in recent year's significant attention has been given to the interference between individual’s family and work roles, which has been studied under the general rubric of work-family conflict (wfc). there are numerous interactions between nurses and customer’s organization in hospitals. therefore employee (nurses) have important role in quality of serving to customers. in this article invest...

How to cite this article: Tateke T, Woldie M, Ololo S. Determinants of patient satisfaction with outpatient health services at public and private hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Afr J Prm Health Care Fam Med. 2012;4(1), Art. #384, 11 pages. http://dx.doi. org/10.4102/phcfm.v4i1.384 Background: Patients have explicit desires or requests for services when they visit hospitals. However, inadeq...

In the present study we have analyzed the impact of modified MRSA screening of carriers and patients on epidemiological situation of MRSA during 2008-2010, comparing two regional hospitals with similar bed numbers and similar ward profiles in Northern Poland. In 2008 the proportion of MRSA to all S. aureus isolates was 14.4% resp. 6.0%, in 2009 8.3% resp. 4.7% and in 2010 6.5% in both hospitals...

A s Congress and the Clinton administration move into a new round of balanced-budget wrangling, Medicare .\m\ hospital costs will figure prominently in it. To be sure, the number targets for total Medicare savings are lower this year than they were in 1995, but they would hit hospitals particularly hard. Although many analysts predict another stalemate—or at least no agreement until after the N...

background: nursing is naturally a stressful job. stress in nurses can cause depression, isolation from patients, absence and decrease in their qualification. this study aimed to determine the causes of job stress in nurses of kashan, iran. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 189 nurses from kashan hospitals of different wards were studied. the information collection tool was ...

background: it is important to set up hospitals, since they play a key role in providing health care services based on the budget allocated to the health sector. objective:  this study evaluated factors militating against the establishment of hospitals in iran. it also emphasized the importance of health care services. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012 using a qualitativ...

introduction: the healthcare sector is one of the areas affected by information technology (it). due to the importance of it in hospitals and factors affecting its use, the present study was conducted to investigate the human factors affecting the use of it among managers of university hospitals in shiraz, iran. methods: this applied and analytic study was conducted in 2014 in 7 university hosp...

BACKGROUND While the majority of healthcare in the US is provided in community hospitals, the epidemiology and treatment of bloodstream infections in this setting is unknown. METHODS AND FINDINGS We undertook this multicenter, retrospective cohort study to 1) describe the epidemiology of bloodstream infections (BSI) in a network of community hospitals and 2) determine risk factors for inappro...

BACKGROUND Staphylococcus aureus is an important cause of infection, and brings additional concern with methicillin resistance. In addition, nasal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization rates among health care workers are higher than that for general population. To determine the prevalence rate and risk factors for the colonization of S. aureus, including MRSA, among ja...

INTRODUCTION Length of stay (LOS) in hospitals is the largest contributor of direct stroke care cost. Rehabilitation accounts for 16 percent of healthcare cost in the six-month post-stroke period. It is important to determine factors extending LOS in rehabilitation hospitals to identify focus areas of cost-control strategies. The aim of the study was to ascertain the predictors of LOS of post-s...