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Review of Financial Performance and Efficiency Resources Utilization of Hospitals: Lessons Learned From U.S. Hospitals
… performance and resource utilization of American hospitals. To compare performance, hospitals were categorized into independent, networks, and system hospitals, based on structure and characteristics. For the study acute care general hospitals in 100 largest cities in the United States are …
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An automated cleaning system for hospitals
Insufficient hygienic practices in Irish hospitals coupled with one of the highest number of reported cases of MRSA in Europe have highlighted the need for solutions to aid in the task of cleaning. This automated cleaning system consisted of two robots: a core robot developed separately with …
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Preventable Deaths at Acute Care Hospitals
Background Previous measurements of preventable death in hospital do not account for the uncertainty of preventability ratings. Objective To determine the proportion of deaths in hospital that a have high probability of being prevented with high quality care. Methods We created summaries for every …
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Emergency Contraception, Catholic Hospitals, and Rape
… The use of probabilism would allow Catholic hospitals to make practical moral decisions about EC, despite a lack of demonstrative proof. Further, the use of probabilism would allow for the inclusion of EC among the morally permissible treatment options for rape victims, thereby enabling …
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Financial planning and control in hospitals
… Planning and Control Systems operating in N.H.S. hospitals. I first became interested in this during the period 1949-1957 when I was employed in Theasurer' s Departments at both a Regional Hospital Board and a Hospital Management Committee. It was, of course, during these early years of the N.H.S. …
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Good risk assessment practice in hospitals
Risk assessment is essential to ensure safety in hospitals. However, hospitals have paid little attention to risk assessment. Several problems have already been identified in the literature about current risk assessment practice, such as inadequate risk assessment guidance and bias in risk scoring. …
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The IT Performance in Saudi Arabian Hospitals
… the level of implementation of IT in Saudi’s hospitals; to examine possible relationships between IT implementation and performance; to identify the challenges that Saudi’s hospitals face to implement and perform IT. To achieve these objectives, the research will employ various methods. These …
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Fire Scenario Development for South African Hospitals
… compromise effective fire safety management. Hospitals are uniquely vulnerable environments in which evacuation is complex, delayed, or, in many cases, impractical for the health of occupants. The day-to-day function of a hospital is complex, requiring the combined operation of many services, …
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Training Evaluation Practices in Large Illinois Hospitals
Participants who conducted results-focused evaluations (n=13) identified four major problems: inadequate evaluation skills, customer reluctance to participate, labor intensive, and problems tracking trainees. However, these problems did not prevent participants from conducting results-focused …
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An Image Analysis of Area Hospitals: Austin, Texas
This paper assesses the Austin area hospitals' images as held by the individual consumer and the relationships demographic factors have with the images. Four hundred households within the Austin telephone exchange were contacted, using random digit dialing, for telephone interviews based on a …
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Factors Associated with Asthma Readmissions in Children's Hospitals
… discharges for asthma from 21 children's hospitals, which included 7,848 children admitted at least once for asthma in 1996. Logistic regression was used to determine significant structure and process factors associated with asthma readmission. Adjusting for age, gender, race, and APR-DRG …
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Interprofessional working in hospitals: the case of Nepal
… this study. The fieldwork was conducted in three hospitals in Nepal by using a semi-structured interview schedule. Purposive sampling was used and, altogether, thirty-eight health care professionals participated in the research. The study suggests that interprofessional working is widely …
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The Nebraska Methodist Hospitals Eugene C. Eppley Complex
… Center as a division of the Nebraska Methodist Hospitals. This complementary institution is utilizing the former hospital facilities which became vacant when the Hospital moved into a new building in west Omaha. Chance plays an important part in the history of an enterprise, institution, or …
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