BACKGROUND Palliative care is expanding rapidly in the United States. OBJECTIVE To examine variation in access to hospital palliative care. METHODS Data were obtained from the American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Surveys™ for Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013, the National Palliative Care Registry™, the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare, the American Census Bureau's American Community Survey (AC...

OBJECTIVE To examine, using nationally representative data, which patient, hospital, and county characteristics influence rural residents' urban hospitalization. METHODS Rural residents hospitalized in urban hospitals (crossovers) are compared with those hospitalized in rural hospitals (noncrossovers). National Hospital Discharge Survey data were merged with Area Resource File and Centers for...

OBJECTIVE To use a multilevel analysis methodology to evaluate hospital mortality from the data available in the Hospital Information System of the National Unified Health System. METHODS Cross-sectional study with data obtained from Authorization Forms for Hospital Admissions in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil in 2005. The modeling was performed using multilevel logistic regression, with variables...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. District hospitals (DHs) play a central role in district-based health systems, and their relation with vertical programmes is very important. Studies on the impact of vertical programmes on DHs are rare. This study aims to fill this gap. Its purpose is to analyse the interaction between the National Tuberculosi...

The application of sharia principles in business activities and services adds to standard compliance some them are trapped the legalistic formality aspect rather than improving ethics. In hospitals, which main is providing health services, applying may enhance added value or just a formal aspect. purpose this study seeks reveal community's response standards hospitals. used quantitative researc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES With the recent attention on quality of care and residency training, teaching hospitals are coming under greater scrutiny. Despite several studies, there is still no consensus on whether teaching hospitals deliver higher quality of care than nonteaching hospitals. METHODS This was a retrospective cross-sectional study, using national hospital data. The sample consist...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Despite national recognition for their breastfeeding-friendly practices, many New Hampshire hospitals are still not achieving the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. To increase achievement of the Ten Steps in New Hampshire's birthing hospitals, facilitate Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) designation for interested hospitals, and improve rates of in-hospital ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Hospital-acquired legionnaires' disease can be prevented by disinfection of hospital water systems. This study assessed the long-term efficacy of copper-silver ionization as a disinfection method in controlling Legionella in hospital water systems and reducing the incidence of hospital-acquired legionnaires' disease. A standardized, evidence-based approach to assist ho...