Operation rooms are significant cost drivers in hospitals. This is because of the expensive resources that are directly involved in surgery, and the indirect impact that operating room activities have on related activities and resources throughout the hospital. Surgery planning on different levels and time scales are thus central planning problems with strong interactions with other planning pr...

During the Great Depression and World War II few new hospitals were built in the United States. A large number of communities had no hospital, and many existing hospitals were quickly becoming obsolete. In response, individual communities began to organize planning and fund-raising efforts to build hospitals. Community planning efforts became particularly important in 1946 with the passage of t...

A new or remodeled library presents a unique marketing opportunity for the hospital librarian. Furthermore, a well-designed library markets itself through its convenience, attractiveness, and ease of use. A marketing approach to library planning takes into account needs of users and of library staff and considers the librarian's relations with the architect as well as with hospital employees. T...

Objective. The hospital occupancy rate is a key metric in hospital capacity planning, despite the fact that this metric neglects economic efficiency and offers the abnormal incentive to artificially increase the length-of-stay with detrimental effect on medical and economic performance. We suggest a modification of the occupancy metric to alleviate these shortcomings. The resulting metric incor...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify risk factors associated with 30-day unplanned hospital readmissions in adults with cancer. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING A teaching hospital in an urban center in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. SAMPLE 302 adults with solid tumors. METHODS The Conceptual Model of Re-Hospitalization was used as a theoretic framework. Univariate logistic r...

OBJECTIVE To determine the disease pattern of 400 patients attending Nepal Eye Hospital for strategic planning. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective hospital based analysis of 400 cases visiting Retina Clinic of Nepal Eye Hospital (NEH) over a period of one year was carried out in order to know the disease pattern for planning purpose. RESULTS Males slightly outnumbered females (58% versus...

is a vice president of The Camden Group. Ms. Witt's expertise is in medical group and integrated delivery system development and management, including physician-hospital relationships, practice management, performance improvement, physician compensation, managed care, and strategic planning. is a senior vice president of The Camden Group. Ms. Jacobs's expertise is in the areas of physician-hosp...

INTRODUCTION At Singapore General Hospital, approximately 240 infants of the 1500 deliveries per annum are delivered preterm, many of very low birth weight-median of 1210 g-often have extended hospital stays, even after they are declared medically fit. METHODS To better understand the discharge patterns of the preterm infants in the department, a team of two neonatologists and two nurses perf...

Women with severe maternal morbidity represent an important group to target for increasing contraceptive uptake. Our objective was to explore the future fertility intentions, use of family planning including methods and reasons for not wanting to use contraception among a group of women who had traumatic delivery experience at a tertiary teaching hospital in Accra, Ghana. Our results show that ...