conclusions: since, there are few relevant studies in our country, recent studies on infectious diseases could be used for national planning and medical requirements’ preparation, it seems that periodical assessments of these diseases are mandatory. results: during the study, 4676 children, aged 1 month to 14 years were admitted and 29% (1357) of them were diagnosed with infectious disorders, 1...

This work examines admission control of the hospital Intensive Care Unit (ICU) which provides care for the most critically ill patients. We focus on how congestion can impact ICU admission decisions and ultimately patient outcomes and hospital costs. We first develop a stylized model for ICU admission that captures key trade-offs in allocating beds to patients with heterogeneous medical needs a...

Introduction: Delirium remains a commonly under recognised or misdiagnosed patient complication of admission to the ICU.

This work examines the process of admission to a hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU). ICUs currently lack systematic admission criteria, largely because the impact of ICU admission on patient outcomes has not been well quantified. This makes evaluating the performance of candidate admission strategies difficult. Using a large patientlevel dataset of over 190,000 hospitalizations across 15 hosp...

BACKGROUND The admission process of patients to a hospital is the starting point for inpatient services. In order to optimize the quality of the health services provision, one needs a good understanding of the patient admission workflow in a clinic. The aim of this study was to identify challenges and potential improvements in the admission process of spinal cord injury patients at a specialize...

Background: Appointment scheduling system is a critical component in controlling patients’ waiting time, so can increase the efficiency and timely access to health services. It is also an important determinant of patient satisfaction. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship of using a scheduling system and outpatients’ waiting time in a general teaching hospital in Tehran, Iran. M...

Background Children with cancer are in risk of malnutrition. Nutritional risk assessmentis more importance in developing countries. The aim of present study was to investigate the nutritional risk in admitted children with cancer. Materials and Methods One hundred admitted children newly diagnosed with cancer were studied at the time of admission, after 3 and 6 months.Demographic characteristic...

OBJECTIVE A variable percentage of patients admitted to surgical departments are not operated on for several reasons. Our goal is to check if surgeons have more problems in caring for non-operated hospitalized patients than operated ones. MATERIAL AND METHODS We included all patients aged ≥ 14 years discharged in 2010 from General Surgery, Gynaecology, Urology, and Otolaryngology. The main va...