BACKGROUND Underreporting of errors in hospitals persists despite the claims of technology companies that electronic systems will facilitate reporting. This study builds on previous analyses to examine error reporting by nurses in hospitals using electronic media. PURPOSE This research asks whether the electronic media creates additional barriers to error reporting, and, if so, what practical...

A LESSER-KNOWN development in medicine in Great Britain was the opening in 1923 of Ruthin Castle, North Wales, the first private hospital for the investigation and treatment of obscure internal diseases. Apart from the inevitable publicity it evoked, and although the clinic acquired a wide reputation, it remained unadvertised except for a regular notice in the Quarterly Journal of Medicine. Thi...

Objective To assess the values and practices that characterize the organizational culture of a private hospital in the state of São Paulo in the perspective of nursing professionals. Methods Quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study. Data collection was conducted between January and March 2013 using the Brazilian Instrument for Assessing Organizational Culture. Twenty-one nurses and sixt...

The study aimed to assess the effects of a music therapy program on the level of stress for female professionals working in a private hospital in Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil. Thirty four female volunteers with 33.3 ± 8.5 years of age from different levels of professional participated in the study. We used the Lipp's inventory of symptoms of stress for adults (ISSL) to evaluate the level of stress...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of the types of relations to career - commitment and entrenchment - of nurses from public and private hospitals. METHODS Field survey with a quantitative approach. A total of 237 nurses participated in the survey through a questionnaire with 43 questions about sociodemographic data, occupation, and relation to career. Descriptive statistics, frequency ana...

BACKGROUND To determine whether training of providers participating in franchise clinic networks is associated with increased Family Planning service use among low-income urban families in Pakistan. METHODS The study uses 2001 survey data consisting of interviews with 1113 clinical and non-clinical providers working in public and private hospitals/clinics. Data analysis excludes non-clinical ...

BACKGROUND Highly competitive market in the private hospital industry has caused increasing pressure on them to provide services with higher quality. The aim of this study was to determine the different dimensions of the service quality in the private hospitals of Iran and evaluating the service quality from the patients' perspective. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted between Octo...

The private sector, and drug companies in particular, are beginning to play a much stronger and visible role in funding health care research in canada. The implications of this change were discussed at a recent conference.