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Economics of Preventing Hospital Infection
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004 The economics of preventing hospital-acquired infections is most often described in general terms. The underlying concepts and mechanisms are rarely made explicit but should be understood for research and policy-making.
Nicholas Graves
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Hospital Economics of the Hospitalist [PDF]
Health Services Research, 2003 Objective To determine the economic impact on the hospital of a hospitalist program and to develop insights into the relative economic importance of variables such as reductions in mean length of stay and cost, improvements in throughput (patients discharged per unit time), payer methods of reimbursement, and the cost of the hospitalist program.Data ...
Douglas Gregory +2 more
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20 years of Nordic comparative health economics research
Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2023 Nordic comparative health economics research stands out internationally both by its access to excellent patient data and its long-time commitment to rigorous analyses.
Sverre A.C. +2 more
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Economic Consequences of Hospital Closures
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 Hospitals anchor much of US health care and receive a third of all medical spending, including various subsidies. Nevertheless, some become insolvent and exit the market. Research has documented subsequent access problems; however, less is understood about broader implications.
Michael R. Richards, Diane Alexander
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Global Public Health, 2023 This article ethnographically traces the performance of data collection and analysis for a cancer cost-of-illness study in an East Indian Cancer hospital.
Robert D. Smith
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The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2018 We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study, and hospitalization data linked to credit reports. For non-elderly adults with health insurance, hospital admissions increase out-of-pocket medical spending, unpaid medical bills, and ...
Dobkin, Carlos +3 more
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Determinants of Hospital Inpatient Costs in the Iranian Elderly: A Micro-costing Analysis [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2020 Objectives Aging is assumed to be accompanied by greater health care expenditures. The objective of this retrospective, bottom-up micro-costing study was to identify and analyze the variables related to increased health care costs for the elderly from ...
Ebrahim Hazrati +4 more
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Cholecystectomy and Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs): Patient Classification and Hospital Reimbursement in 11 European Countries [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2014 Background As part of the EuroDRG project, researchers from eleven countries (i.e. Austria, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Spain) compared how their Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) systems deal with
Gerli Paat-Ahi +2 more
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An Algorithm for Improving Hospital Performance Measures: A Department-centered Approach
Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2018 In recent years, it has become increasingly important to improve efficiency and economic balance in hospitals. The department chairperson (or Chair) contends with a production function consisting of inputs and outcomes, rife with managerial constraints ...
Ziv Gil, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg
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Practice and Hospital Economics [PDF]
Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, 2006 There has been a significant effort over the past 10 years to attempt to control the rate of increase in the cost of medical care. However, as is true of any economic system, there are multiple stakeholders involved and often competing motivations. The single largest source of medical inflation is the cost of pharmaceuticals; however, this topic is not
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