2025 September - 11 articles
Health systems function optimally when accountability principles, legal frameworks, and governance processes are clearly defined, understood, and implemented. Together these elements set norms, standards, and systems for the practice of health profes...
Person-centred cultures are increasingly recognised as essential to the delivery of compassionate, safe, and effective healthcare. While Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is widely adopted as a process improvement methodology, its application is often critiqued f...
The challenge for healthcare policy makers, managers and practitioners is finding ways to effectively collaborate with patients and community to plan, deliver and evaluate services. The study examined how managers engage the community with the strate...
Understanding the utilization patterns of nuclear medicine (NM) services is essential for optimizing resource allocation and service provision. This study aimed to address the regional evidence gap by reporting the demand for NM services by sex and a...
Objective: This study aimed to develop a performance evaluation index system for a district-level public hospital in Chongqing, China, based on Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs), to provide a benchmark for performance assessment in similar hospitals. T...
Hospital layouts play a critical role in supporting efficient care processes, which are continually evolving. While care processes adapt over time, the spatial needs of care professionals are expected to remain relatively stable. This study proposes...
Background: The emergency department (ED) often represents the entry point to care for patients that require urgent medical attention or have no alternative for medical treatment. This has implications on scope of practice and how quality of care is...
This study applies stochastic discrete event modeling to demonstrate that reducing wait times for specialized outpatient clinics in the Costa Rican public healthcare system is possible. The classification process identified four medical specialties w...
This study analyzes the comparative performance of ten hospitals in the Kadutu Health Zone in the Democratic Republic of Congo using the EGIPSS model. This study was carried out at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in August and September 2021, in...
The majority of Australians who die each year do so in an acute hospital setting and are cared for during the end of their life by a multidisciplinary team comprising nurses, medical staff, and allied health staff. Despite the range of professional d...
Healthcare is a dynamic and ever-changing phenomenon and is subject to multiple challenges, particularly concerning sustainability and cost issues. The literature identifies bed space and problems related to the lack of hospital beds as being directl...
