1. Introduction Among many other countries, Sweden is undergoing hospital restructuring by reducing the number of hospital beds and increasing the proportion of home healthcare. By moving the routine medical check and other healthcare services from hospital to the home environment, the limited hospital resources can be released to the people with urgent needs. Especially in the background of gl...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a new trend of business governance. Few research studies on CSR published in Taiwanese academia, especially for medical settings, we were interested in probing the relationship of CSR and financial performance in medical settings in Taiwan. The results illustrate that: (1) a time delay effect exists with a lag between CSR effort and its performan...

The delivery of cost-effective and quality hospital-based health care remains an important and ongoing challenge for the American health care industry. Despite numerous advances in medical procedures and technologies, a growing array of outpatient health care options, limits on inpatient reimbursements, and almost two decades of hospital contraction and consolidation, annual inpatient admission...

the main objective of this investigation was to achieve a clear pattern of solid waste collection and disposal in selected hospital and health care establishments in certain cities of tehran province. this study was done in more than 82 percent of all hospitals with 3017 beds during the year 1996. solid waste produced per bed was evaluated to be 2.87 kg per day which was 8670 kg per day, for al...

The rise of the for-profit hospital industry has opened a debate about the level of community benefits provided by non-profit hospitals. Do nonprofits provide enough community benefits to justify the community's commitment of resources to them, and the tax-exempt status they receive? If nonprofit hospitals convert to for-profit entities, would community benefits be lost in the transaction? This...

This article looks at key changes impacting on private hospital care: the increasing corporate ownership of private hospitals; the Commonwealth Government's support for private health; the significant increase in health fund membership; and the contracting arrangements between health funds and private hospitals. The changes highlight the often conflicting interests of hospitals, doctors, Govern...

Approximately 330 000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) occur annually in the United States; in essence, there are nearly 1000 OHCA events each day.1 However, despite the presence of extensive emergency medical response systems (especially in heavily populated regions) and aggressive steps by both professional organizations and private industry to enhance public awareness of the magnitude...

William C. Goodman Employment in hospitals is subject to influences that are not related to the business cycle and responds to the business cycle in an unusual way. The trends of employment in hospitals therefore contrast with those of total employment, especially during cyclical downturns. Apart from the effect of the business cycle, demographic and technological changes influence hospital job...

interactions between the Stanford University School of Medicine, the Stanford Hospital and Clinics, and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital with the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and hospital and research equipment and supplies industries (“industry”). Available at http://med.stanford.edu/coi/siip/. 3. Report on the activities of the Committee on Finance of the United States Senate du...

All rights reserved. The reproduction or use of this work in any form or in any information storage and retrieval system is forbidden without the express, written permission of the publisher. Printed in the USA. iii The Quality Measurement and Management Project (QMMP) is a hospital industry sponsored initiative to develop quality monitoring and management toots of choice for hospitals. iv QMMP...