INTRODUCTION Higher price of cardiovascular drugs is one of the reasons for high out-of-pocket expenditure in cardiovascular care. The objective of the study was to determine the price variation in commonly available cardiovascular drugs between public and private hospital pharmacies in Nepal. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 3 public and 3 private pharmacies in tertiary-leve...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of needle-stick injuries in female nurses of a public and private hospital and compare the findings. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at one public and one private tertiary care hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, from March to June 2015, and comprised female nurses who were selected using non-probability purposive sampling. A structured question...

from patients with myelodysplastic syndromes Verena Schildgen, Jessica Lüsebrink, Ramona Liza Tillmann, Michael Wulfert, Norbert Gattermann, Oliver Schildgen Institut für Pathologie, Klinken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Hospital of the Private University Witten ⁄ herdecke, Cologne, Germany. University Hospital Düsseldorf, Clinics for Hematology, Oncology, and Clinical Immunology, Düsseldorf, Germany. ...

IMPORTANCE Little is known about the geographic and hospital variations of the new medical technologies in Medicare. Even less is known about these variations for the privately insured. OBJECTIVE To examine geographic and hospital variations in the diffusion of drug eluting stents, comparing Medicare and privately insured populations. DESIGN Retrospective analyses of discharges from the Sta...

Public Private Partnerships (PPP) have been common in infrastructure for many years and are increasingly being considered as a means to finance, build, and manage hospitals. However, the growth of hospital PPPs in the past two decades has led to confusion about what sorts of contractual arrangements between public and private partners consititute a PPP, and what key differences distinguish publ...

BACKGROUND The principles of informed consent, confidentiality and privacy are often neglected during patient care in developing countries. We assessed the degree to which doctors in Lahore adhere to these principles during outpatient consultations. MATERIAL & METHOD The study was conducted at medical out-patient departments (OPDs) of two tertiary care hospitals (one public and one private ho...

Background and Objectives: Medical Tourism Tourism is emerging as a fast growing healthcare industry with the potential to open a new economic opportunity for developing countries. Iran has been the treatment destination of many medical tourists from Middle Eastern countries for many years, yet this field of services remains underdeveloped. The best judges for the challenges ...

introduction: hospital portals, as the first virtual entry, play an important role in connecting people with hospital and also presenting hospital virtual services. the main purpose of this article was to suggest a conceptual model to improve tehran private hospital portals. the suggested model can be used by all the health portals that are in the same circumstances and all the health portals w...