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A note on challenges and opportunities for Operations Research in hospital logistics [PDF]
, 2012 Ancillary services such as those provided by logistics seem simple and straightforward, yet their role is often overlooked by hospitals. Recent studies indicate that logistics-related activities impact significantly on the quality of health care as well ...
Melo, Teresa
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Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2022 Background Concurrent opioid and stimulant use is on the rise in North America. This increasing trend of use has been observed in the general population, and among people released from prison in British Columbia (BC), who face an elevated risk of ...
Heather Palis +6 more
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Hospital Cost and Efficiency Under Per Service and Per Case Payment in Maryland: A Tale of the Carrot and the Stick [PDF]
The simultaneous operation of per case and per servicepayment systems in Maryland, and the varying levels of stringency used in setting per case rates allows comparison of effects of differing incentive structures on hospital costs.
Agnes Rupp +2 more
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Taxonomic classification of planning decisions in health care: a review of the state of the art in OR/MS [PDF]
, 2011 We provide a structured overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource capacity planning and control in health care, and a review of relevant OR/MS articles for each planning decision. The contribution of this paper is twofold.
Boucherie, Richard J. +3 more
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The business-social policy nexus: Corporate power and corporate inputs into social policy [PDF]
, 2006 It is increasingly impossible to understand and explain the shape and delivery of contemporary social policy unless we consider the role of business. Several factors have been at work here.
Farnsworth, K, Holden, C
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Crowding and Delivery of Healthcare in Emergency Departments: The European Perspective
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2009 Emergency department (ED) crowding is a multifactorial problem, resulting in increased ED waiting times, decreased patient satisfaction and deleterious domino effects on the entire hospital.
Jayaprakash, Namita +4 more
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, 1976 Newsletter for Massachusetts physicians, providing updates on the development of Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROs) as Medicare and Medicaid standards were established.Index from January 1976 through December ...
Boston University Medical Center
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Tuberculose em internamento: avaliação de custos
Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, 2003 RESUMO: A situação clínico-epidemiológica da tuberculose (TB) tem vindo a alterar-se face à co-infecção pelo VIH e à crescente incidência de casos de tuberculose multirresistente (TBMR).
Carlos Gomes, Stella Soares, Jaime Pina
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2014 Diabetes Health Care Cost and Utilization Report [PDF]
, 2016 The 2014 Diabetes Health Care Cost and Utilization Report examines how much is spent on health care for adults and children with diabetes, where those dollars are spent, and how that compares to people without diabetes.
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BMJ Paediatrics OpenBackground Despite the reduction in global under-5 mortality over the last decade, childhood deaths remain high. To combat this, there has been a shift in focus from disease-specific interventions to use of healthcare data for resource allocation ...
Tisungane Mvalo +11 more
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