Introduction: proper geographical access to hospital medical facilities will increase people’s visits to receive non-emergency services and no delay in providing emergency services. This research aimed to determine the level of access to hospital medical facilities with Geographical Information System in Yazd in 2019. Methods: This research is descriptive and applied. The required data for ana...

While planning a new maternity teaching hospital, we encountered the problem of relating number of delivery rooms to expected case load. The flow of patients in the teaching and research sections of the hospital could be predicted on the basis of previous experience, but for an attached "sector unit" the problem was much more difficult. The unit was intended to serve a new function, and therefo...

Vital Signs Location: Boston, Mass. Type: Nonprofit teaching hospital, affiliated with Harvard Medical School and a member of the Partners HealthCare System, an integrated health care delivery system that includes Massachusetts General Hospital and other Boston-area facilities. Beds: 777 Distinction: Top 5 percent of more than 700 large hospitals (300+ beds) in the portion of patients who gave ...

It is difficult to measure medical staff workload and medical staff requirements in microbiology departments. A review of 14 job descriptions for consultant microbiologists showed that the number of hospital beds and the number of specimens are more reliable workload indices than the population figure. Ratios between beds or specimens and medical staff numbers may help to identify understaffed ...

One important consequence of this division was that in many areas the family doctor was not only dissociated from hospital practice, but was also deprived of all forms of diagnostic aid. This state of affairs is being remedied in most areas, but progress is slow. The reason for this tardy progress is not infrequently reluctance on the part of hospital technical departments to accept further com...

Some emergency admissions can be avoided if acute exacerbations of health problems are managed by emergency and urgent care services without resorting to admission to a hospital bed. In England, these services include hospitals, emergency ambulance, and a range of primary and community services. The aim was to identify whether characteristics of hospitals affect potentially avoidable emergency ...