BACKGROUND The purposes of this paper were to examine whether patient dumping has occurred under the National Health Insurance and to explore hospital administrators' attitudes toward the practice of patient dumping in Taiwan. METHODS The study subjects were administrators in general hospitals that were accredited by the Taiwan Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation as medical centers, re...

conclusions according to the present study, the potential barriers to the implementation of pacs in hospitals is the lack of knowledge of the managers and employees of the benefits of pacs system (80%). before the implementation of pacs systems in hospitals it must be considered necessary background to increase knowledge of the workers and managers in this regard, short-term in-service training...

BACKGROUND Hospital administrators play a key role in the effective management of surge capacity in disasters, but there is little information available about the characteristics required to manage this. OBJECTIVES In this study, we aimed to identify characteristics of hospital administrators that are important in the effective management of surge capacity in disasters. MATERIALS AND METHOD...

OBJECTIVES To explore the potential components of hospital workplace violence (HWPV) from the perspectives of hospital administrators and patients, and put forward corresponding strategies for its prevention and control. SETTING Using convenience sampling methods, 116 hospitals in 14 provinces of China were surveyed using a self-designed questionnaire. METHODS A cross-sectional study was us...

Although medical facilities restrict smoking inside, many people continue to smoke outside, creating problems with second-hand smoke, litter, fire risks, and negative role modeling. In 2005, Arkansas passed legislation prohibiting smoking on medical facility campuses. Hospital administrators (N=113) were surveyed pre- and post-implementation. Administrators reported more support and less diffic...

This study examined the leadership practices of a sample of network and hospital administrators in metropolitan Victoria, Australia. It was undertaken in the mid-1990s when the State Liberal-National (Coalition) Government in Victoria established Melbourne's metropolitan health care networks. I argue that leadership, and the process of leading, contributes significantly to the success of the ho...

introduction: managers, as the members of decision making team in hospitals, are required to understand economic issues in order to increase their knowledge, make better decisions making, and bring about economic growth in hospitals. thus by measuring the managers’ level of economic knowledge and understanding their weaknesses at this field, we can take an important step in line with this trans...