population. METHODS Thi...

during the long years, diagnosis of fever in labor was an interesting and important subject for health groups and the main reason was the increased mortality rate of women that were affected by these infections after delivery. the most common serious complication after delivery is infection . usually 1 to 7 percent of women are affected by postpartum infection . a symptom of this type of infect...

background: women's dissatisfaction with childbirth experience may have immediate and long-term effects on their health and relationship with infant. there is not enough documented researchs in this area. the aim of this study was to evaluate effects of li4 acupressure on delivery satisfaction in women referring to fatemieh hospital in shahroud.  methods: in this experimental study 100 women in...

the objective of this study has been to examine the relationship between home and the hospital confinement in the treatment of serious illness and the impact of such phenomena on the pattern of the delivery of health care in the rural areas. in this study a total of 10,248 inhabitants of 11 villages in isphahan (mobarakeh area) were studied during a six months period between march and september...