In recent years there have been marked changes in organisational structures and budgetary arrangements in the English NHS, potentially altering the relationships between purchasers (primary care organisations (PCOs) and general practices) and providers. Using data on elective hospital admissions from 1997/98 to 2002/03 we find that commissioning has become significantly more concentrated at PCO...

background rapid response teams (rrts) assess patients during early phases of deterioration to reduce patient morbidity and mortality. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the ability of earlier medical intervention by a rrt prompted by clinical instability in patients to reduce the incidence of and mortality from unexpected cardiac arrest at our hospital. patients and methods a nonrandomize...

background: users of hospital information system (his) use these systems durâ­ing working day and know its problems better than othâ­ers know. studying their views is very important and can be espeâ­cially effective in the development of the inâ­formation system. the aim of this study was to investigate the users' views toâ­wards the qualâ­ity of hospital information system in the training hosp...

Sağlık kurumlarında yaşanan dijital dönüşümün en önemli temsillerinden biri hastanelerdir. Dijital hastanelerin tıbbi ve olmayan birçok iş akış sürecinde, teknolojik sistemler modüller kendine yer bulmaktadır. Araştırma tam hastane unvanına sahip olan ilk şehir hastanesinde çalışanlar üzerinde konuya ilişkin yürütülen çalışma niteliğini taşıması ile önem arz etmektedir. kapsamında EMRAM Seviye ...

Solid-phase immunosorbent hemadsorption (SPIHAtl) for specific IgM detennination has been introduced for rubella serodiagnosis in combination with hemagglutination inhibition test (HAl) during the outbreak prevaDed from September 1983 to August 1984 with its peak in March. By HAl test, 92.7% of patients with apparent rubella infection whose first blood was obtained within 3 days after rash show...

server that hosts the hospital’s electronic medical records system, and for the internal memory of all client terminals. The hospital also decided to improve network performance for the accelerated storage platform. “By connecting backend servers, the existing 1 Gbps metal network could be upgraded to 10 Gbps optical fiber, which hugely boosts transmission speed,” explained Torikai. “We have ad...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Malnutrition is frequently observed in chronic and severe diseases and associated with impaired outcome. In Germany general data on prevalence and impact of hospital malnutrition are missing. METHODS Nutritional state was assessed by subjective global assessment (SGA) and by anthropometric measurements in 1,886 consecutively admitted patients in 13 hospitals (n=1,073, univer...

background: hospitals in iran are not prepared for disasters the aim of this study was to determine the effect of training functional and nonstructural hospital safety to nurses and their intervention on hospital preparedness in psychiatric razi hospital and day hospital in tehran based on hospital safety index (hsi). materials  and  methods:  this  semi-experimental  study  included  nurse  ma...