Acute haematogenous osteomyelitis is still a common disease in Cape Town. During the past eight years we have treated 331 cases (351 bones) in the University of Cape Town teaching hospitals; 85% of these were children of 12 years and under, the disease accounting for 3-3% of the admissions to our Children's hospital where we have set aside a special ward for patients suffering from osteomyeliti...

Complying with infection control standards is essential to prevent nosocomial infections. We aimed to determine health workers' hygiene practices and compliance with recommended instructions for personal hygiene among staff in all 30 hospitals affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. The results showed that physicians and nurses were less compliant with personal hygiene practices th...

BACKGROUND There is a significant increase and large variation in craniotomy costs. However, the causes of cost differences in craniotomies remain poorly understood. OBJECTIVE To examine the patient and hospital factors that underlie the cost variation in tumor craniotomies using 2 national databases: the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) and Vizient, Inc. (Irving, Texas). METHODS For 41 483 ...

Recent figures indicate that there are approximately 6,500 patients admitted to hospital following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in Ireland each year. As hospital admission is frequently the most expensive component of healthcare we determined the costs associated with treatment of AMI in a teaching hospital. The costing evaluation was from the hospital perspective and the strategy used was...

THE ASSESSMENT OF PATIENTS' PERCEPTION AND SATISFACTION OF RADIOLOGY WAITING TIME IN UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI TEACHING HOSPITAL. 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 Nwobi IC, Luntsi G, Ahmadu MS, Nkubli FB, Kawu HD, Dauda F, Moi AS, 1 3 Abubakar GM, Tahir MB 1 Department of Medical Radiography College of Medical Sciences, University of Maiduguri, 2 Borno State, Radiology Department University of Maiduguri Teaching Ho...

introduction: undesirable exploitation of natural resources, resource shortage and increased hospital costs has resulted in increase in the hospital expenditure over revenue or made costs scale heavier than the income scale. the present research has been done by the aim of studying the effect of combining hospital wards on current expenses of bou ali medical & teaching center by the means of in...

BACKGROUND There is increasing pressure to optimize asthma treatment efficiency. It is possible that hospital characteristics influence such efficiency. OBJECTIVE To examine the association of selected hospital characteristics with cost and length of stay (LOS) among pediatric patients with asthma after adjusting for patient characteristics. DESIGN Secondary analysis of 1995 hospital discha...