OBJECTIVE The national guideline on oesophageal carcinoma's recommendation of a minimum number of 10 resections per year and the intervention of the Dutch Health Care Inspectorate have highlighted hospitals' 'need to score' on the public quality indicator for the annual number of oesophageal resections. To determine whether low-volume hospitals are inclined to adjust their numbers, we studied t...

Specialty hospitals, owned and operated by physicians with an expertise in a particular medical condition, offer the opportunity to design a utopian care environment for optimal delivery of care. In fact, the concept of specialty heart hospitals dates back to the mid-19th century in England, with the opening in 1857 of London’s National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and Paralysis. The inst...

Obj ect ive: To determine if permanent pacemaker implants (PPM) intervent ions and change of generator are more eficient in small hospitals. Design: A cost -effect ive analysis and ret rospect ive, cross-sect ional and observat ional study of diagnost ic related groups (DRG). Set t ing: The data was obtained from the nat ional Minimum Basic Data Set (MBDS) for the year 2007 provided by the Heal...

This comparative study has been focused on the prevalence of MRSA types and their antibiotic resistance in two tertiary care hospitals of Nepal. During November 2007 to June 2009, clinical samples from patients with nosocomial infection from two Nepali hospitals, Kathmandu Based Hospital (KBH) and Lalitpur Based Hospital (LBH) were cultured and antibiotic susceptibility tests done following sta...

Mike A. Laffan, Will Lester, James S. O’Donnell, Andrew Will, Robert Campbell Tait, Anne Goodeve, Carolyn M. Millarand David M. Keeling Centre for Haematology, Imperial College London, London, Department of Haematology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, National Centre for Coagulation Disorders, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, Royal Manchester Chil...

M. BISCEGLIA, C. FISHER1, S. SUSTER2, D.V. KAZAKOV3, K. COOPER4, M. MICHAL3 Department of Pathology, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy; 1 Department of Histopathology, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; 2 Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Hospitals, Columbus, OH, USA; 3 Department of Pathology, Medical Faculty Hospitals, Charles Univer...

BACKGROUND We evaluated historical trends in the Staphylococcus aureus infection rate, economic burden, and mortality in US hospitals from 1998 through 2003. METHODS The Nationwide Inpatient Sample was used to assess trends over time of S. aureus infection during 1998-2003. Historical trends were determined for 5 strata of hospital stays, including all inpatient stays, surgical procedure stay...