conclusions hospital managers need to discover better ways to promote safety and health programs for their staff according to nurses’ area of work and their type of units. they should also encourage greater levels of participation in safety-enhancing initiatives in the hospital’s ethical climate, especially in the areas of nurses’ perceptions of their physician colleagues, and for nurses with a...

Most of studies were measuring the efficiency of hospitals in the past. The way of measuring efficiency base on the unit of hospital, and itwas difficu lt for measuring the efficiency of each department in hospital. Besides, the situation of each hospital is differentfrom the same department in other hospital. The research data in this study was obtained from National Health Insurance Database ...

introduction: hospitals like other organizations need to be evaluated continuously. this is of vital importance due to the critical role of the hospitals in the society. this study aimed to determine and compare the evaluation scores of hospitals affliated with tums with their performance. methods and materials: it is a cross - sectional study which was performed in 27 public and private hospit...

INTRODUCTION Malaria remains a real problem of public health. Its hospital care generates important expenditures for affected households. The present study aimed to estimate direct and indirect costs of severe child malaria in reference hospitals in Kinshasa. METHODOLOGY This prospective study included 1,350 children under 15 years of age suffering from severe malaria. The study was performed...

OBJECTIVES To describe hospital volumes for common pediatric specialty operations, to evaluate hospital and patient characteristics associated with operations performed at a low-volume hospital, and to evaluate outcomes with hospital volume. DESIGN Retrospective cohort using the Kids' Inpatient Database 2003. SETTING Discharges from 3438 hospitals in 36 states from 2003. PARTICIPANTS Chil...

Key Findings. (1) Hospital network participation from 2007 to 2012 increased in larger hospitals (more than 150 beds), non-government not-for-profit hospitals, and metropolitan hospitals. Network participation changed inconsistently in other types of hospitals. (2) Hospital system affiliation has generally increased in hospitals of all sizes, non-government not-for-profit hospitals, hospitals i...

background: hospital health is release to all acts for making healthy environment in hospital to prevent the prevalence of factors that cause disease out of the hospitals. at present, hospital infections are the main result of these factors and one of the most important reasons of patients' mortality. this matter directly or indirectly causes considerable increasing of hospital costs and making...

Context Healthcare organisations in Saudi Arabia are striving to improve patient safety and quality of care through implementation of safety systems and creating a culture of safety. Objective The purpose of this study to evaluate the extent to which the culture supports patient safety at Saudi hospitals. Data Collection A survey questionnaire was distributed hospital-wide in 13 general hospita...

“What are we doing here?” Brad Pitt asks a table full of weathered scouts in a memorable scene in the movie Moneyball. Playing Oakland Athletics manager Billy Beane, he goes on to critique the scouts’ traditional, subjective ranking of players as “looking for Fabio.” The fi lm is based on a book of the same name that chronicles the record-breaking success of the 2002 Oakland Athletics baseball ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In many countries, including Sweden, initiatives have been taken to reduce between-hospital differences in the quality of stroke services. We have explored to what extent hospital type (university, specialized nonuniversity, or community hospital) influences hospital performance. METHODS Riksstroke collects clinical data during hospital stay (national coverage 94%). Fol...