Background Although preventable, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) continue to pose huge health and economic burdens on countries worldwide. Some studies have indicated the numerous causes of HAIs, but only a tiny literature exists on the multifaceted measures that can be used to address the problem. This paper presents stakeholders’ opinions on measures for controlling HAIs in Iran.   M...

Stakeholders in e-health such as governance officials, health IT-implementers and vendors have to co-operate to achieve the goal of a future-proof interoperable e-health infrastructure. Co-operation requires knowledge on the responsibility and competences of stakeholder groups. To increase awareness on clinical modeling and standardization we conducted a workshop for Danish and a few Norwegian ...

Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) are considered as a critical component for the operation of healthcare organizations. Successful adoption and diffusion of these systems require involvement and cooperation from stakeholders across different departments and business units. However, it is quite challenging to identify stakeholders in environments where interorganizational structure is very co...

BACKGROUND The development and use of core outcome sets (COSs) in trials may improve data synthesis and reduce outcome reporting bias. The selection of outcomes in COSs is informed by views of key stakeholders, yet little is known about the role and influence of different stakeholders' views during COS development. We report an exploratory case study examining how stakeholder selection and inco...

Previous studies on inferring the origin of routing changes in the Internet are limited to failure events that generate a large number of routing changes. In this paper, we present a novel approach to origin inference of small failure events. Our scheme focuses on routing changes imposed on preferred paths of prefixes and not on transient paths triggered by path exploration. We first infer the ...

BACKGROUND Computerized clinical decision support (CDS) can help hospitals to improve healthcare. However, CDS can be problematic. The purpose of this study was to discover how the views of clinical stakeholders, CDS content vendors, and EHR vendors are alike or different with respect to challenges in the development, management, and use of CDS. METHODS We conducted ethnographic fieldwork usi...

introduction: for some time now the field of medical education has been criticized by many of its stakeholders. countless debates have been presented in the literature regarding the quality of medical education research, adequacy of methodological rigor, and other concerns. methods: at present, the views expressed have largely come from physicians and individuals with less familiarity with educ...