Abstract Background and Aims Onconephrology is a rapidly evolving nephrology subspecialty that focuses on the interaction between cancer kidney. Our aim was to describe clinical activity of Nephrology Department in care center, 2-year period. Method We retrospectively analyzed patients observed by at our center 2021 2022. Demographic, laboratory data were collected. The statistical analysis per...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the intravenous (IV) medication wastage within the inpatient pharmacy services at a teaching hospital, and to highlight the main causes for such waste and propose a policy to minimize wastage based on the study findings. METHODS For a one month period starting from September until October 2009, the returned and unused IV medications to the inpatient pharmacy in a teac...

BACKGROUND Rigorous evaluation of an intervention requires that its allocation be unbiased with respect to confounders; this is especially difficult in complex, system-wide healthcare interventions. We developed a short survey instrument to identify factors for a minimization algorithm for the allocation of a hospital-level intervention to reduce emergency department (ED) waiting times in Ontar...

Background and objectives: Nurses due to the nature of their job faced with significant mental workload. This can cause nursing occupational accidents. The aim of this study was to explore the effects of mental workload on occupational accidents in teaching hospital nurses. Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study was conducted from May to...

ore than one million Canadians are admitted to hospitals each year via emergency departments (EDs). The time that admitted patients waited in the ED for an in-patient bed following the decision to admit them is influenced by many factors including in-patient bed capacity, the size and staffing of EDs and hospitals, hospital operational patterns and changes in the demand for hospital services (B...

INTRODUCTION Age and comorbidity are associated with length of stay (LOS) and mortality. Our aim was to compare acutely ill elderly medical patients in geriatric care with general medical care, and to examine the effects of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA). MATERIAL AND METHODS In an observational study, we used data from patients aged 80+ years who had been acutely admitted to depart...

There are few published papers on patient satisfaction with food or nutrition services in either acute or chronic health care settings. The aim of this study was to evaluate two questionnaires for measuring patient satisfaction with hospital foodservice, the "Parkside Inpatient Questionnaire" and the "Wesley Hospital Foodservice Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire". Data were collected from 540 ...