1 Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia 2 Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, The University of California and the Benioff Children’s Hospital, CA, 94158, USA 3 Departments of Pediatrics and Neurosurgery, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, The University of California Children’s Hospital, CA 94143, USA 4 Departments of Paediatrics and Neurosurge...

Context: Information Management (IM) departments in hospitals provide IT services supporting patient care and administrative hospital functions. Complexity and impacts of IT failures are continuously increasing. Therefore, professional IM departments are necessary, even though their importance is commonly underestimated. Objective: Little is known about the organization and variety of IM depart...

Background and Objectives: The goal of current study is to evaluate the performance of hospitals and their departments. This manuscript aimed at estimation of the most productive scale size (MPSS), returns to scale (RTS), and benchmarking for inefficient hospitals and their departments. Methods: The radial and non-radial data envelopment analysis (DEA) ap...

OBJECTIVES To assess the uptake, usage and acceptability of TOXBASE, the National Poisons Information Service internet toxicology information service. METHODS An observational study of database usage, and a questionnaire of users were undertaken involving users of TOXBASE within the UK between August 1999, when the internet site was launched, and May 2000. The main outcome measures were numbe...

CONTEXT A top-down evaluation of the costs of operating rooms (ORs) is not commonly done because it is relevant mostly in a publicly funded system. OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to determine the costs and utilization of ORs in a public hospital in Trinidad, West Indies, for two one-year periods using a top-down model. DESIGN Quantitative observational study.Main Outcome Measures: A "co...

OBJECTIVES Patient-reported experience measures are increasingly being used to routinely monitor the quality of care. With the increasing attention on such measures, hospital managers seek ways to systematically improve patient experience across hospital departments, in particular where outcomes are used for public reporting or reimbursement. However, it is currently unclear whether hospitals w...

Russia's national healthcare system is undergoing significant changes. Those changes which affect healthcare financing are particularly vital. As has often been the case in other nations, the emergency care field is at the forefront of such reforms. The ongoing challenges constitute the environment in which the hospital-based specialty of emergency medicine needs to develop as part of a larger ...

Modern technologies allow to access to more and more detailed information on human interactions. In this context, the SocioPatterns collaboration has allowed to develop an infrastructure based on radio-identi cation devices, that records human proximity patterns at a ne grained resolution, among voluntary individuals. This infrastructure has been deployed in diverse contexts, such as scienti c ...