Purpose. The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of leadership styles on performance of public and private hospitals in Kuwait. Critical to the study was a determination of the association between leadership style and performance. Performance measures examined include…
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The purpose of this study is threefold: first, identifying the factors that explain patient perceptions of Saudi public hospital quality; second, examining the relationship between contracting out the management and operation of Saudi public hospitals and the level of perceived …
There is a chronic shortage of Saudi health professionals, especially nurses. The solution to the present nursing shortage is complex, but if we identify those factors that professional nurses perceive as negative, because they contribute to dissatisfaction and turnover, possibl…
In the first half of the fourth century CE, church leaders, heads of state, monks, lay Christians and Jews all began to provide charitable care for the destitute poor and sick in the form of food, shelter, medical care, baths, burial and alms in hospitals, hospices and shelters …
Hospitals in Egypt are approaching a time of change during which they will be required to assess their roles and the way they function as organizations. Health sector reform initiatives requiring greater autonomy and accountability are being pushed by international donors and in…
This study was to evaluate the development level of Clinical Engineering Departments (CEDs) in hospitals in developing countries. The method of data collection was a survey done by structured questionnaire sent by Email and Listserv. In total, 61 responses (9% response rate) wer…
This study involved the development of proposed guidelines for staff development programs at the Armed Forces Hospitals in Saudi Arabia. After those guidelines were developed it was the purpose of this study (1) to explore, investigate and compare the perceptions of the Armed Fo…
The study is on the designing a robot assisted endonasal endoscopic surgical system; NeuRoboScope, the pituitary tumor resection surgery system. This system comprises a passive and an active arm. The passive arm positions the active arm in the surgery zone while the active arm a…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has experienced increase in health expenditure and the demand for healthcare services. Health statistics indicate inefficiency in resource utilization within the healthcare system, particularly in the hospital sector. This thesis assessed the ef…
Background. Nosocomial invasive aspergillosis (a highly fatal disease) is an increasing problem for immunocompromised patients. Aspergillus spp. can be transmitted via air (most commonly) and by water. The hypothesis for this prospective study was that there is an association be…
This study used a qualitative action research approach to investigate the question, “What do community representatives of Jagraon, Pakistan, perceive that they need from a sister hospital in Powell River, British Columbia, to support them in developing their own health care faci…
The scope of this study was to explore the current implementations of Electronic Health Record systems in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, focusing on those factors which are recognized to be barriers for such implementations. Using a questionnaire that was distributed to six major …
Since the 1990's, Turkish public sector organizations, like their counterparts around the world, have been in search of better ways to improve their effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of services. In pursuit of improved management, a number of Turkish public hospitals have s…
A qualitative, explorative, and experiential study was conducted with seventeen hospitalized Muslim women in Omaha, Nebraska through initial, follow-up, and termination interviews. The study was coded, analyzed, and synthesized, and themes were discovered. The importance of reco…
This dissertation is a case study of cosmopolitan city space. It examines how ethnic, national and religious minorities used spatial settings to forge and negotiate conceptions of foreignness and localness in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Alexandria, Egypt. Using …
The purpose of this study was to investigate Saudi people's attitudes toward (1) Saudi women working with men in hospitals regardless of their occupational prestige, (2) Saudi female administrative personnel, (3) Saudi female physicians, (4) Saudi female nurses and (5) admitting…
As a building type hospitals have undergone a substantial evolution in the past years. Changes in healthcare, the impact of evidence-based medicine and aspects of healthcare economics (such as the clustering of diagnostic procedures in specialized clinics) pose new and different…
