1. Introduction 1.1. Background of the Problem Hospitals deal with the life and health of their patients. Good medical care relies on well-trained doctors and nurses and on high quality facilities and equipment. Good medical care also relies on good record keeping. Without accurate‚ comprehensive and up to date and accessible patient notes‚ medical personnel may not offer the best treatment or may in fact misdiagnose the condition‚ which can have serious consequences. Associated records‚ such
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it’s typical to find a hospital or a small clinic in almost each and every corner‚ of every municipality or city‚ some of this hospitals are well-run and well maintained‚ while others are not that organized‚ some even have a cheap but lousy service due to lack of staff‚ or maybe lack of experience of the employees. Most of the hospitals nowadays try to keep up with the never-ending‚ fast pace of technology‚ but sad to say‚ not every hospital can. Only the big shot hospitals are the only ones that
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Hospital Administration System P.Shathiyan Uva Wellassa University‚ Badulla‚ Sri Lanka Introduction Hospital Administration System is aimed to help the patients as well as the hospital to manages their better. In Sri Lankan Government Hospitals patients they spend hours in long-winding queues meandering all along hospital corridors. Moreover hospital staffs they keeping the information manually it causes too complex to review‚ maintaining the records. This Hospital Administration System (HAS) system
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recommend to ensure that hand over process in hospital wards is made efficiently. Typically handover occurs at two levels. The first is the generic handover‚ completed by the whole team. This handover is often a summary in nature‚ with only generic client information included. This handover generally does not allow for provision of detailed profession specific information. The handover is typically provided to a central location‚ namely the receiving hospital or General Practitioner‚ with copies provided
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Hospital-acquired infections (HAI) are the infections patients acquire while receiving treatment in a healthcare facility. In 2011‚ there was an estimated 722‚000 HAIs in U.S. hospitals resulting in 75‚000 deaths (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]‚ 2016). In addition to an increase in disease and mortality‚ HAIs negatively affect patient care by increasing patient length of stay and inpatient costs (Syndor & Perl‚ 2011). Intensive care units (ICUs) are associated with greater risk
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Bottleneck analysis: Also see enclosed Process flow chart (Appendix 1). Hospital is able to perform 42 exams/afternoon and send 38 patients to the operation rooms. But surgery capacity is 33 operations/day only. Bottleneck (number of operations/day) is therefore located between these two processes. Hospital performs 33 operations/day = demand 116 beds/Wed‚Thu and 99 beds/Tue. Demand is 116 and current capacity is 89. Bottleneck is the number of beds available. It is necessary to increase capacity
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Problem statement Pate Memorial Hospital is a 600-bed‚ independent‚ not-for-profit‚ self-supporting hospitals. PHC‚ an ambulatory health care facility‚ was opened by PMH. Sherri Worth‚ a new assistant administrator of Pate Memorial Hospital in charge of the PHC‚ was told that a firm plan establishes a clinic five blocks north of PHC. It is a big competitor for PHC. On the other hand‚ financial problems‚ Short service hours‚ long waiting time and lacking of gynecological services are all be the
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I have shadowing experience at North Hills Hospital in North Richland Hills‚ Texas. Under Dr. Kelly‚ an Orthopedic Surgeon specializing on the knee‚ I had the honor of witnessing multiple surgeries with the consent of the patient over the course of three days a week for four weeks and I am always astounded each time I observe the procedure. He shared with me his passion for orthopedics and reconnecting many aspects of peoples lives that were lost because of knee problems. I was able to shadow Dr
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One article discussed how the validity of infection control research is determined by how well infection as an outcome can be measured (Lin &Bonten‚ 2012). Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are a type of measured outcome for patient safety intervention (Lin &Bonten‚ 2012). Challenges in assessing hospital-acquired infection outcomes happen due to lack of a gold standard test in diagnosing infections; it is usually based on a clinician’s judgment if there is an infection or not (Lin &Bonten‚ 2012)
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Today was my third week in Metro Hospital. I was assigned one patient to work on time management with my clinical instructor. The patient I worked had surgery because she had a periocciptal aneurysm that had not yet burst. She chose to have the surgery because she learned the risk of having an aneurysm. I have learned that first thing I need to do is to check to see if the patient is alive because it is my responsibility to care for the patient. But I read the doctor notes prior to understand the
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