INTRODUCTION Appropriate care for patients with tracheostomies in hospital settings is an important issue. Each year more than 7000 patients receive tracheostomies in Australia and New Zealand alone. Many of these tracheostomy patients commence their care in the intensive care unit (ICU) and once stabilised are then transferred to a general ward. Insufficient skills and experience of staff cari...

BACKGROUND Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at particular risk of acquiring pertussis and transmitting the infection to high-risk susceptible patients and colleagues. In this paper, the return on investment (ROI) of preventively vaccinating HCWs against pertussis to prevent nosocomial pertussis outbreaks is estimated using a hospital ward perspective, presuming an outbreak occurs once in 10 years....

Background: Because deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is one of the most common problems in the intensive care unit, it may lead to complecating the patient's general condition. This study aimed to investigate the predictive factors of DVT in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of Amin hospital in Isfahan. Methods: In this retrospective study, all the records of patients admitted to th...

introduction: length of stay is one of the most important and most practical indices used in hospitals today and presents the performance and efficiency of the hospitals. on the other hand, hierarchical analysis technique, one of the group decision making techniques, is utilized to determine priorities. therefore, this study was conducted to identify the factors affecting length of stay in alza...

BACKGROUND 2002 marked the first time that the rate of hospital spending in the United States out-paced the overall health care spending rate of growth since 1991. As hospital spending continues to grow and as reimbursement for hospital expenses has moved towards the prospective payment system, there is still increasing pressure to reduce costs. Hospitals have a major incentive to decrease reso...

Methods This is a retrospective study of ICU patients during 2013 at the Virgen de la Concha Hospital (Zamora, Spain). 445 patients admitted during the study period were identified as having a prolonged ICU stay defined as equal to, or greater than 10 days. Patients were evaluated following transfer from the ICU to the general ward until death or discharge. Epidemiological data, diagnosis at ad...

this is a mortality study in internal medicine wards of amir-alam hospital, since the beginning of 1374 to end of 1376. here, we reviewed, prevalence of disease lead to death, the ward and invasive interventions and duration of admission of patients before death. in this study, records of 85 patients were reviewed. 68.2% of patients were men and 31.8% women. mean of age was 61.6% with minimum o...

background infections in critical care unit are high, and they are serious hospital problems. infections acquired during the hospital stay are generally called nosocomial infections, initially known as infections arising after 48 h of hospital admission. the mostfrequent nosocomial infections (urinary, respiratory, gastroenteritis and blood stream infection) were common in patients at hospital....