Top Research Papers on Hospital Management

A cutting-edge Hospital Management System (HMS) that combines blockchain technology and NFC hardware to enhance data management, streamline operations, and improve patient outcomes is introduced.

As gender dissident individuals, trans people are often subject to stigma, discrimination and violence. Despite the potential bene fi ts travel and tourism can o ff er to these individuals, their experiences have been widely ignored by researchers and mistakenly included under the same umbrella as lesbian, gay and bisexual tourism. This study sought to explore trans women's tourism motivations and experiences in a Mexican context. The research was grounded in social stigma theory and recently developed transgender travel and tourism theory. Based on qualitative interviews, the results reveal tha...

This paper presents a comprehensive review of crisis management in the hospitality sector, focusing on key themes, theoretical frameworks, empirical findings, and practical implications. The review highlights the significance of proactive planning and preparedness, emphasizing the importance of risk assessment, scenario planning, and business continuity strategies to enhance organizational resilience. Effective communication emerges as a cornerstone of crisis management, underscoring the necessity for transparent, timely, and empathetic communication with stakeholders. Collaboration with exter...

The growth and changes facing the hotel industry globally have in several ways affected the competence of its personnel. There is growing concern about graduate competency and what industry requires. Previous studies reveal that hospitality management programs do not adequately prepare hospitality students with the competencies necessary to fit today's workplace. Therefore, educational institutions must play their role in developing and instilling important competencies in their graduates so as to prepare them for the competitive world of work. This paper aims to investigate the competencies r...

This review paper explores the transformative landscape of innovations in hospital management, emphasizing their pivotal role in shaping healthcare's current and future state, and identifies future research and innovation areas, including artificial intelligence integration and blockchain technology.

The conclusion is that the resulting Management Information System does not support the reporting produced as feedback on the evaluation of the implementation of the programs being run, both manually and with computerized systems.

Healhub revolutionizes hospital management, offering seamless integration for administrators, doctors, and patients, and fostering excellence in patient care by fostering excellence in patient care and optimizing workflows.

Management of opioid-induced constipation should begin with ensuring adequate hydration and electrolyte balance and encouraging patient mobilization, and may include laxatives, enemas, intestinal secretagogues, peripherally acting µ-opioid receptor antagonists, and manual disimpaction.

The researchers found that the system could speed up the working progress and productivity of hospital employees and could also generate hospital reports that could help the users to provide an overview of the hospital transaction within specific date.

It was concluded that female managers are more successful in evaluating resource management capacity and resource management capacities of specialty hospitals are at a better level than general hospitals.

The article examines the state of development, problems, and needs of innovative management in the hospitality industry. Based on research results using the example of EU countries, the dominance of a group of countries with the lowest indicators of workforce employment in the hospitality industry across all types of activities (59.3%) has been identified. The presence of highly developed countries in this group indicates the activation of innovative management activities in the hospitality industry. Accordingly, the directions of modern digital trends in the hospitality industry have been stu...

Purpose: This paper explored the role of innovation and creativity in hospitality management. The purpose was to examine how innovation and creativity can enhance customer experiences, operational efficiency, and financial performance in the hospitality industry. The objectives were to define innovation and creativity, identify different forms of innovation, discuss the drivers and barriers to innovation and creativity, examine the role of technology in enabling innovation and creativity, explore strategies for fostering innovation and creativity, and highlight potential future trends and chal...

The paper discusses the concept of a web-based platform that would enable various hospital and medical processes to be performed online utilizing Web networking technologies, which could be crucial for implementing the functionality of online medical administration.

This research introduces a methodology structured in five stages for diagnosing patient trajectory management, integrating strategic and operational perspectives, and offers a holistic approach for healthcare administrators to evaluate the patient's journey within the hospital setting comprehensively.

Results show that competencies taught by hospitality management educators have no significant relationship to the responses in the competencies demanded with a correlation coefficient of 0.304 and a probability of0.103 and there was a significant relationship between the competency taught and demanded by the hospitality Industry in Cotabato, Province.

Besides LDL-C, the management of BP, blood glucose (BG), and BMI need to be strengthened in not only community hospitals but also general hospitals.

Along with recognized risk factors such as gender, News 2 score, and obesity, the patient’s pre-hospital pathway is an important risk factor associated with hospitalization.

This study examines whether Portuguese hotel sector firms engage in earnings management (EM) practices to provide specific accounting results and test the main determinants in explaining EM. We use the SABI database to collect panel data regarding 1615 Portuguese SME hotels from 2006–2013. In order to obtain results, a graphical representation of the distribution of the net income and the estimation of the discretionary accruals were used, from which two estimation models were formulated. The results obtained provide empirical evidence that firms in the Portuguese hotel sector seem to engage i...

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of assertiveness, aggressiveness, and perceived risks on consumer complaining behavior (CCB) in the tourism and hospitality sector. This research utilized a quantitative methodology through the implementation of a two-stage study based on surveys. Study 1 examined the impacts of assertiveness, aggressiveness, and perceived risks on CCB in the context of low-quality summer vacation, while Study 2 further investigated the relationships in the research model by replicating the survey within the framework of high-quality summer vacat...

The Advanced Hospital Management System provides the benefits of streamlined operations, enhanced administration & control, superior patient care, strict cost control and improved profitability.

It is shown that a reform which introduced a competitive selection system for recruiting CEOs in public hospitals reduced hospital mortality by approximately 8%, and the mortality effects were driven by hospitals in which the new CEOs had managerial qualifications.

Hospitals need crisis management structures and processes that allow hospitals to react to crises that affect the house itself, as is the case in a pandemic.

This edited volume entitled “Research in Tourism and Hospitality Management” is being published for the benefit of researchers, academicians, and Industry stakeholders in the field of tourism and hospitality. It contains sixteen different chapters covering a wide range of topics on tourism and hospitality management.

Significant progress has been made in the in-hospital IBD management; however, both the management of ASUC and hospitalized Crohn's disease remain a challenge with suboptimal outcomes.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first is to review the extant literature on hospitality management by tracking past research patterns and critically reviewing the use of multilevel theory and techniques in this stream of research. The second is to suggest potential research opportunities to stimulate a leap forward in the current multilevel research. Design/methodology/approach To answer the four main research questions raised by the current review, the author performed a critical analysis of a total of 149 selected articles published between 2011 and 2021 in seven leading...

An application is developed that locates the nearest hospital according to specialized consultant availability and is designed for Any Hospital to replace their existing manual, paper-based system.

The role of HID in enhancing the sustainability of HSCM and the various strategies that can be implemented are discussed.

The results of this study can be helpful for developers of business intelligence tools, such as hospital management dashboards, to visualize the most important indicators for managers.

Purpose This paper aims to proffer a broad overview of publications in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (IJCHM) by conducting bibliometric analyses for the duration ranging from 1989 to 2022. Design/methodology/approach The research approach analyses the top authors, publications, most collaborative countries and top co-occurring keywords and significant themes published in IJCHM with the help of the Scopus database. The study entails performance analyses on IJCHM. A de-duplicating process was used to study the evolution of themes, so that the keywords identi...

This cross-sectional study uses hospitals’ self-disclosed pricing information to characterize Medicaid managed care hospital prices.

Purpose This study aims to explore the role General Managers (GMs) play in mitigating the effects of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative structured interviews conducted online with 50 hospitality GMs from 45 countries are used to explore the impact of the pandemic on the industry’s operational norms and the role of managers in both managing the crisis and planning contingencies for recovery. Findings The findings enhance the conceptual capital in this emerging field and provide insights on how GMs behave during crises. Four related sub-themes emerg...

The findings can guide quality departments and hospital management to regain professionals' commitment to quality and to establish a sustainable quality management system.

This systematic review and meta-analysis examines randomized clinical trial evidence for fluvoxamine to prevent hospitalization of patients with COVID-19 and concludes that the drug should be considered for use in combination with chemotherapy to treat central nervous system disorders.

The article identifies the factors that affect the manipulation of earnings so that strategies can be set to predict and avoid such behaviours and reveals that the Greek state-owned hospitals try to report small surpluses from 2009–2019.

It is hypothesized correctly that the likelihood of discharge to home decreases with advancement of age in the presence of intracranial hemorrhage, and this is a single-center study of trauma registry data.

Analysis of policies and procedures used by Italian healthcare facilities to reduce hospital falls found public procedures for preventing patient falls in Italian hospitals are scarcely compliant with the 2011 Ministerial recommendation.

The hygiene management of the operating room adopts PDCA sustainable improvement management measures to effectively increase the qualification rate of disinfection and sterilization, reduce the detection rate of pathogenic bacteria and infection rate of surgical incisions, and strengthen the management quality of hand hygiene, environmental hygiene, medical waste, and disinfections and isolation.

Management and operations of hotels, restaurants, recreation, travel, and tourism. Cooking and wine. General sites on the Hospitality industry.

Hospitals should prioritize employee competencies, such as domain knowledge, data literacy, AI and data science skills, critical thinking, collaboration, adaptability, and ethical awareness, to optimize the use of AI in IRM, improve patient outcomes, enhance operational efficiency, and mitigate risks effectively.

This paper analyzes and recommends the management of hepatitis C screening from both in-hospital and out-of-hospital perspectives, with the aim of contributing to the formulation of hepatitisC screening strategies.

Inpatient diabetes management teams should have an inpatient diabetes management team that includes dietitians, diabetes educators, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and endocrinologists to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the risk of hospital complications and mortality.

It is hoped that this study will enable the majority of hospital managers to make better use of electronic information engineering technology to effectively solve the current problems faced by hospitals and to continuously improve the comprehensive competitiveness of China’s hospitals.

It is shown that managers in public sector hospitals tend to underperform, relative to private hospitals, in all the countries considered, and larger hospitals appear to be better managed, while there is no difference between teaching and other type of hospitals.

The study found that knowledge management was a predictive factor in sustainability regarding economic and social factors and had a strong correlation to sustainability performance, which may additionally persuade workers to put more effort into knowledge management.

This case illustrates a potential treatment pathway that allows for safe and comfortable xylazine withdrawal in hospitalized patients and provides an introduction into several medical concerns affecting this patient population specifically, including xylazines-mediated soft tissue wounds.

Originality/Value: This chapter continues the debate as to the role of STM in hospitality organisations as well as providing a more focussed agenda for both future research and practice. We also analyse and critique the internal and external forces and pressures that shape STM in hospitality organisations.

The social response status of managers in private hospitals was better than public ones and the status of social accountability of public hospital managers was not significantly different from private hospitals.

The hospital world is characterized by a great complexity, indeed the hospital, whose main mission is the production of care, is a field of interaction between medical knowledge, caregivers and administrative management.

The hospitality industry is currently one of the dynamic areas of the developing economy which stimulates the development of various sectors of the modern economy. The current challenges posed by the next economic crisis and the effects of pandemic constraints require the formation of new mechanisms for managing the hospitality sector. The main purpose of the research is to create modern management tools for the development of the investment potential of the hospitality industry. The subject of the research includes Ukrainian hospitality enterprises, their financial condition and management in...

HMS functions as a centralised platform for the management of appointments, patient data, inventory, billing, and provider-to-provider communication and makes it easier for healthcare delivery to continuously improve quality.