INTRODUCTION Despite thousands of years from creation of medical knowledge, it not much passes from founding the health care systems. Accreditation is an effective mechanism for performance evaluation, quality enhancement, and the safety of health care systems. This study was conducted to assess the results of emergency department (ED) accreditation in Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Tehran, Iran, ...

The branch of medicine to which Lady Hutton owed her main allegiance was psychiatry and this story of her life includes memories of her first post as a young Edinburgh graduate on the staffs of Larbert and the Edinburgh Royal Mental Hospital. Later she worked under Sir Frederick Mott and Dr. Edward Mapother at the Maudsley Hospital, and for 14 years she was medical officer to the Ellen Terry Ho...

a series of articles in The Hospital, written during 1959-60, and made available in book form in response to many requests received. It does not attempt to be a complete and comprehensive guide to the Act; the full text of every section and of every Regulation is not reproduced, reproductions of the Circulars are not included. It is intended to be read in conjunction with the Act itself, but as...

The objective of this study was to analyze the satisfaction of the users of a private hospital in terms of a number of attributes of the services in units. This exploratory, descriptive study used a quantitative approach and was developed in a private hospital in the city of São Paulo. The casuistry consisted of 71 users and data collection was performed during the period from March to August 2...

Facilities management (FM) usually is difficult and complicated work. The facility staffs usually use paper or information system to record the facilities maintenance work. However, it is not easy for facility staffs to refer the traditional 2D CAD-based information illustration in the facility maintenance. Moreover, the information of same facilities maintenance needs to repeat the record and ...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the relation between symptoms regularly reported by hospital personnel and exposure to anaesthetics. SETTING Personnel of 18 hospitals in Paris from 1987 to 1989. DESIGN An exposed group that included all operating theatre members except for doctors, and which was divided into three subgroups depending on the degree of exposure--exposure was measured by the frequency of...