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The Relationship Of Patient Falls To Prevention Policies In Hospitals: A Case Study, Cornelia Branzan
The Relationship Of Patient Falls To Prevention Policies In Hospitals: A Case Study, Cornelia Branzan
Master in Public Administration Theses
There have been a lot of studies over the past decade on patient falls, risk factors, and strategies for preventing the falls. However, these studies provide answers for long term care; acute care and community hospitals need more specific interventions. Falls and their consequences are important for patients and families, health care providers, insurance companies, state agencies, hospital accreditation, and others. Furthermore, they are causing psychological and physiological injuries among the patients, take a greater time to recover, prolong hospitalization [15 days in Switzerland, Sweden, USA, Western Australia, Province of British Columbia and Quebec in Canada www.stopfalls.com )] and increase …
Baseline Evaluation Of The Dc Emergency Healthcare Coalition, Melissa A. Higdon, Peter Shin, Michael A. Stoto
Baseline Evaluation Of The Dc Emergency Healthcare Coalition, Melissa A. Higdon, Peter Shin, Michael A. Stoto
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
The DC Healthcare Facilities Emergency Care Coalition, funded by a grant by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), was designed to significantly improve the state of emergency preparedness in health care facilities in the District of Columbia (DC), and to create a model for emergency preparedness that can be used by other large cities or regions of care across the nation. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive, uniform, and consistent framework and infrastructure for emergency preparedness across the full continuum of patient care. Devised to address the inconsistencies, shortcomings, fragmentations, …
Food Service Trends In New South Wales Hospitals, 1993-2001, R. Mibey, P. G. Williams
Food Service Trends In New South Wales Hospitals, 1993-2001, R. Mibey, P. G. Williams
Peter Williams
A survey of the food service departments in 93 hospitals throughout NSW Australia (covering 51% of hospital beds in the state) was conducted using a mailed questionnaire and the results compared with those from similar surveys conducted in 1986 and 1993. Over the past eight years there has been a significant increase in the proportion of hospitals using cook-chill food service production systems, from 18% in 1993 to 42% in 2001 (p<0.001). Hospitals with cook-chill systems had lower staff ratios than those with cook-fresh systems (8.3 vs 6.4 beds/full time equivalent staff; p<0.05), but there was no significant …
I'M As Mad As Hell And I'M Not Going To Take This Anymore: On Indignation And Health Care, David J. Balan
I'M As Mad As Hell And I'M Not Going To Take This Anymore: On Indignation And Health Care, David J. Balan
David J. Balan
This paper begins with the idea that patients become “indignant” when they are denied care at their preferred provider, even if the denial is justified under the patient’s insurance policy, and consequently take actions that impose costs upon their insurers or employers. I develop a simple model to explore the effects of such patient indignation on provider prices and profits, as well as on the number of uninsured, total social welfare, and consumer welfare.
Effect Of Statute Changes On Admission Trends At A New Jersey State Psychiatric Hospital , Monica Malone
Effect Of Statute Changes On Admission Trends At A New Jersey State Psychiatric Hospital , Monica Malone
PCOM Psychology Dissertations
The impact of changes in New Jersey civil commitment laws on admission patterns at a New Jersey state psychiatric hospital was studied using an interrupted time series design. The target years were 1965, 1988, 1994, and 1998, years when significant changes in the commitment law took effect. The data studied were the total number of admissions per month. There were no significant changes in admission trends at any of the target dates. Possible reasons for these findings are discussed.