OBJECTIVES This report presents data on the availability of pediatric services, expertise, and supplies for treating pediatric emergencies in U.S. hospitals. METHODS Data in this report are from the Emergency Pediatric Services and Equipment Supplement (EPSES), a self-administered questionnaire added to the 2006 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS). NHAMCS samples nonfede...

introduction: pre-operative investigations for emergency surgical patients differ between centers. following established guidelines can reduce unnecessary investigation, cost of treatment and hospital stay. the present audit was carried out to evaluate the condition of doing pre-operative investigations for three common surgical emergencies compared to national institute for health and care exc...

Introduction: Today, patient satisfaction with the emergency services is considered as one of the main indices for the quality of hospital care service. The purpose of this study is to determine the rate of patient satisfaction referring to the emergency wards of hospitals affiliated to Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences (HUMS). Methods: This descriptive-analytic cross-sectional study was...

This study was conducted to compare the profile of patients attending the pediatric emergency services of a tertiary care teaching and referral hospital, Chandigarh, and a community level hospital in Ambala district, Haryana. Records of children (<or=12 years) attending emergency services over a period of one year; from 1st March 1999 to 28th February 2000, at both the health facilities were an...

BACKGROUND Timely access to emergency care can substantially reduce mortality. International benchmarks for access to emergency hospital care have been established to guide ambitions for universal health care by 2030. However, no Pan-African database of where hospitals are located exists; therefore, we aimed to complete a geocoded inventory of hospital services in Africa in relation to how popu...

hospital libraries are libraries for the use of patients and employees that are managed by hospitals or interested organizations. these libraries provide knowledge- based information services in the field of medical sciences and health. this paper note is based on library and descriptive method and reviewing the previous literature about hospital libraries was written in persian. so evaluation ...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction rate of hospital managerial/clinical teams (hmcts) including principles (chief executives), managers, supervisor pharmacists and head nurses from services presented by private sectors directing 10 pharmacy departments in hospitals affiliated to shahid beheshti university of medical sciences.this study is an observational and descriptive stu...

Acute stroke is one of the main causes of death and chronic disability. Thrombolysis with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator within the first hours after onset of symptoms is an effective therapeutic option for ischemic stroke. However, fewer than 2% to 7% of patients receive this treatment, primarily because most patients reach the hospital too late for the initiation of successful thera...