Hospital management of community-acquired pneumonia in Malta [PDF]
, 2012 Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a common diagnosis requiring hospital admission and a leading cause of death worldwide. No local guideline is currently available for the management of CAP.
Callus, Roberta +3 more
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Patient trajectories in a Norwegian unit of municipal emergency beds
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2017 Objective: The Coordination reform was implemented in Norway from 2012, aiming at seamless patient trajectories. All municipalities are required to establish emergency care beds (MEBs) to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
Heidi Nilsen +2 more
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Evaluating the Performance of Inpatient Wards in Hospitals Affiliated with Birjand University of Medical Sciences Using the Pabon-Lasso Model in the Years before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
Rāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat, 2023 Background: Evaluating the performance of hospitals will increase effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of services provided and improves responding to the customer.
Asiyeh Mahmoodi +2 more
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Core components for effective infection prevention and control programmes: new WHO evidence-based recommendations [PDF]
, 2017 Health care-associated infections (HAI) are a major public health problem with a significant impact on morbidity, mortality and quality of life. They represent also an important economic burden to health systems worldwide.
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A Start to finish guide to opening a bed & breakfast: The business plan.
, 2010 Background Beds and breakfast are the small business component of the hotel industry. Like all types of small businesses, many fail due to poor planning or misguided management. As more new entrepreneurs enter the market due to the decline of the economy
Fredette, Ellen A.
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Stronger instruments and refined covariate balance in an observational study of the effectiveness of prompt admission to intensive care units [PDF]
, 2020 Instrumental variable methods, subject to appropriate identification assumptions, enable consistent estimation of causal effects in the presence of unobserved confounding. Near–far matching has been proposed as one analytic method to improve inference by
Grieve, R +3 more
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بیمارستان, 2015 Background: The Pabon Lasso graphical Model is a method to determine hospital efficacy as one of the most important part of health system in developing countries.
Abolfazli Mohammadbeig +5 more
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International Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2019 The aim of this study was to analyze the bed utilization performance of hospital departments in Turkey with grey relational method. Grey relational analysis was used to determine the bed utılization performance levels of surgery and internal clinics in ...
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Impact of neonatal intensive care bed configuration on rates of late-onset bacterial sepsis and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization [PDF]
, 2015 OBJECTIVES: Infections cause significant morbidity and mortality in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The association between nursery design and nosocomial infections has not been delineated. We hypothesized that rates of colonization by methicillin-
Burnham, Carey-Ann D +6 more
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Use of simulation to investigate resourcing priorities and bed use in generic models of elective and emergency clinical pathways [PDF]
Objectives - to assess whether alternative methods of prioritising patients affects length of stay and bed use in simulation models of elective and emergency care pathways Design - generic elective and emergency care pathways were modelled using process
Allen, Michael +2 more
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