OBJECTIVES To identify common risk types occurring in emergency departments (EDs). To compare the risks occurring between different emergency departments. DESIGN Application of a typology of risks to a database of critical incidents. Comparison of results of applying typology to group of critical incidents collected in a uniform manner in four different EDs. SETTING EDs in two teaching hosp...

An accurate knowledge of the existing pattern of clinical practice is essential for the proper assessment of therapy, the design of research, the planning of medical education, the efficient use of medical manpower and the design of and financial provision for new hospitals. In the field of anaesthesia the pattern of practice in large busy hospitals is most easily and accurately revealed by a s...

This is a collaborative study comparing the quality of life (QoL) and its predictors between outpatients of university teaching hospitals in southwest China and southern Thailand in terms of different domains of QoL as well as whether socio-economic variables affect the QoL of the two groups of patients to the same extent. Two hundred sixty-one and two hundred forty-eight randomly chosen outpat...

Over a five year period beginning in 1981, during which control measures were applied intermittently, the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates increased steadily within a twin site general hospital. A retrospective chart review of 154 patients identified in 1984-1985 showed that the MRSA 'definitely' contributed to three deaths (2%) and 'probably' contributed...

Surgical histopathology is learnt principally by the practical experience of reporting routine cases. This study performed a quantitative audit of the types of specimens reported by trainees at a teaching hospital and a district general hospital. At the teaching hospital all cases are seen by trainees and it was predicted that the distribution of specimens among trainees would be entirely rando...

At the time of publication of the first issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia in July 1923, there were not many whole-time anaesthetists in this country, and these were confined to university teaching hospitals. Blomfield (1922) stated that there were 27 specialists at 12 teaching hospitals in London, and a similar situation existed in the provinces. In the peripheral hospitals, anaesthes...

PROBLEM Medication management in the NHS has been highlighted by the UK Department of Health as an area for improvement. Pharmacist participation on post-take (post-admission) ward rounds was shown to reduce medication errors and reduced prescribing costs in the USA and in UK teaching hospitals, which can contribute to improved medication management. We sought to demonstrate the problem in our ...

introduction. despite the implementation of hospital autonomy in many developed (france, denmark) and developing countries(ghana, zimbabwe, kenya and indonesia) since the early 1980s , relatively little research has been directed towards evaluating the experiences of these hospitals .efficiency, equity, accountability and quality of care can be considered as four main evaluative criteria in ass...

introduction: the profits of executable referral system process are including: decrease the staff and equipment and saving in expenses and tools, appropriate division of sources for the best use of them and prevention of put patients to unreasonable expenses. in this course, the purpose of present study was to determine the effective factors on executable amount of referral system process in pu...

introduction: old methods of administrating cannot cover the rapid changes today. these changes redounded new organizations like learning organizations to be formed. the purpose of this research is to study of relationship between the learning organization and organizational commitment among hospital managers. methods: this is a descriptive analytic survey. the population of study was 210 nursi...