Search for dissertations about: "Hospital standards"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the words Hospital standards.

2. 1. Improving quality of perinatal care through clinical audit : a study from a tertiary hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

   Author : Hussein L Kidanto; Lennarth Nyström; Gunilla Lindmark; Siriel Massawe; Geir Jacobsen; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Perinatal mortality; perinatal audit; avoidable factors; anaemia in pregnancy; eclampsia; Epidemiology; Epidemiologi; epidemiologi; Epidemiology;

   Abstract : Perinatal audit has been tested and proved an important tool for reduction of perinatal mortality and assessment of quality of perinatal care. At Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), a tertiary hospital in Dar es salaam, Tanzania we performed a retrospective cross-sectional study using data from an obstetrics database to classify all perinatal deaths during 1999-2003. READ MORE

4. 2. Improving the quality of caesarean section in a low-resource setting : An intervention by criteria-based audit at a tertiary hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

   Author : Andrew Hans Mgaya; Birgitta Essén; Hussein Kidanto; Lennarth Nyström; Jeroen van Dillen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Caesarean section; Criteria-based audit; Fetal distress; Obstructed labour; Low resource setting; Robson classification; Obstetrik och gynekologi; Obstetrics and Gynaecology;

   Abstract : A sharp increase in caesarean section (CS) rates at the Muhimbili National Referral Hospital (MNH) – a tertiary referral hospital in Tanzania – by 50% in 2000–2011, was associated with concomitant increase in maternal complications and deaths and inconsistent improvement in newborn outcomes. The aims of this thesis were to explore care providers’ in-depth perspective of the reasons for these high rates of CS, and to evaluate and improve standards of care for the most common indica-tions of CS, obstructed labour and fetal distress, which are also major causes of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. READ MORE

5. 3. Critical care in low resource settings

   Author : Tim Baker; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Critical Care;

   Abstract : Background: Critical care is the care of patients with immediately life-threatening disease or injury. The substantial global burden of critical illness is especially high in low resource settings. There is a striking lack of knowledge about the quality of critical care in such settings and about how to improve care. READ MORE

6. 4. Conditions for care : factors in the nurse work environment related to safe and high quality care in acute care hospitals

   Author : Lisa Smeds Alenius; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Shortages of registered nurses (RNs) intensify challenges for healthcare service providers in matching an increasing demand for care with a sufficient healthcare workforce. Poor working conditions have been recognized to often precede RNs’ decision to leave the profession prematurely. READ MORE

7. 5. Transforming information into practical actions : A study of professional knowledge in the use of electronic patient records

   Author : Thomas Winman; Berner Lindström; Lars Svensson; Anne Moen; Högskolan Väst; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Electronic patient records; professional knowledge; decision making; work integrated learning; standardization; Pedagogik; Pedagogics; Arbetsintegrerat lärande; Work Integrated Learning;

   Abstract : Today, technologies are being introduced into historically established settings, which change the conditions for work as well as for work-integrated learning. In health care, electronic patient records (EPRs) has been implemented during the last decades to serve as a tool for planning, decision making and evaluation of care work. READ MORE