Healthcare organizations and patient transfers: a transportation industry perspective.
A major restructuring is underway in Ontario in the delivery of a wide range of public services, including healthcare, public transit and ambulance services. The resulting trends in these three industries have converged in a number of models for the delivery of non-emergency patient transfers. Hospitals find themselves involved in the business of transportation: engaged in new partnerships, and making new choices, to manage the movement of stable patients between sites, to medical procedures and to return home.
D000552:Ambulances / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009864:Ontario; D010360:Patient Transfer; D011635:Public Health Administration; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014187:Transportation of Patients / Q000191:economics