background and objectives: responsiveness is one of the hallmarks of high performance health systems. maintaining the responsiveness of health organizations at high level, require constant assessment of its situation as perceived by the patients. the accumulation of data on patients’ perception of health organizations’ responsiveness can help policy-makers in developing effective relevant strat...

background and objectives: military hospitals play a crucial role in delivery of healthcare services to patients during emergencies. despite that, limited studies have attempted to characterize factors affecting quality of work life in employees of military health settings. to contribute in filling this gap, this study explored employee occupational stress in a military hospital, situated in th...

Bacteria may encounter a very wide variety of conditions in nature. These include changes in salinity, temperature, pH, and the presence of antibacterial molecules that have evolved either to kill them or impede their growth. In response, some bacteria have evolved modifications of their membrane lipids that improve their survival. Among these are amino acyl derivatives of phosphatidylglycerol ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction rate of hospital managerial/clinical teams (HMCTs) including principles (chief executives), managers, supervisor pharmacists and head nurses from services presented by private sectors directing 10 pharmacy departments in hospitals affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.This study is an observational and descriptive stu...

BACKGROUND In order to assist health service planning, understanding factors that influence higher trauma treatment costs is essential. The majority of trauma costing research reports the cost of trauma from the perspective of the receiving hospital. There has been no comprehensive synthesis and little assessment of the drivers of cost variation, such as country, trauma, subgroups and methods. ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the location, staffing, clientele, safety product disbursement patterns, education provided and sustainability of safety resource centres (SRCs) in US children's hospitals. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was distributed to children's hospital-based SRC directors. Survey categories included: funding sources, customer base, items sold, items given free of charge, educati...

The following article is an interview with Patricia Davis, RN, BS, a technical information specialist at the National Cancer Institute. Davis graduated from Johns Hopkins Hospital as an RN in 1960. In the early 1960s, she worked at Alexandria Hospital in Virginia as a pediatric nurse and was in charge of the recovery room. Later in the 1960s, Davis was a stay-at-home mother and volunteered for ...

OBJECTIVES Phosphodiesterase (PDE) III inhibitor therapy is effective for treatment of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). Nevertheless, this drug is expensive than conventional inotropic agent dobutamine. We compared total medication costs of the patients treated with PDE III inhibitor amrinone therapy to that of the patients treated with conventional dobutamine therapy during initial ho...

To cite: Suzuki T, Tokuda Y. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2014-204789 DESCRIPTION A 76-year-old Japanese man with a 7-year history of systolic heart failure was referred to our hospital reporting of progressive dyspnoea on exertion for 3 months. Numerous tests performedat the previous cardiology hospital, including myocardial biopsy and coronar...

Background Nursing care is a major portion of routine hospital care, especially when compared to more ancillary services such as labs, drugs, radiology, and other diagnostic and therapeutic procedures performed by doctors at the hospital. Although the nursing profession had been developed in Malaysia since the 1900s, the current hospital billing system does not reflect what nurses provide for t...