Background: Northwest Community Hospital NICU obtained Level III status in December 2010 and utilized their existing partnership with a tertiary level children’s hospital to perform bedside surgeries. Primary Objectives: The primary objective was to establish a team of professionals to collaborate on the process of performing PDA ligations at the bedside. Prior to this, babies were transferred ...

introduction: undesirable exploitation of natural resources, resource shortage and increased hospital costs has resulted in increase in the hospital expenditure over revenue or made costs scale heavier than the income scale. the present research has been done by the aim of studying the effect of combining hospital wards on current expenses of bou ali medical & teaching center by the means of in...

extract today home health care is implementing in many countries. in iran, because of increasing population growth and hospital investments, home health care is not avoidable. home health care not only causes decreasing length of hospitalization and rapid offloading of hospital's beds for the use of other patients, but also presenting direct health services in home based on individual need...

introduction: hospital managers, as one of the most important health care workers, are the subject of continuous education. in some countries around the world, health management education is an important part of health reforms. the aim of present research is to perform evidence-based studies based on assessing hospital managers’ needs. therefore, it should be considered that educational need as...

Introduction Our hospital is a tertiary 1000-bed hospital. In 2011, rapid response system (RRS) was introduced in the hospital. Our rapid response team (RRT) includes critical care physicians, critical care nurses and physical therapists. Usually, team members are working at ICU. They also provides respiratory care or critical care interventions to the patients in the wards, after discharged fr...

Introduction: The study was conducted to assess the school activity of thalassemic children and to reveal the relationship between school activity with the socio-demographic factors as well as clinico-therapeutic profile. Methods: A total of 365 admitted thalassemic patients of Burdwan Medical College (ages 5 to 12 years) were participated in this cross se...

 Abstract Background: Inappropriate prescription of vancomycin has been shown to be asso- ciated with induction of antibiotic resistance. The objective of this study was to deter- mine the incidence of inappropriate use of vancomycin in a tertiary care hospital in Iran. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional investigation was performed from September 2004 to March 2005 in all units of a general...

Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is an expensive medicine which is widely used for unlabeled indications. We conducted this drug utilization review (DUR) to evaluate the appropriateness of IVIG utilization in Tehran, Iran. This cross sectional study was conducted in a referral pediatric tertiary care hospital in Tehran. During a three month period in 2015, medical records of inpatients with IV...

BACKGROUND We conducted a study to evaluate the impact of education and an antibiotic-control program on antibiotic-prescribing practices, antibiotic consumption, antimicrobial resistance, and cost of antibiotics in a tertiary care hospital in Thailand. METHODS A study of the year before and the year after the intervention was performed. Inpatient antibiotic prescriptions were prospectively o...

BACKGROUND The actual incidence of anaphylaxis is unknown. Periodical study of the anaphylaxis in different countries will raise the awareness to improve further the prevention and care. METHODS To investigate anaphylaxis among inpatients in the previous decade, we conducted a retrospective study of adult patients between 1992 and 2001 at a tertiary care center in Bangkok. RESULTS Of 448,21...