introduction: hospitals require a central monitoring and improve planning process in order to enhance patient care quality. regarding the current developments in health care systems, the question is which information system can support transformation of hospitals. this review article focuses on the capacity of enterprise resource planning (erp) systems for the transformation of hospitals. metho...

introduction: new organization’s success depends on the efficient use of human resources in this study, we aimed to estimate the staffing needs in hospitals of shiraz university of medical sciences (sums) according to model proposed by the ministry of health and medical education in 2012. method: this is a cross-sectional definitive study conducted in three general and six specialized sums hosp...

physical design of the emergency department (ed) has an important effect on its role and function. to date, no guidelines have been introduced to set the standards for the construction of eds in iran. in this study we aim to devise an easy-to-use tool based on the available literature and expert opinion for the quick and effective assessment of eds in regards to their physical design. for this ...

were a number of schemes which, while highly meritorious as hospital plans, were pre-eminently suited to large and middle-sized hospitals. The designs, the Jury say, exhibited wide variations of merit; a few in fact seemed quite devoid of merit, A number of otherwise interesting plans failed to command approval because the working, and especially the nursing units, were put together in a manner...

OBJECTIVES When a soccer stadium stampede occurred in Zimbabwe on 9 July 2000, the hospital disaster (medical emergency) plan failed. This report describes the use of the audit technique to change the hospital's disaster preparedness. METHOD A literature review was done to establish international standards of best practice in major medical incident response. The hospital disaster plan (major ...