Vol 3, No 4 (2014)

Journal of Hospital Administration, Vol. 3, No. 4, August 2014

Table of Contents

Original Article

Using an e-Delphi technique in achieving consensus across disciplines for developing best practice in day surgery in Ireland
Babak Meshkat, Seamus Cowman, Georgina Gethin, Kiaran Ryan, Miriam Wiley, Aoifa Brick, Erik Clarke, Eadhbhard Mulligan
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What can population-based physician billing data tell us about the prevalence, costs and disorders associated with different types of cancers based on the 16 years prevalence of cancer diagnosis?
Jazmin Lui, Aru Narendran, David Cawthorpe
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Risk of burnout among emergency physicians at a tertiary care centre in Saudi Arabia
Abdulmohsen Alsaawi, Khaled Alrajhi, Saad Albaiz, Mohammed Alsultan, Majid Alsalamah, Shoeb Qureshi, Abdullah Alanazi
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The impact of acute care clinical practice guidelines on length of stay: A closer look at some conflicting findings
Moriah Ellen, G. Ross Baker, Adalsteinn Brown
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An online short-term bed occupancy rate prediction procedure based on discrete event simulation
Zhu Zhecheng
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A maturity model for governance, risk management and compliance in hospitals
Ronald Batenburg, Matthijs Neppelenbroek, Abbas Shahim
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Variation in length of stay within and between hospitals
Thom Walsh, Tracy Onega, Todd Mackenzie
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A retrospective study on emergency visits in two hospitals in Sherbrooke, Canada
Lourdes Zubieta, José Ramón Fernández-Peña
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The search for the perfect handover
Mohammed Samee, Catherine Kallal, Seth Hamman
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The incidence of mesh extrusion after vaginal incontinence and pelvic floor prolapse surgery
Seth Cohen, Elizabeth Kavaler
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The therapeutic hypothermia after resuscitated cardiac arrest caused by ventricular fibrillation: a retrospective study in Saint Pierre University Hospital
Séverine Libert, Pierre Mols, Philippe Dechamps, Marc Claus, Christian Mélot, Benoit Claessens
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Missed appointments at maternal healthcare clinics in primary healthcare centres in Riyadh city: reasons and associated factors
Adel Almalki
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A quasi-experimental study to test a prevention bundle for catheter-associated urinary tract infections
Alyson M. Blanck, Moreen Donahue, Laurie Brentlinger, Kristy Dixon Stinger, Carol Polito
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Hospital readmission rates in Medicare
Erkan Erdem, Betty Tao Fout, Holly Korda, Abisola O. Abolude
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Support services for people who have undergone treatment for head and neck cancer: an approach to evaluating services
Ann Richardson, Pauline Barnett, Liz Horn, Kate Reid, Wendy Mann, Frankie Roake, Catherine Dwan, Robert Allison, Catriona Mackay
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Pediatrician workforce planning: The Israeli experience and projections of pediatric manpower 1995–2025
Michal Laufer, Zvi Howard Perry, Haim Reuveni, Asaf Toker
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Uncovering health literacy: Developing a remotely administered questionnaire for determining health literacy levels in health disparate populations
Thomas C. Shaw
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Healthcare executives’ readiness for a performance measurement system: a rehabilitation hospital case study
Diana Zidarov, Lise Poissant, Claude Sicotte
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Review

International models of health systems financing
Robert R. Kulesher, Elizabeth Elizabeth Forrestal
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