BACKGROUND Hospital patient-to-nurse staffing ratios are associated with quality outcomes in adult patient populations but little is known about how these factors affect paediatric care. We examined the relationship between staffing ratios and all-cause readmission (within 14 days, 15-30 days) among children admitted for common medical and surgical conditions. METHODS We conducted an observat...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship between hospital patients' quality of care ratings and their experiences with health-related information exchanges and communication during hospitalization. DESIGN Cross-sectional multivariate dimensional analysis of data from a quality of care experience questionnaire of hospital patients comparing scores across three levels of reported satisfaction. SE...

Management of violent patients in hospitals is a vital concern that has generated a broad spectrum of research and suggestions. This has ranged from those who emphasized verbal approaches l -:\ to the assaultive patient to those who looked at the impact of the physical environment of the ward, overcrowding of patients, understaffing, or type of staffing. 7 Others described the usefulness of var...

69 | AUTHORS Jeffrey R. Van Blarcom, MD,1,2 Rajendu Srivastava, MD, FRCP(C), MPH,1 DayValena Colling,3 and Christopher G. Maloney, MD, PhD4,5e 1Department of Pediatrics and 5Division of Pediatric Inpatient Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah; and 2Division of Inpatient Medicine, 3Department of Information Systems, and 4Associate Chief Medical Offi cer, Primary ...

Objective To know the facilities and the difficulties of nurses in caring practice of hospitalized children's families in the light of Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring. Method It was used the descriptive qualitative approach. The data collection was conducted in three stages: presentation of theoretical content; engagement with families in the light of Watson's theory; and semi-structured i...

There is a need for a regional assessment of the frequency and diversity of MRSA to determine major circulating clones and the extent to which community and healthcare MRSA reservoirs have mixed. We conducted a prospective cohort study of inpatients in Orange County, California, systematically collecting clinical MRSA isolates from 30 hospitals, to assess MRSA diversity and distribution. All is...

A 15-item questionnaire was used to evaluate competency to consent to hospitalization in 30 adolescent psychiatric inpatients. For competency, 17 percent of the subjects met minimal clinical criteria, 30 percent met broad clinical criteria, and 37 percent satisfied legally oriented criteria. Only 22 percent of the adolescent subjects met combined clinical and legal criteria. When compared with ...