Predicting Future Staffing Needs at Teaching Hospitals

Predicting future staffing needs at teaching hospitals: use of an analytical program with multiple variables.

OBJECTIVE To develop a model to predict future staffing for the surgery service at a teaching hospital. SETTING Tertiary hospital. INTERVENTIONS A computer model with potential future variables was constructed. Some of the variables were distribution of resident staff, fellows, and physician extenders; salary/wages; work hours; educational value of rotations; work units, inpatient wards, an...

Future capital needs of community hospitals.

Educational Needs of Medical Records Practitioners in Isfahan Teaching Hospitals

Introduction: Need assessment through testing the staff's skills and knowledge reveals the gap between the present and optimal situation and helps prioritize job needs. Educational need assessment is an essential step in developing educational programs and improving human resources' skills and knowledge. So this research was done to determine educational needs of medical records practitioners' ...

Hospitals with higher nurse staffing had lower odds of readmissions penalties than hospitals with lower staffing.

The Affordable Care Act's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) penalizes hospitals based on excess readmission rates among Medicare beneficiaries. The aim of the program is to reduce readmissions while aligning hospitals' financial incentives with payers' and patients' quality goals. Many evidence-based interventions that reduce readmissions, such as discharge preparation, care coordi...

Nursing and midwife staffing needs in maternity wards in Burkina Faso referral hospitals

BACKGROUND In 2006, Burkina Faso set up a policy to subsidize the cost of obstetric and neonatal emergency care. This policy has undoubtedly increased attendance at all levels of the health pyramid. The aim of this study was to measure the capacity of referral hospitals' maternity services to cope with the demand for health services after the implementation of this policy. METHODS This study ...