This article is based on sections of a paper entitled 'The Hospital Service-Today and Tomorrow' and on the introductory address when it was presented on May i9, i960, at the annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries. At a very early stage in planning the rebuilding of a hospital or department it is necessary for the staff who work in that hospital-the medical, nursing, technic...

introduction: using physiologic scoring systems for identifying high-risk patients for mortality has been considered recently. this study was designed to evaluate the values of acute physiology and chronic health evaluation ii (apache ii) and simplified acute physiologic score (saps ii) models in prediction of 1-month mortality of critically ill patients. methods: the present prospective cross ...

conclusions according to the results of this study, the stress level induced due to needle-stick exposure and its complications is high and interventions for reduction are essential. results the mean and standard deviation of stress experienced by nurses before and after the intervention were 64.94 ± 15.67 and 43.91 ± 10.73, respectively. findings indicated that education decrease needle stick ...

background this paper aims to investigate the development trend of traditional chinese medicine (tcm) hospitals in china and explore their medical service innovations, with special reference to the changing co-existence with western medicine (wm) at tcm hospitals.   methods quantitative data at macro level was collected from official databases of china health statistical yearbook and extracts o...

introduction: pain control is the most important issue in emergency department management of patients with femoral bone fractures. the present study aimed to compare the procedural features of ultrasonography and nerve stimulator guided femoral nerve block in this regard. method: in this randomized clinical trial, patients with proximal femoral fractures presenting to emergency department were ...

introduction: trauma due to accidents or fall from height is a major cause of disability and mortality. the present study was designed aiming to evaluate the baseline characteristics of fall from height victims presenting to emergency department (ed). methods: this prospective cross-sectional study evaluates the baseline characteristics of fall from height cases presenting to eds of three educa...

objective: to validate the triage ratings performed by the electronic triage system (ets) using hospitalization, length of stay, resource use, in-hospital mortality and patient bills as outcome measures. methods: in this retrospective cross-sectional study the medical records of 387 patients were reviewed in a one-week period. the data included triage category and the outcome measures were hosp...

introduction: in medical education, ambulatory medicine education especially emergency is the most important part of medical education. aim of this study is the survey of medial students information needs seeking behavior pattern. we expect this study impacts on the clinical education quality, the recognition of students' education needs and better management of patients by medical students. me...

a quasi experimental study was made to determine the effect of in-service education on knowledge, attitude and behavior for controlling hospital infections among nurses aids working in teaching hospitals supervised by the ministry of medical sciences and health care services (tehran,1994).   the sample consisted of 75 randomly selected nurses aids who answered the pre and post in service educat...