This article studies factors that affect throughput times in a level 1 inner city emergency department (ED) in Chicago, USA. Previous research has shown increased throughput times are related to non-urgent patient use of the ED and lack of coordination of auxiliary hospital departments. Knowledge of these factors will allow for an improvement in patient flow and a reduction in wait times. This ...

We determined the prevalence of adverse drug events (ADEs) in a general teaching hospital in Rabat, Morocco. We performed a 5-day cross-sectional study of hospital departments recruiting inpatients and outpatients. Among the 1390 patients surveyed, 59 (4.2%) experienced at least 1 ADE and for 20 patients (1.4%) the ADE was responsible for hospitalization or prolongation of hospitalization. The ...

1 Laboratory for Clinical Pathology and Molecular Biology (Labo Lokeren – campus RIATOL), Antwerp, Belgium; 2 Departments of Gynecology and Oncology, The Middelheim Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium; 3 Departments of Gynecology and Oncology, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium; 4 Jan Palfijn Hospital and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium; 5 AMBIOR, Lab...

Priyanka Verma1, Varun Surya2, Sonali G Kadam3, H R Umarji4 1Post-graduate Student, Departments of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Government Dental College and Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 2Post-graduate Student, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Government Dental College and Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 3Professor, Departments of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Govern...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) , a new methodology based on linear programming concepts, provides an approach to evaluate the relative technical efficiency of nonprofit organizations which have multiple inputs and outputs. This approach potentially will identify inefficient units and the magnitude of the inefficiency to provide a basis to select inefficient units for management review or effic...

BACKGROUND The prevalence and consequences of musculoskeletal pain is considerable among healthcare workers, allegedly due to high physical work demands of healthcare work. Previous investigations have shown promising results of physical exercise for relieving pain among different occupational groups, but the question remains whether such physical exercise should be performed at the workplace o...

OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to describe the site of ambulatory care visits for gynecologic conditions in the United States and to identify patient factors associated with the site of care for these conditions. STUDY DESIGN We conducted a national cross-sectional study using data from the 1995-1996 National Ambulatory Medical Care and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys. ...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of how work demands vary between different practice areas could give us a better understanding of the factors that influence the working conditions in the health services, and could help identify specific work-related challenges and problems in the different practice areas. In turn, this may help politicians, and healthcare administrators and managers to develop healthy wor...

INTRODUCTION The application in clinical practice of evidence-based guidelines for the management of patients with severe sepsis/septic shock is still poor in the emergency department, while little data are available for patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of an in-hospital sepsis program on the adherence to evidence-based guideli...

1141 December 2014 W E are delighted that AnEsthEsiology is publishing this special Edition, highlighting research at the harvard-affiliated departments. harvard Medical school (hMs) is unusual, perhaps unique, in that it has approximately 10,000 faculty appointees, including many physicians with additional appointments at multiple affiliated and financially independent academic hospitals that ...