OBJECTIVES We compared US and Canadian health administration costs using national medical care employment data for both countries. METHODS Data from census surveys on hospital, nursing home, and outpatient employment in the United States (1968 to 1993) and Canada (1971 and 1986) were analyzed. RESULTS Between 1968 and 1993, US medical care employment grew from 3.976 to 10.308 million full-t...

BACKGROUND To be successful, hospitals must increasingly collaborate with their medical staff. One strategic tool that plays an important role is the mission statement of hospitals. The goal of this research was to study the relationship between the fulfillment of administrative and professional obligations of hospitals on physicians' motivation to contribute to the mission of the hospital. Fur...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based decision making (EBDM) is an effective strategy for addressing population health needs. Assessing and reducing barriers to using EBDM in local health departments may improve practice and provide insight into disseminating EBDM principles among public health practitioners. COMMUNITY CONTEXT Administrative leaders at the Pueblo City-County Health Department, Pueblo, Co...

BACKGROUND Co-operation among staff of local government agencies is essential for good local health services system, especially in small communities. This study aims to explore possible informal relationship patterns among staff of local health and non-health organizations in the context of health decentralization in Thailand. METHODS Tambon Health Promoting Hospital (THPH) and Sub-district A...

BACKGROUND The South African Mental Health Care Act (the Act) No. 17 of 2002 stipulated that regional and district hospitals be designated to admit, observe and treat mental health care users (MHCUs) for 72 hours before they are transferred to a psychiatric hospital. METHODS Medical managers in 49 'designated' hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) were surveyed on infrastructure, staffing, adminis...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In-hospital stroke is associated with slower access to thrombolysis than community-occurring stroke. It has been suggested that lack of knowledge regarding appropriate stroke response among hospital staff may contribute to delays in referral, assessment, and treatment of in-hospital stroke. METHOD A survey was conducted among hospital ward staff members using the Stroke...

Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) is the provision of health services carried out by involving various professional professions and providing comprehensive services, in collaboration with patients, families, groups communities to provide quality services. This study aims analyze implementation effective communication on IPC Inpatient Installation Hasanuddin University Hospital. The type res...

burnout syndrome is a response to prolonged occupational stress. workload is one of the organizational risk factors of burnout. with regards to the topic, there are no data on administrative employees’ burnout and workload in iran. this study seeks to determine the levels of job burnout and their relationships with workload among administrative members of staff. two hundred and forty two admini...