hospital
Let an agent handle hospitals by services, location, type, access and quality, and direct urgent needs to emergency services.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle hospitals by services, location, type, access and quality, and direct urgent needs to emergency services.
A health care institution providing treatment by specialised staff and equipment, often with inpatient beds, emergency care and specialist services.
What it is for: Diagnosing and treating patients, especially those needing specialist or inpatient care.
It can be attend for care or emergencies; visit patients; check services and quality ratings; complain or give feedback.
Distinguishing features
Provides specialised and inpatient care
Public or private
Regulated and inspected
Emergency departments serve urgent needs
What it looks like
Large buildings with wards, emergency departments, clinics and ambulances; historical forms include pest houses and infirmaries.
Physical character
beds: 10-3000+ beds
How it is recognised
Hospital signs and emergency department entrances
Official registration and ratings
Makeshift hospitals in crises
Related models
employs - staff
provides - care
is a kind of - institution
is regulated by - oversight
In practice
Families and kinds
general hospitals
specialist hospitals
teaching hospitals
community hospitals
field and makeshift hospitals
historical hospitals
Identifiers
national facility code jurisdiction-specific health facility registers
Standards and regulation
Hospital licensing and inspection
Patient rights law
Health data protection
Failure modes and hazards
Going to the wrong facility in an emergency
Hospital-acquired infections
Outdated service information
Also called
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Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.hospital-group
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Identity Which hospital.
Identity and services.
Facility
Name and location.
Facility
Facility identity.
- What is the hospital name and address? provenance
- Who runs it? provenance
Services
What it offers.
Services
Services.
- Which services does it offer, including emergency care? definition
- Is the information current? boundary
Access Getting care.
Access routes matter.
Emergency
Urgent care.
Emergency
Emergency access.
- Is this an emergency needing an ambulance? boundary
- Where is the nearest emergency department? action
Planned care
Referrals.
Planned care
Planned access.
- How are patients referred? definition
- What are waiting times? measurement
Quality Ratings and safety.
Quality information must be sourced.
Ratings
Inspections.
Ratings
Inspection results.
- What did the latest inspection find? provenance
- When was it? provenance
Infection control
Safety.
Infection
Infection control.
- What infection control data are published? measurement
- Are there visiting restrictions? boundary
Patients Rights and visits.
Patients have rights.
Rights
Patient rights.
Rights
Patient rights.
- Which patient rights apply? boundary
- How can complaints be made? action
Visiting
Rules.
Visiting
Visiting rules.
- What are visiting hours and rules? definition
- Is parking or transport available? definition
What the second pass must settle
- Should hospitals be instances linked to registers?
- How should service lists be kept current?
- How should quality ratings be sourced?