BACKGROUND Nowadays, restriction on access and optimum use of resources is the main challenge of development in all organizations. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the technical efficiency and its factors, influencing hospitals of Tehran. METHODS This research was a descriptive-analytical and retrospective study conducted in 2014-2015. Fifty two hospitals with public, private...

Background: Attracting outstanding medical professionals contributes to the creation of a medical competitive advantage. This study attempts to compare private and non-profit proprietary hospitals in terms of the connection between hospital image and compensation/benefit system on organizational attractiveness. Methods: The questionnaire survey method was adopted in this study, with employees f...

The costing of hospital outputs, and especially of acute admitted patients categorised by DRG, has been the focus of considerable attention in the last decade. Many individual hospitals now routinely estimate the costs of their main products, several State and Territory health authorities undertake periodic multi-site studies, and there have been a few one-off national studies. This paper summa...

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In order to examine the relationship between the intention to stay on the job and job satisfaction among Japanese nurses, and to obtain clues for preventing turnover, we conducted a questionnaire survey. The subjects involved in the survey included 625 female nurses (registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and assistant nurses) working in 4 small and medium-sized private hospitals, excludi...

This paper studies the effects of quota-based labor regulations on firms in the context of Saudi Arabia’s Nitaqat program, which imposed quotas for Saudi hiring at private firms. I use a comprehensive firm-level administrative dataset and exploit kinks in hiring incentives generated by the quotas to estimate the effects of this policy. I find that the program increased native employment at subs...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to determine the rate of wound infection after clean surgical operations without using of prophylactic antibiotics and to investigate the relation between surgical wound infection with patient s age, sex, type of hospital, and the difference in surgeons. METHODS This study carried out in Sana'a city on 238 patients who underwent clean operations in two gover...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the incidences of caesarean sections in Latin American countries and correlate these with socioeconomic, demographic, and healthcare variables. DESIGN Descriptive and ecological study. SETTING 19 Latin American countries. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES National estimates of caesarean section rates in each country. RESULTS Seven countries had caesarean section rates below 1...

OBJECTIVE To determine (i) the cost issues which Saudi health care managers perceive to influence overall quality improvement initiatives, and (ii) the relationship between health care managers' satisfaction with such initiatives and their perceptions regarding the influence of different cost issues on the overall quality improvement initiatives. DESIGN Data were collected through a self-admi...