The pandemic of a new coronavirus infection, COVID-19, has challenged the health systems virtually every country in world. Health care administrators had to make quick and effective decisions ensure high quality medical conditions. need form reserve bed fund during was due load on city hospitals Moscow. Due this fact, temporary for COVID-19 patients were organized non-core facilities - ice aren...

BACKGROUND Master facility lists (MFL) maintain an important standard (unique identifier) in country health information systems that will aid integration and interoperability of multiple health facility based data sources. However, this standard is not readily available in several low and middle income countries where reliable data is most needed for efficient planning. The World Health Organiz...

This discussion defines various research approaches undertaken in health care or health promotion settings, notably basic science research, translational research, comparative effectiveness research (CER), implementation sciences, and quality improvement. This discussion particularly clarifies the relationship between translational research implementation sciences, comparative effectiveness res...

BACKGROUND The purposes of this paper were to examine whether patient dumping has occurred under the National Health Insurance and to explore hospital administrators' attitudes toward the practice of patient dumping in Taiwan. METHODS The study subjects were administrators in general hospitals that were accredited by the Taiwan Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation as medical centers, re...

Despite numerous clinical efforts and regulatory mandates to reduce occurrence, pressure ulcers (PUs) continue to plague up to one fourth of patients in healthcare facilities. In 2003, staff and administrators of a 151-bed skilled nursing facility in the Midwest started a quality improvement project based on 1992 Agency for Health Care Policy and Research guidelines to reduce the incidence of f...