BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Continuous services provision of a hospital before and after a disaster is one of the most prominent issues that all people, especially the authorities must take into huge consideration. Concerning the experiences of previous earthquakes, the role and importance of nonstructural components becomes increasingly clear in the uninterrupted services of hospitals. In this st...

OBJECTIVE To assess antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) and strategies in California general acute care hospitals and to describe the effect of state legislation (Senate Bill 739) requiring hospitals to develop processes for evaluating the judicious use of antimicrobials. DESIGN Web-based survey of general acute care hospitals. PARTICIPANTS All 422 general acute care hospital campuses...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Carotid artery stenting may be an economically attractive procedure for hospitals and physicians. We sought to identify the association of hospital ownership (nonprofit versus for-profit) on carotid artery stenting (CAS) versus carotid endarterectomy utilization in US hospitals. METHODS Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample admissions for cerebrovascular disease from 20...

purpose: body image is a person’s body shape in his/her mind. negative body image is associated   with low self-esteem, depression, eating disorder and body dimorphic disorder. the aim of   this study was to investigate the role of body image on sexual performance of married women   nurses in tehran.   materials and methods: in this correlation study, 200 married women nurses working in public ...

BACKGROUND The hospital standardized mortality ratio (HSMR) is developed to evaluate and improve hospital quality. Different methods can be used to standardize the hospital mortality ratio. Our aim was to assess the validity and applicability of directly and indirectly standardized hospital mortality ratios. METHODS Retrospective scenario analysis using routinely collected hospital data to co...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) data and private databases containing new-generation intravenous needleless connector (study NC) use at the hospital level were linked. The relative risk (RR) of CLABSI associated with the study NCs was estimated, adjusting for hospital characteristics. Among 3074 eligibl...

The organisation and design of field hospitals within the British Army has been under review since the Gulf War. This paper discusses principles for the organisation and design of field hospitals and makes suggestions for further development. The paper describes the deployment of field hospitals from a 25 bed hospital troop up to a 200 bed field hospital.

Department of Haematology, Oxford Cancer and Haematology Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, HPC Transplant Programme, Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow, Department of Haematology, East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust, Canterbury, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, Department of Haematology, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University, ...

AIM To analyze hospital financing and delivery of inpatient services, financial requirements of the hospitals, and their ability to meet these requirements were determined. METHODS Data on financial performance of 41 hospitals were collected using a standardized questionnaire. Patient survey, group discussions with hospital administrators, and interviews with policy-makers were also used. R...

Background: African-Americans are more likely be seen by physicians with less clinical training or treated at hospitals with deficient times to acute reperfusion therapies. Less is known about differences in health outcomes. This paper compares risk-adjusted mortality following Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) between U.S. hospitals with high and low fractions of elderly black AMI patients. Me...