Introduction: One of the necessary features to confront the COVID-19 pandemic is performance and resilience which causes nursing managers to have a wider perspective based on preventing preparation and reaction to the disaster. This study aims to evaluate the nursing perspectives on nursing management during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Methods: One hundred eighty-nine Iranian nurses working in a Co...

Introduction: A hospital is one of society’s most important social institutions; however, poor organizational performance results in delayed treatment, disease progression, or patient mortality. This qualitative study seeks to investigate organizational excellence in Iranian medical sciences universities from the perspective of hospital managers. Material and Methods: The present qualitative s...

Coxian phase-type distributions are a special type of Markov model that describes duration until an event occurs in terms of a process consisting of a sequence of latent phases. This paper considers the use of Coxian phase-type distributions for modelling patient duration of stay for the elderly in hospital and investigates the potential for using the resulting distribution as a classifying var...

Background and Objectives: Outsourcing healthcare and the associated services has proven as an effective strategy for enhancing hospital performance and improving quality of services. Despite, the concept is relatively new in Iran, calling for studies investigating different aspects of the issue and its potential benefits. Thus, this study was conducted to explore the impact of outsourcing mana...

This study's aim was to understand the role of nurse managers in the process of hospital accreditation.This qualitative case study was conducted in a large private hospital in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. Five nurse managers were interviewed using a semi-structured script from April to May, 2011 and content analysis was used to interpret the data. Results show the strategic position of this prof...

In this paper, a prediction model is presented that estimates the evacuation time in an emergency situation for hospitals. The model is generic enough to be used in various hospital settings. This model can provide incident managers with estimates of the evacuation times of different types of patients and can offer support to the managers with their resource allocation decisions in emergency si...

We develop a new methodology for measuring management practices in hospitals, and use this in 182 interviews of physicians and managers in public and private hospitals (covering 61% of English acute trusts). We find our management measure is strongly correlated with hospital performance, both clinical outcomes like survival rates from heart attacks, and general operational and financial outcome...

introduction: length of stay is one of the most important and most practical indices used in hospitals today and presents the performance and efficiency of the hospitals. on the other hand, hierarchical analysis technique, one of the group decision making techniques, is utilized to determine priorities. therefore, this study was conducted to identify the factors affecting length of stay in alza...

abstract background and purpose: ethical climate is hinged upon organizational culture, rules, and policies; nurses’ perception of this concept varies according to the ward they are working on and the new rules of the treatment system. this can exert adverse impact on their care method and performance. thus, this study aimed to determine nurses’ perceptions of the ethical climate governing the ...

In the Division of Anatomical Pathology of a teaching hospital at the beginning of each month, clinical managers assign expected daily pathology requests to the pathologists on duty. Since the number of these requests is usually large and a division employs a number of pathologists with different sub-specialties, the size of the problem is significant and finding a feasible assignment schedule ...