Rap id growth of general hospital psychiatr ic units all over the world has piovided impetus to consultation-liaison work ca r r ied out by the psychiatrists in the non-psychiatr ic depar tments of general hospitals . Liaison psychiatry has acquired the status of a subspeciality within psychiatry and its development has paral le led the shift of psychiatry from men ta l hospitals to general hos...

BACKGROUND Iran developed a national hospital performance measurement program (HPMP) which has been implemented annually throughout its hospitals since 1997. However, little is known yet about its development and the impact of the program on hospital performance.This study aims to describe the development and process of implementation of the HPMP, and to explore the impact on hospital performan...

"And still manage to get it wrong," might be the rider added by many doctors. Criticisms of British hospitals are many and bitter. Some cannot be divorced from NHS politics. It is not due to policy alone that large sums of money were spent on teaching hospitals while patients in asylums lived in squalor, nor was it due to policy that elsewhere district general hospitals were postponed as their ...

OBJECTIVES Medical councils worldwide have outlined new standards for postgraduate medical education. This means that residency programmes will have to integrate modern educational views into the clinical workplace. Postgraduate medical education is often characterised as a process of learning from experience. However, empirical evidence regarding the learning processes of residents in the clin...

D-dimer is the biochemical gold standard for diagnosing a variety of thrombotic disorders, but result reporting is heterogeneous in clinical laboratories. A specific five-item questionnaire was developed to gain a clear picture of the current standardization of D-dimer test results. The questionnaire was opened online (December 24, 2014-February 10, 2015) on the platform "Google Drive (Google I...