Multiple hospital systems and the teaching hospital

Hospital medical staffing and vocational guidance: teaching hospital juniors' views.

measures aimed at bringing the hospital medical staffing structure into balance over the next 10 earss' This initiative has been endorsed by the Central Committee for Hospital Medical Services and the Hospital Junior StaffCommittee. If the proposals are agreed implementation will start on 1 January 1987 and will result in major changes to the junior hospital doctors' career structure. This stud...

SARS in Teaching Hospital, Taiwan

1886 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 10, No. 10, October 2004 study conducted on French blood donors from September to November 2000 showed low titers of WNV neutralizing antibodies in two donors originating from the Département du Var (6). However, to date, no clinical human cases have been reported in this area. WNV must be considered as a causative agent of meningitis, ...

Perspectives: a teaching hospital executive.

Tracking the patient journey by combining multiple hospital database systems.

With new national targets for patient flow in public hospitals designed to increase efficiencies in patient care and resource use, better knowledge of events affecting length of stay will support improved bed management and scheduling of procedures. This paper presents a case study involving the integration of material from each of three databases in operation at one tertiary hospital and demon...

A Multiple Hospital Study

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of urban hospitals in Texas using the Clinical Information Technology Assessment Tool, which measures a hospital’s level of automation based on physician interactions with the information system. After adjustment for potential confounders, we examined whether greater automation of hospital information was associated with reduced rates of inpatient m...