background and objectives: during crisis, hospitals have great responsibility in saving life and protect health of the damaged individuals. fulfilling this responsibility relies on preparedness of hospital staff, particularly the clinicians to face the relevant challenges. given the lack of adequate information on the topic from iran, the present study aimed to explore the technical crisis prep...

Introduction: Hospital managers, as one of the most important health care workers, are the subject of continuous education. In some countries around the world, health management education is an important part of health reforms. The aim of present research is to perform evidence-based studies based on assessing hospital managers’ needs. Therefore, it should be considered that educational need as...

* Increasing demand on public hospital beds has led to what many see as a hospital bed crisis requiring substantial increases in bed numbers. By 2050, if current bed use trends persist and as the numbers of frail older patients rise exponentially, a 62% increase in hospital beds will be required to meet expected demand, at a cost almost equal to the entire current Australian healthcare budget. ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES High prevalence and poor control of asthma make its management a major public health issue worldwide, especially in developing countries. Optimum review of asthma management in the community is essential to improve asthma control. This study was conducted to investigate the quality of asthma management, knowledge about asthma and quality of life of asthma patients referr...

Jean-Louis Denis, Full Professor, École nationale d'administration publique G. Ross Baker, Full Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto Charlyn Black, Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia Ann Langley, Professor, Department of Management, HEC Montréal Bernard Lawless, Physician, St. Michael‘s Hospital, U...

BACKGROUND In Brazil, hospital childbirth care is available to all, but differences in access and quality of care result in inequalities of maternal health. The objective of this study is to assess the infrastructure and staffing of publicly financed labor and birth care in Brazil and its adequacy according to clinical and obstetric conditions potentially associated with obstetric emergencies. ...

Medicine management is at the core of hospital care and digitalization of prescribing and administration of medicines is often the focus of attention of health IT programs. This may be conveyed to the public in terms of the elimination of paper-based drug charts and increased readability of doctors' prescriptions. Based on analysis of documents about hospital medicines supply and use (including...