Biomechanical, postural and ergonomic aspects during real patient-assisting tasks performed by nurses using an electric versus a hydraulic hospital bed were observed. While there were no differences in the flexed postures the nurses adopted, longer performance times were recorded when electric beds were used. Subjective effort, force exertion and lumbar shear forces exceeding safety limits prov...

The Hospital Plan makes it clear that "very different considerations" from those obtaining in planning mental illness services "govern the provision required for the subnormal and severely subnormal" (p. 5). These considerations, however, have not led the planners to firm conclusions. All the factors mentioned as relevant in the Plan are assumed to "more or less offset one another" (p. 5). In 1...

Planning for mass gatherings involves health system preparedness based on an understanding of natural and technological hazards identified through prior risk assessment. We present the expected hazards reported by health administrators of the host cities for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and discuss the hazards considering minimal available public hospital beds in the 12 cities at the time ...

BACKGROUND Since most patients prefer out-of-hospital death, place of death can be considered an indicator of end-of-life care quality. The study of trends in place of death is necessary to examine causes of shifts, to evaluate efforts to alter place of death and develop future policies. This study aims to examine past trends and future projections of place of death. METHODS Analysis of death...

INTRODUCTION A devastating earthquake is inevitable in the long term and likely in the near future in Iran. The objective of the study was to assess the knowledge of hospital staff to disaster management system in hospital and to determine nonstructural safety assessment in Shahid Mohammadi hospital in Bandar Abbas city of Iran. This hospital is the main referral hospital in Hormozgan province ...

SEVERALLS Hospital has 1,825 beds, and fairly recently was divided into a geriatric unit, and five units consisting of two wards and two villas each, with a total of some 750 beds. In spite of repeated advertisements for trained psychiatric social workers over several years, no applications had been received. At the end of 1960 the hospital authorities decided to appoint untrained social worker...

BACKGROUND National Health Systems managers have been subject in recent years to considerable pressure to increase concentration and allow mergers. This pressure has been justified by a belief that larger hospitals lead to lower average costs and better clinical outcomes through the exploitation of economies of scale. In this context, the opportunity to measure scale efficiency is crucial to ad...

Results Of 32 ICU's, 19 completed the survey (59%), one was excluded as the hospital did not receive emergency admissions. The hospitals had a mean of 374 beds and the ICU's had a mean of 9.4 beds. Three hospitals had an invasive cardiology department. Seventeen departments (94%) had introduced TH; the first department introduced it in 2002. The number of patients treated with TH ranged between...

OBJECTIVE To identify where in England there are likely to be most constraints on choice of hospital for patients waiting longer than six months for elective care. DESIGN Cross sectional study using routinely collected data. SETTING Population of England and NHS trusts and private sector hospitals in England. PARTICIPANTS All residents in England. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Availability of b...