Introduction: Emergency medicine specialty has been established in Iran since 2001 due to the need to create a specialized field for responding to patients' vital needs.
Gholamreza Masoumi+3 more
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Cohort Turnover and Productivity: The July Phenomenon in Teaching Hospitals [PDF]
The impact of labor turnover on productivity has received a great deal of attention in the literature on organizations. We consider the impact of cohort turnover -- the simultaneous exit of a large number of experienced employees and a similarly sized ...
Jason Barro, Robert S. Huckman
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Implementation of laparoscopic hysterectomy for endometrial cancer over the past decade [PDF]
Background: Laparoscopic hysterectomy (LH) for the treatment of early-stage endometrial carcinoma/cancer (EC) has demonstrated to be safe in several randomized controlled trials. Yet, data on implementation of LH in clinical practice are limited.
Aa, M.A. (Maaike Anne)+14 more
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Effects of ownership, subsidization and teaching activities on hospital costs in Switzerland [PDF]
This paper explores the cost structure of Swiss hospitals, focusing on differences due to teaching activities and those across different ownership and subsidization types.
Massimo Filippini, Medhi Farsi
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Using 360-degree multi-source feedback to evaluate professionalism in surgery departments: an Iranian perspective [PDF]
Background: Medical professionalism helps physicians adopt a proper and good healing action for the patients based on their particular circumstance. This study was conducted to assess professionalism in surgical residents, using a 360-degree evaluation ...
Ahmadi Amoli, Hadi+6 more
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Finance versus costs for teaching hospitals in Spain [PDF]
In this paper we analyse the observed systematic differences in costs for teaching hospitals (THhenceforth) in Spain. Concern has been voiced regarding the existence of a bias in the financing of TH’s has been raised once prospective budgets are in the ...
Guillem López, Marc Sáez
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Hospital implementation of health information technology and quality of care: are they related? [PDF]
Recently, there has been considerable effort to promote the use of health information technology (HIT) in order to improve health care quality. However, relatively little is known about the extent to which HIT implementation is associated with hospital ...
Cohen, Alan B.+3 more
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Plain English summary Whilst Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) are widely regarded as critical to developing clinical research, there is a perception that older adults may not be able to contribute and there is less emphasis on gaining
Sally Fowler Davis+4 more
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Estimation of the Romanian hospitals efficiency in relation to hospital market competition [PDF]
The study examines a sample of 20 teaching and research Romanian hospitals, located in Bucharest, during the period 2001 – 2005, in terms of their efficiency and influence on their neighbouring health care units, expressed as an idiosyncratic form of ...
Mihaela Cornelia PREJMEREAN+1 more
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Obstacles and Challenges to Implementing Multi-departmental QI at a Large, Academic Training Center-Lessons Learned from a HCV Screening Program [PDF]
Objectives: We aimed to double the HCV screening rate of ‘baby-boomers’ admitted to the medicine teaching service at Methodist Hospital over the course of 6 months and demonstrate improved linkage to care for HCV RNA+ individuals. Initial efforts were a
Arastu, MD, S.+6 more
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