In this paper we illustrate the results and some unexpected issues of the HISS project, which was run between September 2003 and July 2004, under the financial support of HP. Students of Medicine, Nursing and Dietetics practising in the wards were trained to use handheld devices connected through a WLAN to record patients’ data. Besides learning this new technology and applying it for free acce...

BACKGROUND An unplanned ICU admission of an inpatient is a serious adverse event (SAE). So far, no in depth-study has been performed to systematically analyse the root causes of unplanned ICU-admissions. The primary aim of this study was to identify the healthcare worker-, organisational-, technical,- disease- and patient- related causes that contribute to acute unplanned ICU admissions from ge...

OBJECTIVE Hospital services are the most expensive component of modern health care systems and inappropriate hospital stay is one of the most important challenges facing hospitals in many countries. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of inappropriate hospital stay and investigate the related factors in Semnan city (Iran). METHODS In this study, the Iranian version of Approp...

BACKGROUND In the last decade (2001-2010) the Ministry of Health implemented two major inter-related reforms: a 'structural reform' to reduce the number of psychiatric beds and the 'Rehabilitation of the Mentally Disabled in the Community Law', which allocated funds for a variety of residential and vocational programs in the community for these patients. The objective of the present paper was t...

or almost impossible to find vacancies in Certified Institutions for low grade or troublesome defectives. Mental Hospitals and Public Assistance Institutions are unwillingly obliged to receive these cases. Local Authorities are well aware of the harm and hardships which ensue from the retention of this type of patient in Public Assistance Institutions. The Board of Control require that Mental D...

BACKGROUND Appropriate admissions and patients' length of stay are two of the most important indicators of efficient health care delivery in hospitals. Paying due attention to these indicators may lead to optimal use of hospital resources as well as provision of ambulatory services to a larger population of patients. The purpose of the current study is to quantify the rate of inappropriate hosp...

Hospital sanitary microbiology laboratories perform the sanitary inspection, especially in high-risk wards, control hospital flora contamination, which is often multiresistant, perform the periodic monitoring of staff at risk and the examination of persons outside the institution. Data on chemotherapy, germs and tested samples from a sanitary microbiology laboratory revealed specific issues. Th...

30 Efforts requiring banks to divulge information on their financial condition have a long history. In the early 1800s, some states required banks to file reports of condition with the governor or legislature, arguing the state was a shareholder in the banks and therefore entitled to the information (Robertson 1995). However, the reports contained only broad breakdowns of assets and liabilities...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how much of the variance in data on nurse evaluation of different aspects of hospital work can be attributed to individual, ward, department and hospital levels, and to discuss the implication of the findings on quality improvement strategies. DESIGN AND METHOD National survey data of work experiences were collected from hospital nurses working at 124 hospital wards i...

This is a retrospective study of the annual mortality that occurred in the Department of Surgery, Alor Setar Hospital, for the years 1995 to 1997. This study looks at the number of admissions to the surgical wards and categorizes the causes of death. The annual mortality rates were 2.60, 2.89 and 3.25 per hundred admissions for the year 1995, 1996 and 1997 respectively. Head injury was the lead...