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...

assessing the preparedness rate againest earthquake risk in hospitals affiliated to urmia university of medical sciences 2011     hekmatkhah a [1] , rahimi h [2] , kamali aghdam m [3] , taghavi shahri sm [4] , sadeghifar j [5] , hamouzadeh p [6] *     received: 22 nov, 2011 accepted: 15 jan, 2012     abstract   background & aims : the necessity for providing appropriate services in hospitals du...

1 Master’s degree in medicine, FCMSCSP. Assisting physician at the Otorhinolaryngology Unit of the Municipal Public Servant’s Hospital (Hospital do Servidor Público Municipal). 2 Doctoral student, physician. 3 Otorhinolaryngologist, physician private office. Municipal Public Servant’s Hospital (Hospital do Servidor Público Municipal). Send correspondence to: Av. Paes de Barros 828 apto. 9 Mooca...

BACKGROUND In Chile, the use of costing systems in the public sector is limited. The Ministry of Health requires hospitals to manage themselves with the aim of decentralizing health care services and increasing their quality. However, self-management with a lack of accounting information is almost impossible. On the other hand, nutrition department costs have barely been studied before, and the...

Assistant Professor of Health Care Management and Policy, Department of Healthcare Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Mongan Institute of Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 Assistant Professor of Management and Organization Studies, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Manageme...

Background and Objectives: The reliability of hospital assessment results depends on the appropriateness of the indicators used. In this study, we systematically review the literature to identify the major indicators of hospital performance evaluation, as employed in performance assessment literature. Methods: Literature databases including PUBMED, Scopus, Science Direct, Google scholar, DOJA, ...

BACKGROUND With the recognition that public hospitals are often productively inefficient, reforms have taken place worldwide to increase their administrative autonomy and financial responsibility. Reforms in China have been some of the most radical: the government budget for public hospitals was fixed, and hospitals had to rely on charges to fill their financing gap. Accompanying these changes ...

introduction: diabetes mellitus is one of the most frequent causes of morbidities , mortalities and increasing cost of health care services all over the world. diabete’s clinical information system which is part of diabete’s information management system make it possible to manage this illness. this study aimed at comparing the diabetes clinical information systems in the u.s. , scotland and fi...