Background It has been discussed whether emergency departments (EDs) reduce hospital admissions or not, and if the high turnover of patients results in higher readmission rates. Region Zealand was one of the first regions in Denmark to establish EDs, where all the acute patients for the hospital should be received: Køge and Holbæk (no beds, doctors employed by and working only in the ED), Nykøb...

Several factors have been incriminated in the etiologies of critical incidents: shortages in organizing rules, anesthesia technique, patient environment, human factor, team work and communication. This is the third follow up report describing our performance during the last five years (2003-2008). The possible incriminating causes were identified with the objective of avoiding such eventualitie...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to test the data quality, test-retest reliability and hospital-level reliability of the Patient-Reported Incident in Hospital Instrument (PRIH-I). METHODS 13 incident questions were included in a national patient-experience survey in Norway during the spring of 2011. All questions and a composite incident index were assessed by calculating missing-it...

productivity of hospital beds: evaluation of inpatient bed days in the west azerbaijan selected hospitals     nabilu b [1] , mohebbi i [2] , alinezhad h [3]     received: 19 apr, 2012 accepted: 20 jun , 2012    abstract  background & aims: all over the world, healthcare systems are under intense pressure to improve their performance . the cost of healthcare is a critical issue for employers and...

A queueing system with relocation reflects the behavior of various service and production systems. We present an implementation software specifically designed for evaluating patient flow between inpatient wards in a hospital. Our has simple inputs evaluates metrics using either simulation or Markov chain model. implemented command-line Python-based interface, ensuring applies to different opera...

Eye-based domestic helper is proposed for helping patient self-sufficient in hospital circumstance. This kind of system will benefit for those patient who cannot move around, it especially happen to stroke patient who in the daily they just lay on the bed. They could not move around due to the body malfunction. The only information that still could be retrieved from user is eyes. In this resear...