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...

Affiliation is a sectoral merger or partnership model in the health sector. It means integration among institutions. was introduced 2011 and implemented 2013 by public hospitals Türkiye. This study had two objectives: (1) addressing economic organizational changes performance affiliated (2) identifying its positive negative aspects practice. The adopted mixedmethod research design. Quantitative...

background and aims: burn injuries gives rise to mortality and long-term disability, and impose a high economic burden on patients, their families, and society.  thus, we investigated the direct hospitalization costs of the 388 burn patients admitted to the burn center of imam khomeini hospital in kermanshah province of iran. material and methods: this  retrospective study was conducted on all ...

This case study describes a collaborative project to reduce mercury in hospitals in Ecuador and Mexico and at the same time, to train environmental health and safety specialists and hospital staff on a process for reducing occupational and environmental hazards. The ultimate goal was to increase expertise in pollution prevention among hospital workers and enable hospitals to advance mercury red...

Policy Survey asked hospital executives in five countries— Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States—for their views of their nation’s health care system, the level and quality of their hospitals’ resources, and efforts to improve quality of care.U.K.executives expressed confidence that hospital waiting lists are improving from what they were two years ago.When a...

BACKGROUND Regionalization of adult critical care services may improve outcomes for critically ill patients. We sought to develop a framework for understanding clinician attitudes toward regionalization and potential barriers to developing a tiered, regionalized system of care in the United States. METHODS We performed a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews of critical care stak...

PURPOSE To assess variables of hospitals' organizational climates and nurses' intent to stay in intensive care units and wards. Also, this study aims at studying the relationship between hospital organizational climate and nurse intention to stay. METHODS A descriptive comparative design was used to collect the data from a convenience sample of 349 nurses who were working in 7 hospitals in Jo...