A large portion of the casualties admitted to military hospitals on the battlefield in Iraq consists of children, of whom 13% had burns. The U.S. Army Combat Support Hospital (CSH) in Baghdad, faced with an influx of such patients, successfully transferred selected burned children by commercial airlines to the Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston, Massachusetts (SHC-B). The authors aimed to...

background and objectives: responsiveness is one of the hallmarks of high performance health systems. maintaining the responsiveness of health organizations at high level, require constant assessment of its situation as perceived by the patients. the accumulation of data on patients’ perception of health organizations’ responsiveness can help policy-makers in developing effective relevant strat...

A Giant Foreign Body due to Rocket Explosion Roket Patlamasına Bağlı Büyük Bir Yabancı Cisim Fatih Hikmet Candas1, Bulent Karslioglu2, Yusuf Emrah Eyi3, Onur Sildiroglu4 1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hakkari Military Hospital, Hakkari, Turkey 2Department of Orthopeadic Surgery, Hakkari Military Hospital, Hakkari, Turkey 3Department of Emergency Medicine, Hakkari Military Hospital, Hakkari, T...

1Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Gongli Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200135, China; 2Department of Neurology, Shanghai Gongli Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200135, China; 3Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai Gongli Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200135, China; 4Department of Central Laboratory, Sha...

1 Ophthalmology Department, Hakkari Military Hospital, Hakkari, Turkey. 2 Emergency Department Medicine, Hakkari Military Hospital, Hakkari, Turkey. 3 Ophthalmology Department, Kasımpasa Military Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. 4 Neurosurgery Department, GATA Haydarpasa Education Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. 5 Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey. Fundi...

background and objectives: patient readmission is an important criterion in performance evaluation of healthcare settings. identifying the causes of the readmissions would help the policymakers in designing strategies for efficient management of health facilities. this stud aimed to explore factors contributing to readmission by sampling from an iranian hospital. methods: clinical records of 38...

1Assistant Director of ICU at Naval and Veterans Hospital of Athens, Former Director of Intensive Care Unit (CS-ICU) of Joint Corps Armed Forces Cardiac Surgery Department, 401 General Military Hospital of Athens, Greece 2Consultant Cardiac Surgeon of Cardiac Surgery Department, Joint Corps Armed Forces Cardiac Surgery Department, 401 General Military Hospital of Athens, Greece 3Consultant Inte...

Background: Hospitals, the main providers of healthcare services, are costly centers which account for about 80% of the health sector budget and have a huge share of resources. Objective: This study aimed to analyze the economic performance of selected military hospitals in Tehran using hospital indicators and inpatient bed-day costs. Method...