Over the past 25 years, the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has changed its guidelines regarding religious/spiritual care of hospitalized patients to increase attention concerning this aspect of hospital-based care. Little empirical evidence assesses the extent to which hospitals relied on hospital chaplains as care providers during these years. This study inv...

BACKGROUND Hospitals serve millions of meals and snacks each year; however, hospital food is often unhealthy. Hospitals are ideal settings for modeling healthy eating, but few programs have sought to improve nutrition in all venues where food is served. COMMUNITY CONTEXT The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene created the Healthy Hospital Food Initiative (HHFI) to improve th...

CONTEXT Infants born at very low birth weight (VLBW) require high levels of nursing intensity. The role of nursing in outcomes for these infants in the United States is not known. OBJECTIVE To examine the relationships between hospital recognition for nursing excellence (RNE) and VLBW infant outcomes. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Cohort study of 72,235 inborn VLBW infants weighing 501 to 1...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to analyze the variation in the rates of adverse events (AEs), and preventable AEs, between hospitals and hospital departments in order to investigate the room for improvement in reducing AEs at both levels. In addition, we explored the extent to which patient, department and hospital characteristics explain differences in the rates of AEs. DESIGN Str...

BACKGROUND This study aims to describe the distribution of the hospital pharmacy workforce in Brazil. METHODS Data were acquired, during 2016, through the Brazilian National Database of Healthcare Facilities (CNES). The following variables were extracted: hospital name, registry number, telephone, e-mail, state, type of institution, subtype, management nature, ownership, presence of research/...

BACKGROUND Repetition of hospital-treated self-poisoning and admission to psychiatric hospital are both common in individuals who self-poison. AIMS To evaluate efficacy of postcard intervention after 5 years. METHOD A randomised controlled trial of individuals who have self-poisoned: postcard intervention (eight in 12 months) plus treatment as usual v. treatment as usual. Our primary outcom...

The step out of mental hospital back into the community can he a major ordeal for many patients. To provide a halfway stage between hospital and full independence, the Birmingham and District Association for Mental Health recently opened a special short-stay hostel for ex-patients, which is described here by Julian Smithells. In many mental hospitals today there are patients who are ready to ta...

OBJECTIVE Indoor environment factors have been associated with risk of asthma exacerbations in children but little is known about their role on asthma hospital readmissions. As children in Western societies continually spend more time indoors, understanding the influence of these factors on asthma exacerbation is important. We examined the role of indoor environmental and lifestyle characterist...

Several comprehensive studies of hospital feeding have been planned to show as precisely as possible the nutritive value of representative diets provided in hospitals for patients and staff. The Scientific Advisory Committee of the Department of Health for Scotland has been carefully examining the problem of hospital diets and has made surveys and will publish a report in due course. The purpos...

conclusions the findings showed the moderate preparedness of the hospitals in the northern provinces to deal with disasters. case presentation this cross-sectional study was carried in 2011 and all of the hospitals which were located in the northern areas of iran were investigated through the census method. the data collection instruments were self-administered managers’ awareness questionnaire...