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Hospitals, Volume 2, Issue 3

September 2025 - 11 articles

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Articles (11)

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1,165 Views
8 Pages

11 September 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
686 Views
20 Pages

Testing Realist Programme Theories on the Contribution of Lean Six Sigma to Person-Centred Cultures: A Comparative Study in Public and Private Acute Hospitals

  • Seán Paul Teeling,
  • Deborah Baldie,
  • Ailish Daly,
  • Anthony Pierce,
  • Nicola Wolfe,
  • Gillian Fagan and
  • Catherine Garry

4 September 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,297 Views
19 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,194 Views
14 Pages

Sex- and Age-Specific Utilization Patterns of Nuclear Medicine Procedures at a Public Tertiary Hospital in Jamaica

  • Tracia-Gay Kennedy-Dixon,
  • Mellanie Didier,
  • Fedrica Paul,
  • Andre Gordon,
  • Marvin Reid and
  • Maxine Gossell-Williams

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
878 Views
12 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
640 Views
20 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
880 Views
15 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,861 Views
15 Pages

Prediction of Waiting Lists for Medical Specialties in Hospitals in Costa Rica Using Queuing Theory and Monte Carlo Simulation

  • Bernal Vargas-Vargas,
  • Erick Pérez-Murillo,
  • Jaime González-Domínguez and
  • Justo García-Sanz-Calcedo

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
834 Views
15 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,002 Views
15 Pages

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...

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