BACKGROUND Health care has experimented with many different quality improvement (QI) approaches with greater variation in name than content. This has been dubbed pseudoinnovation. However, it could also be that the subtleties and differences are not clearly understood. To explore this further, the purpose of this study was to explore how hospital managers perceive lean in the context of QI. M...

BACKGROUND A survey was undertaken to assess surgical team members' attitudes to safety and teamwork in the operating theatre. METHOD The Operating Room Management Attitudes Questionnaire (ORMAQ) measures attitudes to leadership, teamwork, stress and fatigue and error. A version of the ORMAQ was distributed to surgical teams in 17 hospitals in Scotland. A total of 352 responses were analysed,...

background: drug use evaluation (due) aims at improving the patients’ care. studying the administration pattern of intravenous immunoglobulin (ivig) is an important research topic due to its significant role in the treatment and controlling of many disorders, high prices, and limited availability of this drug. methods: this observational cross-sectional study was conducted at shahid sadoughi ho...

1Department of Cardiology and the Heart Failure Clinic, University Hospital of Larissa, University of Thessaly School of Medicine, Larissa, Greece 2Nuclear Medicine Unit, Hellenic Airforce (HAF) and Veterans Administration (VA) General Hospital, Athens, Greece 3Department of Internal Medicine, Hellenic Airforce (HAF) and Veterans Administration (VA) General Hospital, Athens, Greece 4Department ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to analyze if there is a relationship between adherence to antipsychotic medication and rehospitalization for patients diagnosed with schizophrenia in Japan. METHODS Based on Japanese claims data, we constructed three patient groups based on their medication possession ratio (MPR). Controlling for potential confounders, a Cox proportional hazard model was e...

AMONG the fields of enquiry to which the minds ofmen turned in Restoration England, that of hospital administration was not to be the least important in its effects. The impetus towards studies of this sort was produced in part by the foundation in Paris by Louis XIV of the Hotel des Invalides in 1674. Even before the useful effects of the great hospital had been evaluated, Charles II had writt...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated that elevated admission and fasting glucose (FG) is associated with worse outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, the quantitative relationship between FG levels and in-hospital mortality in patients with AMI remains unknown. The aim of the study is to assess the prevalence of elevated FG levels in hospitalized Chinese ...

Cloud Computing provides facilities for storage, management, processing, and accessing information and other data stored in several system, platforms, applications etc . The above work represents the implementation of electronic hospital management system which enables date storage, update, retrieval, modification through cloud using the virtual private network which enhances the security of th...

S ubstantial intellectual and financial resources have been invested in the quest to reduce outcomes in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) through improved pharmacological and mechanical reperfusion therapies. By contrast, little emphasis has been placed on enhancing the medical systems whereby these treatments are delivered, especially as it relates to pre-hospital reperf...

We report on an approach for aiding and strengthening the MBA admissions process that was used at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Multiple regression models were used to make predictions of the academic performance of an applicant, if admitted to the MBA program. Applicants who were predicted to have a “substantial chance” of an inadequate academic performance were consider...