The new funding system for Australia's public hospitals has not been shown to be effective and is likely to fragment and undermine services that require cooperation rather than competition.

It is my pleasure to welcome you formally as clinical medical students at the Royal Victoria Hospital. All of you already will have been here long enough to realise that the successful metabolism of this hospital depends in large part on the integrative action of the main corridor. As you walk down the corridor you will meet your friends, and recognise all the different members ofthe hospital s...

BACKGROUND In an integrated method of education, medical students are introduced to radiology in their preclinical years. However, no study has been conducted in Pakistan to demonstrate an academic framework of medical radiology education at an undergraduate level. Therefore, we aimed to document and compare the current level of teaching duties, teaching methodologies, and teaching rewards amon...

BACKGROUND During the last three decades, ethics committees have been formed with a growing trend. These committees have a satisfactory and effective impact on the pattern of patient care and its performance. The medical ethics committee is considered one of the most active committees in hospitals, having the aim of providing necessary approaches for the optimal use of the findings in empirical...

INTRODUCTION Torsion of the testis is a well known entity having been first described in detail in 1840. To establish if the management of torsion of the testis has changed in recent years we have carried out a retrospective review of cases presenting to three teaching hospitals and two district general hospitals in Northern Ireland over the three years to 1985. METHODS

background: patient education is widely recognized as a core component of nursing. patient education can lead to quality outcomes including adherence, quality of life, patients' knowledge of their illness and self-management. this study aimed to clarify patient education process in teaching hospitals affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences (tums) in iran.   methods : this cross-sect...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century a separate team of women called the "night watch" was responsible for the night nursing in the London teaching hospitals. Rough, uneducated, and frequently the "scrubbers," or charwomen, who cleaned the halls and stairways in the hospitals in the daytime, the night watchers came to be closely identified with Dickens's Sarah Gamp. As the century progres...

introduction: patient safety culture is an important part of improvement in the safety of health care. knowing its present status is required for development of safety culture. the present study aimed to evaluate the current status of patient safety culture in hospitals of three central provinces of iran. method: the present cross-sectional study was performed in teaching hospitals of tehran, a...

introduction: electronic medical records has of practically paved the way to centralize information without being worried about physical space. although iran, from technological point of view, is able to compete with developed countries, it has fallen because of medical records technology. in this study, hospital information systems in educational hospitals in tehran province were compared with...