introduction: hospital information systems (hiss) have positive effects on patients' treatment process and organizational function. therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the quality of services provided by such systems. the aim of this study was to assess and compare hiss in isfahan hospitals based on the delone and mclean model adjusted. methods: this was an applied, analytical-descriptive st...

Nationally, there is strong interest in measuring hospital performance in patient safety. The Leapfrog Group uses a survey, along with other data sources, to calculate patient safety scores for 2600 hospitals across the United States. Under this methodology, every hospital is assigned 1 of 5 letter grades (A, B, C, D, F) depending on how the hospital stands in safety performance relative to all...

Hospitals and health systems, whether general acute care hospitals or specialty-driven hospitals, are attempting to prosper in a unique time. This year, hospitals throughout the country will see increased reimbursement for hospital inpatient services, rather than decreased reimbursement. Many hospitals are examining a multitude of options for debt financing and a number of the nation's hospital...

The goal of this study was to assess hospital capacity for disaster preparedness within Nairobi County. This information would be valuable to institutional strategists to resolve weaknesses and reinforce strengths in hospital capacity hence ensure efficient and effective service delivery during disasters. Analytical cross-sectional research design was used. Indicator variables for capacity were...

Relative Efficiency, Scale Effect, and Scope Effect of Public Hospitals: Evidence from Australia Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by applying a stochastic-frontier multiproduct cost function. We use a flexible translog cost function to reduce the measurement errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main findin...

INTRODUCTION Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in Canada. While stroke care has improved dramatically over the last decade, outcomes following stroke among patients treated in rural hospitals have not yet been reported in Canada. OBJECTIVES To describe variation in 30-day post-stroke in-hospital mortality rates between rural and urban academic hospitals in Canada. We also examined ...

background and objectives: hospitals usually generate large amounts of hazardous waste. if not managed properly, hospital waste can pose threats to public safety and damage the environment. waste minimization is a waste management approach that focuses on reducing the amount and toxicity of hazardous wastes. this study pursues a two-fold purpose: 1) to gain insight into hospital waste minimizat...

BACKGROUND Rates of in-hospital death after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) have been studied in many regions of Canada as possible indicators of hospital-specific quality of care. This nationwide study examined observed and risk-adjusted death rates for 23 Canadian hospitals performing CABG. METHODS Hospital discharge data were obtained from the Canadian Institute for Health Informati...

Importance Few studies have analyzed contemporary data on outcomes at US teaching hospitals vs nonteaching hospitals. Objective To examine risk-adjusted outcomes for patients admitted to teaching vs nonteaching hospitals across a broad range of medical and surgical conditions. Design, Setting, and Participants Use of national Medicare data to compare mortality rates in US teaching and nonte...

OBJECTIVES This study compares the characteristics and performance of spine specialty hospitals versus other types of hospitals for inpatients with spinal diseases in South Korea. We also assessed the effect of the government's specialty hospital designation on hospital operating efficiency. SETTING We used data of 823 hospitals including 17 spine specialty hospitals in Korea. PARTICIPANTS ...