introduction: to report the experience of the jordan university hospital with respect to the surgical treatment of otosclerosis and to compare results and complications with published studies.   materials and methods: the medical records of all patients who underwent stapes surgery for otosclerosis at the jordan university hospital during the period january 2003 to december 2010 were reviewed. ...

background:students are the main customers of the universities. thus, their perceptions and expectations of the educational quality is of great importance in planning for quality improvement. this study is aimed on evaluating the quality of clinical education in hospitals affiliated with kerman university of medical sciences. methods: this is a descriptive-analytical study. three hundred and th...

Objective: to identify and classify the most important occupational stressors affecting nursing professionals in the medical units within a hospital. Method: quantitative-qualitative, descriptive and prospective study performed with Delphi technique in the medical units of a general university hospital, with a sample of 30 nursing professionals. Results: the stressors were work overload, fr...

BACKGROUND In The Netherlands, health professionals have created a doctor-driven standardised system to report and analyse adverse outcomes (AO). The aim is to improve healthcare by learning from past experiences. The key elements of this system are (1) an unequivocal definition of an adverse outcome, (2) appropriate contextual information and (3) a three-dimensional hierarchical classification...

I was pleased to have been accepted to visit the Endourology and Stone Service at Barts by the director of the service, Mr. Noor Buchholz. This 1-month visit from June to July 2011 turned out to be one of my most valued professional experiences. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital is part of the Barts and The London NHS Trust, a tertiary university hospital trust caring for an often underprivileged popu...

Very little of WHO's work is done by the Organization alone. Much of it takes the form of coordination and collaboration in which WHO acts in partnership with governments, institutions-both governmental and nongovernmental-and individual scientists and other workers in the field of health. As the following article shows, collaboration with a university hospital department enriches both partners...

length of hospital stay (los) is a key indicator for hospital management. reducing hospital stay is a priority for all health systems. we aimed to determine the length of hospital stay following coronary artery bypass surgery (cabg) based on its clinical and non-clinical factors. a cross-sectional study of 649 consecutive patients who underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgery was conducted...

introduction: medical information is a major tool in planning, coordinating and evaluating the delivered healthcare. in addition, documentation of medical records is useful for legal, educational and research purposes, managerial planning and accreditation. the purpose of this study is to identify the reasons for incompleteness of medical records and the physicians and managers' views in this r...

The qualified specialist in internal medicine must maintain his knowledge at the level he reached when he specialized. This may be done by reading medical journals as well as regular attendance at his local hospital. Hence non-university hospitals have an important part to play in the continuing education of doctors, particularly since nowadays their facilities match the high standard of the do...

introduction: nowadays, medical equipment is essential to provide health care services in hospitals. since 20% of the hospitals costs are devoted to providing such equipment, an appropriate management is required to maintain it. in this study it is intended to investigate the maintenance management of medical equipment in hospitals. methods and materials: it is a cross-sectional study. the popu...