Background and Objectives: Violence toward healthcare workers has emerged as an important health problem. This type of violence has the potential to severely influence healthcare workers, patients, and the community. This study aimed to explore the prevalence of violence in emergency departments, and to identify associated risk fac‌tors using a sample of emergency department healthcare workers ...

conclusions in general, time indices including length of patient stay in the ed and space capacity, emphasizing the need to address these shortcomings. materials and methods this analytical cross-sectional study was conducted via the faculty members of the ed and residents of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences in tehran, iran. data were collected using a predefined questionnaire. de...

introduction: job satisfaction is one of the key factors affecting professional success which, in turn, allows an organization to achieve its objectives. and ultimately it can result in individual and social health. thus, managers are highly concerned with factors affecting job satisfaction. in this study, it was decided to investigate factors determining the staff's job satisfaction. methods a...

Journal of Investigative Surgery Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713723105 Hugh Hampton Young Father of Modern American Urology Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra ab a Michigan State University/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Borgess Research Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA b Department of Surger...

Andre P. Schmidt1,2,3,4 and Jose Otavio C. Auler Jr.1 1Department of Anesthesia, Instituto Central, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 2Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, 3Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, 4Department of Surgery, Federal...

Received for publication: Dec 8, 2005. Revised: Apr. 11, 2006. rEZUMat Director, Obstetric Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, USA

Authors Adam R. Aluisio

The devastating earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, resulted in massive destruction and human suffering that captured attention worldwide. This column details the experiences shared by the anesthesia department aboard the USNS Comfort. A total of 843 urgent and emergent surgical cases were completed. The mission included cooperation of both military and civilian anesthesia providers. The l...

This is the first of a series of upcoming articles which will focus on the Joint Comnmission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH) standards relative to quality assurance in anesthesia services. In this article, the author explains the JCAH standards' impact on anesthesia services. Future articles will utilize case examples of how individual anesthesia departments have improved patient care thro...