We analyse a huge and very precise trace of contact data collected during 6 months on the entire population of a rehabilitation hospital. We investigate the graph structure of the average daily contact network. Our main results are to unveil striking properties of this structure in the considered hospital, and to present a methodology that can be used for analysing any dynamic complex network w...

Though nursing education and training have been widely studied, how to encourage nursing staff to supervise nursing students receives relatively less attention. We aim to partially fill this gap by investigating factors affecting nursing staff’s willingness to supervise nursing students. Eleven factors on general qualification merits and seven factors on teaching merits and preferences are cons...

Introduction Improving quality of maternal care as well as patients' safety are two important issues in health-care service. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the culture of patient safety at maternity units. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted among staffs working at maternity units in seven hospitals of Ilam city, Iran. The staffs included in this study were gynecologists a...

BACKGROUND To identify factors influencing place of death among home palliative care patients with advanced cancer, focusing on the timing of referrals from hospital to home care settings. METHODS A cross-sectional nationwide questionnaire survey was conducted on home palliative care patients at 1000 randomly selected home care agencies in Japan. A total of 568 responses were analyzed (effect...

Background: The hospital management information system (HMIS) is a computer that processes entire health care business processes, including reporting and administrative procedures, to obtain quickly, precisely, accurately. Wonosari Regional Hospital type B has implemented the HMIS. This study aimed analyse HMIS use in Hospital, Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta.Methods: quantitative using cross sectional...

Every hospital has an organized medical staff, but of what value is this organizational construct in the current environment? Given the New World Order of quality improvement, patient safety, the malpractice crisis, and the multiple demands physicians struggle to accommodate on a daily basis, it is time to reconsider the role of the medical staff This article looks at the legal basis for the me...