BMC Health Services ResearchBackground Healthcare staff deliver patient care in emotionally charged settings and experience a wide range of emotions as part of their work. These emotions and emotional contexts can impact the quality and safety of care.
Raabia Sattar +6 more
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Efficiency of Hospitals in the Czech Republic [PDF]
The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001-2008 using Stochastic Frontier Analysis. We estimate a baseline model and also a model accounting for various inefficiency determinants.
Jana Procházková, Lenka Šťastná
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Barriers to Entering Medical Specialties [PDF]
Non-primary care physicians earn considerably more than primary care physicians in the United States. I examine a number of explanations for the persistent high rates of return to medical specialization and conclude that barriers to entry may be creating
Sean Nicholson
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A multicenter study on the appropriateness of hospitalization in obstetric wards: application of Obstetric Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (Obstetric AEP). Studio multicentrico sul protocollo di revisione dell’uso dell’ospedale in ostetricia: applicazione dello PRotocollo dell’Uso dell’Ospedale in Ostetricia (PRUO ostetrico) [PDF]
, 2014 Objectives This study has been based on the implementation of the Obstetric Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol in 7 Italian hospitals to determine inappropriate hospital admissions and days of stay. Design A cross-sectional study.
MANNOCCI, ALICE
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Purple Haze: An unusual cause of cavitating pneumonia
Clinical Infection in Practice, 2022 A 40-year-old man, recently recalled to prison, was referred to hospital after presenting to the prison infirmary with right sided chest pain, fever, weight loss and haemoptysis.The initial presentation raised suspicion of Tuberculosis prompting referral
Phillipa Jane Burns +3 more
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BMC Cancer, 2017 Background To assess the feasibility and potential impact on target delineation of respiratory-gated (4D) contrast-enhanced 18Fluorine fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography - computed tomography (PET-CT), in the treatment planning ...
Andrew Scarsbrook +7 more
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HMO Penetration, Ownership Status, and the Rise of Hospital Advertising [PDF]
We examine the recent increase in hospital advertising expenditures. We first illustrate that the rise in hospital advertising has not been universal. Large, not-for-profit, teaching hospitals have, by far, experienced the largest increase in spending ...
Jason R. Barro, Michael Chu
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in the Selected Teaching Hospitals Affiliated with Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd [PDF]
, 2016 The Relationship between Spiritual Leadership and Employee Involvement in the Selected Teaching Hospitals Affiliated with Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd Milad Shafii1, Alireza Dehghan Muriabadi2, Roohollah Askari1, Khatere ...
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The Relationship between Organizational Intelligence and Organizational Agility in Teaching Hospitals of Yazd Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences [PDF]
, 2016 The Relationship between Organizational Intelligence and Organizational Agility in Teaching Hospitals of Yazd Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences Kiani MohammadMehdi1, Bahrami Mohammad Amin2*, Montazeralfaraj Raziyeh3, Falah Zadeh ...
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Hospital Language Services for Patients with Limited English Proficiency: Results From a National Survey [PDF]
, 2006 Describes current practices, common barriers, and the specific resources and tools needed to provide language services to patients with limited English proficiency.
Cynthia Hedges Greising +4 more
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