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Objectives: To improve patient safety, information regarding errors must be collected. This practice constitutes one of the strategies that hospital managers use to understand the types of errors that occur at their hospitals.
Naomi Akiyama +4 more
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Background Despite the growing prevalence of hospitalist programs in Canada, it is not clear what program features are deemed desirable by administrative and medical leaders who oversee them.
Vandad Yousefi, Elayne McIvor
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Design and introduction of a quality of life assessment and practice support system: perspectives from palliative care settings [PDF]
Background: Quality of life (QOL) assessment instruments, including patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient-reported experience measures (PREMs), are increasingly promoted as a means of enabling clinicians to enhance person-centered care.
Hilliard, Neil +10 more
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Reasons behind stymied public hospital governance reform in China.
BACKGROUND:The public hospital governance reform in China is pledged to improve the governance of public hospitals and deliver affordable and high-quality care. However, progress in public hospital reform has been slow.
Sheng Nong, Nengliang Aaron Yao
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REASONS OF CONFLICTS IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY
Objective: To assess the reasons of conflicts in tertiary care hospital Rawalpindi. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Tertiary care hospital Rawalpindi, from Aug 2008 to Jul 2009.
Tahir Sardar +3 more
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Can we measure hospital quality from physicians' choices? [PDF]
In this paper, we propose an alternative methodology for ranking hospitals based on the choices of Medical School graduates over hospital training vacancies. Our methodology is therefore a revealed preference approach.
Machado, Matilde P. +2 more
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Making the business case for an addiction medicine consult service: a qualitative analysis
Background As the drug poisoning crisis worsens in North America and opioid use disorder (OUD)-related hospital admissions increase, policymakers and hospital administrators are beginning to recognize the important role of hospitals in the OUD care ...
Kelsey C. Priest, Dennis McCarty
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BACKGROUND: The present study aimed to identify the administrators' and physicians' experiences and viewpoints about the factors affecting the length of stay (LOS) of COVID-19 patients and provide valid operational evidence.
Rouhollah Zaboli +6 more
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The Association Between Opioid-Related Industry Payments and Opioid Prescribing at the Individual and Ecological Level in Pennsylvania [PDF]
Objective: to understand how industry payments related to opioid products are associated with opioid prescribing in Pennsylvania. Methods: we merged the Open Payments data, Medicare Part D public use file, and Dartmouth Hospital Atlas of Health Care ...
George, PhD, MS, Brandon +2 more
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Background: Hospital planning requires effective management of resources, facilities, and costs, and accurate patient visit forecasting is integral to this process.
Ni Made Ratih Comala Dewi Dewi +3 more
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