Alarmed: sensory approaches to improving medical alarm systems

Medical alarms sound incessantly, loudly, and dissonantly, contributing to an already noisy ICU and OR soundscape, and ultimately harming both patients and staff. Sometimes triggered in error, the sheer number of alarms distracts health care professionals and results in sensory overload that contributes to hospital staff’s alarm fatigue. In turn, staff become increasingly likely to ignore alarms instead of acting on them. Furthermore, the patients’ sensitivity to alarms disturbs their hospital stay, raises their stress levels, and impedes their recovery process, with sometimes lasting effects. This article considers the sensory effects of hospital alarms and possibilities for redesigning future alarm systems, with the goal of eventually creating a more calming, less stressful, and safer hospital soundscape environment for all.     

民营医院集团化治理的实践与体会

治理结构的不稳定?不科学是造成民营医院集团管理不利的最根本原因?文章以江苏华世伟业集团为研究对象,对其集团化发展模式进行了实证分析?江苏华世伟业集团在构建出所有权?经营权?监督权三权分立治理结构的基础上,进一步完善集团层面的集约化管理模式和医院层面的无形资产构建,对民营医疗集团制定发展模式具有普遍参考意义?     

某三甲医院员工满意度现状分析研究

目的:通过医院员工满意度现状调查,针对问题提出对策,提高员工满意度,改善医疗服务质量,为医院提高员工满意度提供决策依据。方法:采用满意度问卷调查表收集数据,采用SPSS20.0软件进行统计分析。结果:员工满意度总体情况接近比较满意水平;影响因素有工作岗位、学历水平、专业技术职称等方面。结论:医院应当关注员工满意情绪管理,建立员工满意度调查制度,关注不同影响因素和不同群体差异,以提高员工工作满意度。     

我国公立医院补偿机制转化的系统动力学分析

取消药品加成,改革以药补医机制是公立医院补偿机制改革的核心内容。文章运用系统动力学方法,通过因果关系分析明确取消药品加成后,财政补偿和医疗补偿的补偿方式和补偿依据,以及补偿不足、药品路径存在漏洞时可能会对公立医院产生的影响,最后给出结论与启示。     

Material logistics in hospitals: A literature review

Hospital material management has been identified as one key cost containment lever to cope with steadily increasing healthcare costs in industrialized countries. The purpose of this work is to present the state-of-the-art of research on material logistics management in hospitals. Particular focus is given to articles that apply quantitative methods. Our contribution is threefold: First, we provide research guidance through categorizing literature and identifying major research streams. Second, we discuss applied methodologies and third, we identify future research directions. A systematic approach is undertaken in order to identify the relevant literature from 1998 to 2014. Applicable publications are categorized thematically and methodologically and future research opportunities are worked out. In total, 145 publications are identified and discussed in this work. The literature is categorized into four streams, i.e., (1) Supply and procurement, (2) Inventory management, (3) Distribution and scheduling, and (4) Holistic supply chain management. The use of optimization techniques is constantly gaining importance. The number of respective publications has continually grown and has peaked over the last three years. Optimization has been successfully applied in research streams (1), (2), and (3). Category (4) comprises a rather qualitative research field of literature dealing with supply chain management issues.     

Danish and Norwegian hospital social workers’ cross-institutional work amidst inter-sectoral restructuring of health and social welfare

Starting in the 2000s, Denmark and Norway have undergone extensive restructuring of their health-related social benefit programmes, including how they are governed. Several reforms have sought to enhance inter-sectoral collaboration. Aiming at ensuring patients’ faster return to work, policy-makers have instituted economic incentives to both individuals and the health and welfare organisations who handle them. Through an institutional logics approach, this paper explores how hospital social workers in these countries are experiencing these changes. The ‘social’ part of post-treatment care and rehabilitation receives more attention in the Norwegian institutional set-up than in the Danish, and whilst challenges are experienced in both countries, in group interviews Danish social workers in particular express concerns about the implications of the accelerated return-to-work focus. In both countries, they report increasing difficulties in ‘making their way through’ the state-municipal bureaucracy. However, by drawing on the formal health knowledge derived from medical settings and the symbolic capital it bestows on them, they often manage to negotiate the work-and-welfare services, thereby transforming the social context for the patients.     

浅谈洁净手术部在医院基建工程中的特殊需求

随着现代医学的发展,洁净手术部成为各手术学科建设与发展的重要前提与支柱,对原有手术室功能进行改造势在必行。为了实现医院洁净手术部向信息化、智能化、集约化发展,从洁净手术部的选址、功能等方面介绍了当前省内部分二级以上医疗单位洁净手术室建设的新进展,总结近年来在洁净手术室规划、建设过程中的经验,为现代医院基建工程管理提供借鉴,保障医院医疗、教学、科研工作的顺利开展。     

加强医院青年文化建设初探——以广西医科大学第一附属医院为例

如何加强医院青年文化建设,引导青年成才,促进青年在医疗事业中发挥更重要的作用,已经成为医院发展面临的一项新课题。针对医院青年文化建设存在的引导方式陈旧、活动组织困难、活动同质化等问题,应坚持先进文化的前进方向,用社会主义核心价值观引领青年文化建设;加大投入,加强激励,贴近实际,加强文化阵地建设,活跃青年文化生活;加强引领与品牌管理,构建特色品牌文化体系;强化医学人文精神,倡导职业文明。