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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Hospital leadership"”.
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Patient Care Sitter Reduction and Fall Safety Improvement
… use of patient care sitters is well known among hospital leadership. Despite the high labor costs associated with direct and continuous observation, this intervention is routinely deployed by frontline care teams in an effort to preserve patients from harm, particularly from accidental falls. …
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Patient flow optimization in the Department of Medicine at MGH
… in the ED and ICUs, and increased overall hospital length-of-stay. This project studies General Medicine patient flow, develops and evaluates interventions to improve this flow, and provides recommendations to hospital leadership. To this end, we construct a discrete-event simulation based …
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The Courage to Change: Striving for Magnet Hospital Recognition
… importance to the effective functioning of the hospital. Leadership in the hospital setting requires innovativeness and courage. This means the passion to discover, create and experience the unknown. Until recently why some hospitals attract and retain good nurses while others do not was …
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Barriers and enablers to the emergence of distributed leadership in a Western Cape Government Health and Wellness district hospital
Distributed leadership has been proposed to offer value for health systems – by enabling people to work towards collective goals within settings such as hospitals. Yet, there is still lack of clarity about what distributed leadership is and how to nurture its development. To address these knowledge …
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Redefining active aging: critical insights from different living environments
… the opinions and experiences of front-line hospital workers and hospital leadership regarding sedentary time and social isolation in hospital settings. The data shed light on how an intervention to reduce sedentary time and social isolation aligns with hospital priorities and values, but …
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An Examination of Factors Affecting Non-Urgent Use of Emergency Department Services by Patients with "Universal" Healthcare
… health record system at several military hospitals, this study will present descriptive and inferential statistics on person-based ED and primary care utilization of spouses of active duty military. This study is important because a significant proportion of patients present to the ED with …
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A Test of the Behavioral Model of Health Services Use on Non-Emergent Emergency Department Use
… of this influence will allow policymakers, hospital leadership, and government officials to better determine a solution to non-emergent ED use.</p> <p>This study examines the influence of the constructs of the Aday-Andersen model on non-emergent ED utilization, as well as the influence of …
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Optimization of surgical supply inventory and kitting
… and soft good supplies for Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a 947-bed medical center. Custom surgical packs are used in every surgical case and delivered to the hospital by a vendor who manufactures them off site. These large packs contain unwrapped surgical items (drapes, gown, sutures, …
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The impact of a quality improvement complex intervention on the incidence of surgical site infection and the knowledge and attitudes of healthcare professionals
… post-operative complication that depletes hospital resources and has a detrimental impact on patient outcomes. There is published evidence to help healthcare professionals prevent SSIs, yet SSI prevention remains suboptimum and a complex problem to address. Implementing evidence-based …
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Leadership in Extreme Contexts: An Emerging Typology
… study investigates the relationship between leadership and extreme contexts through the lens of rural hospitals facing environmental jolts. Rural hospitals offer a unique setting for this research, given their inherent geographic isolation, lack of resources, and the critical role these …
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Exploring Structural Factors that Influence Black Maternal Morbidity: A Case Study of Illinois Hospitals
… (CDC, 2019) and 98% of births take place in a hospital, exploring the type of care delivered to patients is a critical element of getting to the root cause of SMM (MacDorman & Declercq, 2019). Research has shown that Black women are significantly more likely to have a severe maternal mortality …