BACKGROUND Timely thrombolytic therapy can improve stroke outcomes. Nevertheless, the ability of US hospitals to meet guidelines for intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) remains suboptimal. What is unclear is whether hospitals accurately perceive their rate of tPA "door-to-needle" (DTN) time within 60 minutes and how DTN rates compare across different hospitals. METHODS AND RESULTS ...

BACKGROUND Pay-for-performance is an increasingly popular approach to improving health care quality, and the US government will soon implement pay-for-performance in hospitals nationwide. Yet hospital capacity to perform (and improve performance) likely depends on local resources. In this study, we quantify the association between hospital performance and local economic and human resources, and...

evaluation of remedial services quality of hospitals by using servqual scale (case study: educating hospitals dependence to medicine university of yazd) ar rajabipoor meybodi , ma d farid , phd, t rajabipoor meybodi , bsc received: 16 aug, 2009 accepted: 25 oct, 2009 abstract: background & aims: patient is an essential axis in hospital and all services performed for him. his satisfaction and co...