Purpose: Organizational culture has been shown to be an important characteristic that influences behaviors of groups and individuals within an organization. This study seeks to examine the relationships among various organizational values, staff engagement, staff wellbeing, and patient satisfaction in community hospitals.
Participants And Methods: Organizational values and engagement data were retrieved from all-staff survey results from 387 clinical units at Mayo Clinic Health Systems.
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) prevalence increases with age, but the relation between age at PAD diagnosis and outcomes is unclear. We investigated the cardiovascular and limb outcomes of patients diagnosed with PAD at different ages. We studied patients with PAD aged ≥18 years who were diagnosed between 1996 and 2020 at Mayo Clinic.
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February 2020
Objective: To examine the relationships among various organizational values, employee engagement, and patient satisfaction in an academic medical center.
Participants And Methods: Organizational values and engagement data were retrieved from 2015 all-staff survey results from 1876 clinical units at Mayo Clinic. For patient satisfaction data, Press Ganey scores from visits from July 1, 2015, through January 1, 2016, were matched with data for 26 outpatient units from the all-staff survey.
Background: Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is rare and involves thrombosis of the veins and sinuses of the brain, most commonly the superior sagittal sinus. Approximately 5 CVT cases occur per 1 million persons in western countries. CVT causes 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIraq is suffering from depleted uranium (DU) pollution in many regions and the effects of this may harm public health through poisoning and increased incidence of various cancers and birth defects. DU is a known carcinogenic agent. About 1200 tonnes of ammunition were dropped on Iraq during the Gulf Wars of 1991 and 2003.
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