introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of morning and afternoon personality styles of the staff on an organization's psychological capital (optimism, resiliency, hope, and self-efficacy) based on fred luthans's model. we also assessed whether the relationship between personality type and psychological capital could affect the individual and organizational performance. m...

creating a safe of health care system requires the establishment of high reliability organizations (hro s ), which reduces errors, and increases the level of safety in hospitals. this model focuses on improving reliability through higher process design, building a culture of accreditation, and leveraging human factors. the present study intends to determine the readiness of hospitals for the es...

background satisfaction with health care is an important criterion and variable in assessing the quality of medical care. especially mother’s satisfaction from childbirth care procedure is a determinant factor in psychological and social health the study aimed to assess mothers’ satisfaction in terms of education and information provided by maternal care givers. material and methods a descripti...

S. G. Nour, S. Paul, J. O. Heidenreich, J. J. Derakhshan, F. Abdulkarim, M. E. Joseph, M. A. Griswold, and J. L. Duerk Radiology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, United States, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, Pathology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, United States, Cardiology Research Lab, University Hos...

OBJECTIVES Analyze changes that have occurred among U.S. hospitals over a 17-year period, 1975 through 1991, in the percentage of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to beta-lactam antibiotics and associated with nosocomial infections. DESIGN Retrospective review. The percentage of methicillin-resistant S aureus (MRSA) was defined as the number of S aureus isolates resistant to either methicillin...

i n troduction: around the world, a large number of projects have been developed with the aim of assessing patient satisfaction especially in hospitals. as an important indicator of the quality of health care system, patients’ perception of health care has been the center of attention over the recent 20 years. m e th od: 402 patients who were hospitalized in teaching hospitals affiliated to the...

C. A. Sage, W. Van Hecke, R. Peeters, J. Sijbers, W. Robberecht, J. Verhoeven, S. Deprez, P. Parizel, G. Marchal, A. Leemans, and S. Sunaert Radiology, University Hospitals of the Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Vision Lab, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium, Neurology, University Hospitals of the Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Pediatrics, University Hospit...

public hospitals can privatize management activities by contracting with a private organization or person to perform the work. management contract is a method which uses private sector for major government projects like hospitals. this review study evaluated management contract conditions in selected countries. we focused on services under contract, different forms of management contract, metho...

The aim of this study was to characterize methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates recovered from different infectious sites of hospitalized patients at two university hospitals. Fourteen isolates were analyzed by repetitive sequence based PCR (Rep-PCR), randomly amplified polymorphic DNA assay (RAPD-PCR), and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). We found that a prevalent...