Foreword / Errol Pickering IHF Director General. The International Hospital Federation. Forthcoming IHF events. IHF Council of Management 1991-1993. List of members. IHF membership. What the IHF is. What the IHF does. Journal of the IHF — World Hospitals. Newsletter of the IHF — Health Services International. Hospital associations. Consensus conference reports and health technology assessments, clinical practice and associated reports.
Consensus conference reports 55 Health technology assessment reports. Cinical practice guidelines. Associated conference and other reports.
Management and administration. Financial health services in developing countries / Peter Mensah. Patient, procedure and resource source scheduling / James Moore. Cut costs by privatising problems / J Clifford Findeiss. High-tech equipment management solutions / George P Conbeer. The quality dimension / Robert J Maxwell. Rising medical equipment costs are offset by managed maintenance cost controls / Peter C Vincer Jr. Total quality in practice / Craig A Anderson. Hospital accreditation in Taiwan /Hemg-Chui and Professor Chin-Chuan Yeh. Turning a healthy profit on emergency medicine / Keith L Goding. Analytical tools for quality improvement in the health care setting / Christopher Ross. Hospital managerial innovations and economic efficiency in Hong Kong / Brijesh C Purohit. East meets West / Johannes Vang. Re-inventing materials management / Bernard J Lachner. Meeting the human resources challenge: a North American perspective / Stephen W Gamble. Ethics and money in the hospital / Jean Michaud. The hospital and health challenge / Dominique Jolly. The joint West-Russia projects in medical informatics / A I Martynov, R A Elchiyan, I V Emelin, A I Romanov and F A Tumanov. Modem dynamic management / Eugen Hauke. Problems in North America / William Busat. Staff development programme / Bengt Linder. French management education / Pierre Mano. Technology assessment / Barbara Stocking. Reducing health costs by managed care / K Ramesh. Assessment of hospital technology in the Netherlands / Borst-Eilers. Energy saving — a quality approach / Arthur T S Jackson. Writing off losses in budget contracts / William J Bryans. The quality dimension / Guillermo Fajardo Ortiz. The survival of colonial civil services and their implications for the health sector / John Cooper-Poole. Quality control in health care / Syed Amin Tabish. Ultrasound in Siberia / Nikolai V Mishenkin, Anna A Letuchikh.
Building design, planning, construction and refurbishment. Integrated systems — security and communications / Chris Clements. Automatic smoke detection systems — how to protect areas of limited access / Hubert B Angst. Turnkey medical waste incineration systems single-source problem solving / Robert J Koch. Stockholm gets new 3000-fine intercom / Teleste Tele AB. Earthquake damage to hospitals / Donald Axon. Modular facilities — the flexible solution / GE Capital Modular Space. Planning tropical hospitals / Edwin Haydon. CAFM in health care provision / Mary Babic. Industrial Acoustic' sound-isolated structures / Zachery Jaquett. The general manager's guide to ABC / Stephen Woollard, A Aldridge.
Operating theatres and intensive care. The barrier integrity monitor / Dietmar Rabussay, Robert E Comelialll. Ultrasound scanning in neurosurgery / Brian A Simpson MA, MD, FRCS. Ventilator systems in times of change / Jens B Anderson. Nitrolingual Spray / G Pohl-Boskamp & Co. Planning an operating department / Irwan Rachman. Making IT work in critical care areas / Melvin I Reynolds.
Ward furnishing and patient facilities. The problem of Debubitus Ulcers / Eric A Viesturs. Mattress overlays and pressure ulcers / Nancy J Muller. Pressure area care / Edward Nunn. The uce of carpets in hospitals / Lee Cheong.
Therapeutic departments and other direct patient care services. Interval hypoxia training / Elana Tkatchuk and Tatyana Tsyganova. Automated transpon systems / Gail E Dancer. VacuMatic IHS 3-15 / LEHA Development. A natural approach to disease / Wendy Arnheim. The Swiss Lithclast / William von Niederháusern. Orthopaedic supply problems in Poland / Janus Zaczynski. Ambulances that meet user requirements / Ford of Europe Incorporated. Modern lithotripsy devices O Wess.
Diagnostics, research and laboratories. Optimum use of intravascular radiological contrast media / Ronald G Grainger. Prosthetics and prothesis construction at Moscow's Central Research Institute Central Research Institute. of Prosthetics and Prothesis Construction. Digital dictation technology: first practical implementation in a Belgian hospital / Philips Dictation Systems. Elemental alimentation / V I Vorobiov. Minatom's growing medical activities Stanislav / M Tsvetaev. Aspects of the application of immobilised penicillin acylase / Lidia Pagg-Dziegielewska. Side stream spirometry / Datex division of Instrumentarium Corporation. History of PTCA / Peter Winzeler and Werner Niederhauser. Print spooling comes of age / Michael J Cannavo.
Pharmaceuticals, pharmacy and CSSD. Security through automated packaging inspection / Raymond Johnson. Biomed and its activities / Biomed. The procurement of drugs and medical equipment in the single market / Jurgen Vellink.
Primary health care and community care. AIDS/HIV infection in India /Amin Tabish. Attaining the optimal diet to prevent disease / Ernst L WynderB Renner. The role of lipids in the nutrition of premature infants / B Renner.
Nursing services. Recruitment, retention and motivation of nursing staff / Derek J Dean.
Special feature: health care in Spain. Winds of reform in Spain? / Muñoz-Machado. Quality assurance programmes in Spain / R Suñol, C Sanz, C Abéllo and R M Saura. A systems approach to overall hospital communications / Electronica General de Sonido SA.