In:
Yönetim ve Ekonomi Araştırmaları Dergisi, Yonetim ve Ekonomi Arastirmalari Dergisi - Journal of Management and Economics Research, Vol. 18, No. 4 ( 2020-12-31), p. 190-208
Abstract:
Patient transfers between hospitals is a set of processes that require an organizational decision that includes coordination and cooperation between transfer and acceptted hospitals in cases where adequate conditions cannot be provided or patients require advanced examination and treatment. The management of this process is very important in terms of patient care quality and hospital performance. This study is aimed to analysis of patient transfers from health facilities in the Eastern Black Sea Region through 112 Command and Control Centers. This study is aimed to analysis of patient trasfers from health facilities in the Eastern Black Sea Region through 112 Command and Control Centers. In addition to analyzing the demographic characteristics of patient transfers between hospitals, transfer diagnoses and reasons were also examined. The study includes 110,688 patient referrals between 42 provinces and 272 hospitals from Artvin, Rize, Gümüşhane, Trabzon and Giresun provincial and district hospitals to other health institutions by ambulance in the year 2015 and 2017. The descriptive analysis of the research was made with the SPSS 22 program. The fact that the scope of the research is quite wide has provided many findings, revealed the structure of the inter-hospital health system at the regional level, presenting the strengths of this structure, making determinations and suggestions about the areas that need to be improved. Since focusing on the analysis of all hospitals in a region is a representative sub-component of the health system, it is predicted that the study will contribute to the health sector on a country basis. This study is the first study in the national literature to analyze inter-hospital patient referrals at the regional level.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2148-029X
DOI:
10.11611/yead.815880
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Yonetim ve Ekonomi Arastirmalari Dergisi - Journal of Management and Economics Research
Publication Date:
2020
