To the Editor: Despite substantial burden of skin disease in hospitalized patients and association leaving against medical advice (AMA) with worse outcomes, little is known regarding AMA among for dermatologic conditions.1Glasgow J.M. Vaughn-Sarrazin M. Kaboli P.J. Leaving (AMA): risk 30-day mortality hospital readmission.J Gen Intern Med. 2010; 25: 926-929Crossref PubMed Scopus (120) Google Sc...

introduction: emergency department performance index (epi) greatly influences the function of other hospital’s units and also patient satisfaction. recently, the iranian ministry of health has defined specific national epi containing five indexes. in the present study, the performance indexes of emergency department (ed) in one educational hospital has been assessed before and after establishme...

We strengthen the non-deterministic time hierarchy theorem of [5,15,18] to show that the lower bound holds against sublinear advice. More formally, we show that for any constants c and d such that 1 6 c < d, there is a language in NTIME(n) which is not in NTIME(n)/n. The best known earlier separation [8] could only handle o(log(n)) bits of advice in the lower bound. We generalize our hierarchy ...

introduction: patient/customer satisfaction and loyalty have gained increasing attention from executives across the healthcare industry. discharge against medical advice (dama) can be considered as one of the indicators of patient dissatisfaction. it has negative effects on patient treatment and leads to increased hospital costs. study of predictors of dama in a teaching hospital was the aim of...

introduction: discharge against medical advice (dama) can be an important indicator of patient dissatisfaction. this study examined the reasons for the dama in shafa hospital (kerman, iran). methods: this was a descriptive cross-sectional study within august 2010 to march 2011 on patients in this hospital. over 9295 inpatients were discharged, 483 had dama and were assigned 190 contacts and out...

• Objective: To examine the epidemiology of patients leaving against medical advice (AMA) and offer recommendations for delivering high-quality care. • Design: Case presentations and review of the litera-