The "one-size-fits-all" approach for radiology workstation design is not good enough anymore. While most of the picture archiving and communication system (PACS) vendors are racing to add more features to the radiology workstation, there is little interest in addressing the specific needs of other hospital departments. Significant delays in the availability of radiology reports are often caused...

BACKGROUND It was proposed that Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis differed from erythema multiforme majus by the pattern and localization of skin lesions. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the validity of this clinical separation. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTINGS Active survey from 1989 to 1995 of 1800 hospital departments in Europe. PATIENTS A total of 552 patients and 172...

OBJECTIVE To assess the nursing knowledge of acute pain management in a tertiary hospital. METHODS Three hundred closed-answer questionnaires were distributed in various hospital departments at King Khalid National Guard Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 2007. Three main topics were tested in the questionnaire; nursing opinion on patient self-report of pain as a main indicator of pain inten...

To assess the level of risk as perceived by hospital workers and experts in Health and Safety (H&S) referring to occupational hazards, as a contribution to the improvement of the work conditions. A cross sectional study using triangulation in one general hospital and an oncology one, in two capital Greek cities. 447 hospital professionals randomly stratified by hospital service: nursing, medica...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of depression and to evaluate the association of sociodemographic factors, as well as aspects of the work environment, with depression among resident doctors working in a training hospital in Istanbul. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in a teaching hospital which has 332 residents in Istanbul. The require...

BACKGROUND Most end-of-life decision-making studies have, until now, involved either the general population or newborn infants. OBJECTIVE To assess the frequency of end-of-life decisions preceding child death and the characteristics of the decision-making process in the Netherlands. METHODS Two studies were performed. The first was a death certificate study in which all 129 physicians repor...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether communication training for housestaff via role-playing exercises (1) is well-received and (2) improves patient experience scores in housestaff clinics. METHODS We conducted a pre-post study in which the housestaff for 3 adult hospital departments participated in communication trainingled by trained faculty in small groups . Sessions centered on a published 5-step s...

OBJECTIVE Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a well-known hereditary colorectal cancer-predisposing syndrome. Genetic testing for colorectal cancer risk is now part of standard medical practice, but very little is known about the economic impact of this technology. The aim of this study was to assess, from a healthcare system perspective, the direct costs of two strategies for screening at...

No other department influences the workload of a hospital more than the Department of Surgery and in particular, the activities in the operating room. These activities are governed by the master surgical schedule (MSS), which states which patient types receive surgery on which day. In this paper we describe an analytical approach to project the workload for downstream departments based on this ...

Michael Christopher, Christian Rantzau, Zhi-Ping Chen, Rodney Snow, Bruce Kemp, and Frank P. Alford Departments of Endocrinology and Diabetes and Medicine, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Fitzroy; Departments of Endocrinology and Diabetes and Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville; St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Fitzroy; and School of Exercise and Nutrition S...