INTRODUCTION Clinical education is one of the most important components of the resource generation function of health systems, and it has a very important role in graduates' competency with respect to effective, practical education. This study aimed to assess the quality of clinical services in Kerman's teaching hospitals located in southeastern Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was co...

BACKGROUND There is growing concern globally at the current flows of nurse migration, particularly from low-income to middle and high-income countries. Recruitment practices of many countries such as Ireland are thought to be fuelling this rate of migration. This paper aims to establish the perceptions and opinions of those involved in the recruitment process on their role in recruitment and th...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to collect and analyse examples of poor teamwork between junior doctors and nurses; identify the teamwork failures contributing to poor team function; and ascertain if particular teamwork failures are associated with higher levels of risk to patients. DESIGN Critical Incident Technique interviews were carried out with junior doctors and nurses. SETTING Two teachi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a combined intervention to reduce inappropriate hospital stays. DESIGN Quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test with a non-equivalent control group. SETTING Three teaching hospitals in the National Health System in Alicante, Spain. STUDY PARTICIPANTS Intervention group (2 Surgical Units with 1451 hospital stays) and control group (1 Surgical Unit wi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES With the recent attention on quality of care and residency training, teaching hospitals are coming under greater scrutiny. Despite several studies, there is still no consensus on whether teaching hospitals deliver higher quality of care than nonteaching hospitals. METHODS This was a retrospective cross-sectional study, using national hospital data. The sample consist...

OBJECTIVE To determine the availability of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and electronic medical record (EMR) systems in teaching and general hospitals in the Republic of Korea. DESIGN A combined mail and telephone survey of 283 hospitals. MEASUREMENTS The surveys assessed the availability of CPOE and EMRs in the hospitals, as well as inducement, participation, and saturation reg...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have investigated factors that are influential on the choice of training hospitals among residency physicians, but the effect of salary was not conclusive. In this study, we aimed to examine whether a higher salary attracted more residents to non-university hospitals participating in the Japanese Residency Matching Programme. METHODS Data on 475 hospitals/programme...

This paper explores the cost structure of Swiss hospitals, focusing on differences due to teaching activities and those related to ownership and subsidization types. A stochastic total cost frontier with a Cobb-Douglas functional form has been estimated for a panel of 148 general hospitals over the six-year period from 1998 to 2003. Inpatient cases adjusted by DRG cost weights and ambulatory re...

This study was conducted to analyze the quality of prescription writing of doctors in outpatient departments of paediatric teaching hospitals in Khartoum. This study is a descriptive cross- sectional, prospective, hospital based study. Nine hundred paediatric prescriptions collected from three paediatric teaching hospitals were analyzed. Three hundred prescriptions were also collected from doct...

BACKGROUND Workplace violence against female nurses is an increasing problem. In addition, recognition the rights of patients can reduce such violence against female nurses. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to investigate workplace violence against female nurses in respect with patients' bill of rights at two public hospitals of Ilam in 2012. METHODS In a descriptive cross-sectiona...