BACKGROUND Turkey initiated the 'Health Transformation Programme' (HTP) in 2003 to align its health care system with the European Union and OECD countries. This study investigates the impact of these reforms on the efficiency of public hospitals. Our study would contribute to the existing literature with a comprehensive analysis of the health system in a developing country. METHODS We employ ...

There is considerable public, political and professional debate about the need for additional hospital beds in Australia. However, there is no clarity in regard to the definition, meaning and significance of hospital bed counts. Relative to population, there has been a total decline in bed availability in Australia over the past 15 years of 14.6% (22.9% for public hospital beds). This decline i...

OBJECTIVE To describe the development and activity of a multidisciplinary service to manage self-poisoning. DESIGN Descriptive, comparative study with prospective data collection. SETTING Regional toxicology treatment centre in the Hunter area of New South Wales (NSW) with primary and secondary referral service to 385,000 people and tertiary referral service to a further 100,000. PATIENTS...

introduction : indicators are regarded as tools of evaluating different situations in all systems. hospitals as a part of health systems are not an exception. they should also be evaluated based on different views, the main aim of this study was to determine the rate of utilization of hospital resources in isfahan province. methods : this is a descriptive, trend study which was carried out in i...

background: person-organization fit is an effective factor for recruiting, selection, and retention of human resources in organizations. objective: this study examined the correlation between person-organization fit and performance indicators used in healthcare in the hospitals affiliated with qazvin university of medical sciences (qums). methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was cond...

OBJECTIVE Assessment of the knowledge and application as well as perceived utility by doctors of clinical governance tools in order to explore their impact on clinical units' performance measured through mortality rates and efficiency indicators. METHODS This research is a cross-sectional study with a deterministic record-linkage procedure. The sample includes n = 1250 doctors (n = 249 chiefs...

background and objectives: the large contribution of hospitals to the function and expenditures of the healthsector makes their constant monitoring and evaluation inevitable to improve the overall performance of the health system. built on that, the present study aimed to evaluate the trend of performance of hospitals affiliated with the public hospitals (in guilan province, iran) affiliated wi...

Background: Person-organization fit is an effective factor for recruiting, selection, and retention of human resources in organizations. Objective: This study examined the correlation between person-organization fit and performance indicators used in healthcare in the hospitals affiliated with Qazvin University of Medical Sciences (QUMS). Me...

Statistics are presented on the utilization of short-stay hospitals based on data collected in the Hospital Discharge Survey from a national sample of hospital records of discharged patients. Discharges, days of care, and average length of stay are distributed by each of the variables age, sex, and color of patient and by geographic region, bed size, and type of ownership (control) of hospital....