background: hospital incident command system (hics) has been established with the mission of prevention, response, and recovery in hazards. regarding the key role of hospitals in medical management of events, the present study is aimed at investigating benefits, barriers, and limitations of applying hics in hospital. materials and methods: employing a review study, articles related to the afore...

introduction: hospitals require a central monitoring and improve planning process in order to enhance patient care quality. regarding the current developments in health care systems, the question is which information system can support transformation of hospitals. this review article focuses on the capacity of enterprise resource planning (erp) systems for the transformation of hospitals. metho...

Standard accounts of congressional behavior treat legislators as individuals whose actions are the result of the interaction of member-specific characteristics and institutional factors. However, members of Congress do not act alone but instead depend on professional staffers who are intimately involved in every aspect of the institution. In this paper, we use a novel dataset of comprehensive l...

The quality of financial analysts’ equity research is pivotal for an efficient capital market. This study investigates the quality of earnings forecasts and stock recommendations for initial public offerings (IPOs) in Germany. The empirical study includes 12,605 earnings forecasts and 6,209 stock recommendations of individual analysts for the time period from 1997 to 2004. The focus of this stu...

Recent financial woes in America have prompted a closer look at the relationship between the health of an economy and the decisions of its households. The Great Recession, in particular, was driven partly by mounting household debt and plummeting household spending. Now, while the rebounding savings rate has reversed a longstanding trend, it has weakened the economic recovery. In “Consumption a...

BACKGROUND Many of public hospitals in Japan have had a deficit for a long time. Japanese local governments have been encouraging public hospitals to use group purchasing of drugs to benefit from the economies of scale, and increase their bargaining power for obtaining discounts in drug purchasing, thus improving their financial situation. In this study, we empirically investigate whether or no...

background and purpose: this study aimed to manage medical errors before and after the implementation of accreditation in public, private, and social security hospitals of mazandaran, iran. materials and methods: this descriptive study has been done in 38 hospitals. data were collected through documents reviewed relating to 2013 and 2014. the paired t-test and friedman test were used by statist...