The various components of the hospital includes:
1. Clinical such as Outpatient, Inpatient, emergency.
2. Diagnostic Services such as laboratory, radiological, pathology etc.
3. Administrative including finance, security, ambulance services etc.
4. Teaching, training and Research.
5. Miscellaneous – Ambulance, CSSD, Laundry, Mortuary etc. The performance of all these services is dependent on the cooperation and coordination of various components within the system. The individual subsystems have their independent goals for providing best patient care. It is can be inferred that hospitals are highly complex, social, economic and scientific organization whose function is to provide comprehensive healthcare.
