Background: Working conditions in hospitals may endanger physicians' health and impair patient care. For this reason, an instrument was developed in the form of a questionnaire, in order to record problems in physicians' working conditions and to suggest possible ways of improving them. Methods: A survey was performed with 571 hospital physicians. The questionnaire used is a shortened version o...

BACKGROUND Intensive care unit survivors often have diminished health-related quality of life. OBJECTIVES To describe health-related quality of life of former intensive care patients and identify associated factors 6 months after hospital discharge. METHODS Six months after discharge, 193 patients from an intensive care unit completed the Short Form-36 Health Survey; measures of sleep; Inte...

The aim was to assess whether temporal changes in the initial management for children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes over a ten year period affected metabolic control two years after diagnosis. A further aim was to investigate if social factors, registered at diagnosis, had an impact on metabolic control two years after diagnosis. During the years 1997-2006, 247 children and adolescents were di...

T. Waddell1, M. Verheij2, W. Allum3, D. Cunningham4, A. Cervantes5 & D. Arnold6* GI Clinical Trials Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, UK; Department of Radiation Oncology and Division of Biological Stress Response, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Surgery, Royal Marsden Hospital, London; Department of Medicine, Roya...

BACKGROUND Stress hyperglycemia is common in patients presenting at the emergency medical ward and is associated with poor prognosis and increased risk of mortality. AIMS AND OBJECTIVE To study and determine the prevalence and factors associated with stress hyperglycemia. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional observational study was performed on 536 nondiabetic patients presented to the I...

background and objectives: efficient hospital management requires appropriate cost and price strategies. informed decision on costs and prices of healthcare services needs estimation of costs of unit services using microeconomic techniques. there is lack of knowledge and skills for such costing methods in the healthcare sector of developing countries such as iran. this study aims at detail desc...

a bstract introduction:  admission of a family member to hospital would cause stress on other family members also. one of the most stressful treatment interventions imposing high level of  nxiety to the families of patients is when the patients are undergoing a surgery, especially a cardiac surgery. so, we decided to investigate whether recommended azkar could reduce stress, anxiety, and depres...

Hospital staff members reported increased stress-related workload when caring for inpatients with COVID-19 (“frontline hospital members”). Here, we tested if depression, anxiety, and stress were associated poor sleep lower general health, social support mediated these associations. Furthermore, compared current insomnia scores health normative data. A total of 321 full-time frontline (mean age:...