Small rural hospitals in New Zealand are hard to staff with medical physicians and this poses a challenge to the health sector. Eighty percent of registered physicians practice in urban centres, raising a significant concern to rural areas being able to retain medical professionals (Garces-Ozanne, ...
Accident and incident analysis in hospitals: how to transfer the RECUPERARE method from nuclear industryHealth care delivery today entails complicated technology and numerous interactions among health care practitioners. Adverse events can occur anywhere in the health care system. Although some accidents ...
eVTOL aircraft project manager Harald Jøsendal at Norsk Luft Ambulanse says that the project is still at an early phase in its development. While the partners are looking to use eVTOL aircraft for emergency air medical health services, they don’t see them being used to transpo...
As described in Table 3, regarding the efferent limb, at 17 (15%) of the hospitals, the responder was the on-call clinician–intensivist, whereas in the other 45 (85%) centers, responders were from one team (74%) or more than one team (26%) attending the deteriorating patients. Differ...
In the case of more relaxed environmental regulations in the host country, the investing country is more willing to transfer local high pollution-intensive industries to the host country. Such industries not only endanger the quality of the local environment, but also do not contribute to the ...
What’s behind our specialty rankings and ratings of procedures and conditions for U.S. News Best Hospitals 2024-2025 for adults, children and maternal care.
As a developing country, Serbia has fewer privileged resources to equip all of its medical institutions, which means premium devices are not easily accessible to patients and anesthesiologists in lower-tier hospitals in the country. Yet, Serbian authorities have been pushing hard against the status ...
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As helpful as hospitals are, patients don’t want to stay there long. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the average length of stay (LOS) is 4.7 days. Unfortunately, hospital stays are sometimes unnecessarily prolonged. Prolonged hospital stays increase patients...
The Lebanese health system is mainly a private one with few services in private hospitals reimbursed by the government. The private clinics were located in hospitals of rural and urban areas covering the majority of the Lebanese territory: Beirut, Mount-Lebanon, South, North and Beqaa. Those ...