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Remote Monitoring and Behavioral Economics in Managing Heart Failure in Patients Discharged From the Hospital

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2022
Key Points Question Among patients discharged after a hospitalization for heart failure, does remote monitoring and rewarding their weight and diuretic adherence reduce subsequent chances of death or rehospitalization?
D. Asch, A. Troxel, L. Goldberg, M. Tanna, Shivan J. Mehta, L. Norton, Jingsan Zhu, L. G. Iannotte, Tamar Klaiman, Yuqing Lin, L. Russell, K. Volpp   +11 more
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The Economics of a Bed Shortage: Certificate-of-Need Regulation and Hospital Bed Utilization during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2021
Certificate-of-need (CON) laws are intended to restrain health care spending by limiting the acquisition of duplicative capital and the initiation of unnecessary services.
M. Mitchell, Thomas Stratmann
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A Comparison of Grid-Connected Local Hospital Loads with Typical Backup Systems and Renewable Energy System Based Ad Hoc Microgrids for Enhancing the Resilience of the System

Energies, 2023
Extreme weather conditions and natural disasters (ND) are the main causes of power outages in the electric grid. It is necessary to strengthen the electrical power system’s resilience during these catastrophic occurrences, and microgrids may be seen as ...
Majid Ali, J. Vasquez, J. Guerrero, Yajuan Guan, S. Golestan, Jorge de la Cruz, M. A. Koondhar, B. Khan   +7 more
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A nudge intervention to improve hand hygiene compliance in the hospital

Internal and Emergency Medicine, 2022
Hand hygiene among professionals plays a crucial role in preventing healthcare‐associated infections, yet poor compliance in hospital settings remains a lasting reason for concern.
F. Elia, Fabrizio Calzavarini, Paola Bianco, R. G. Vecchietti, Antonio Franco Macor, Alessia D’Orazio, A. Dragonetti, Alessandra D’Alfonso, Laura Belletrutti, Mara Floris, F. Bert, Vincenzo Crupi, Franco Aprà   +12 more
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Health Economics

, 2023
This Element examines economic perspectives on improving quality and safety in healthcare. Though competition is generally recognised by economists as an important driver of improvement, it may not work so straightforwardly in healthcare – in part ...
Andrew Street, Nils Gutacker
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Economics of Minimalist Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Results From the 3M-TAVR Economic Study

Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions, 2022
Background: The 3M-TAVR trial (3M-Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement) demonstrated the feasibility and safety of next-day hospital discharge after transfemoral TAVR with implementation of a minimalist pathway.
Neel M. Butala, D. Wood, Haiyan Li, Khaja M. Chinnakondepalli, S. Lauck, J. Sathananthan, J. Cairns, E. Magnuson, Madeleine Barker, J. Webb, Robert Welsh, A. Cheung, J. Ye, J. Velianou, H. Wijeysundera, A. Asgar, S. Kodali, V. Thourani, D. Cohen   +18 more
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Clean Cut (adaptive, multimodal surgical infection prevention programme) for low‐resource settings: a prospective quality improvement study

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
Clean Cut is a multimodal, adaptive, checklist‐based infection prevention programme designed to improve compliance with six critical perioperative infection prevention practices. After introducing the programme at five hospitals in Ethiopia, compliance with critical infection prevention standards significantly improved and the relative risk of ...
J. A. Forrester, N. Starr, T. Negussie, D. Schaps, M. Adem, S. Alemu, D. Amenu, N. Gebeyehu, T. Habteyohannes, F. Jiru, A. Tesfaye, E. Wayessa, R. Chen, A. Trickey, S. Bitew, A. Bekele, T. G. Weiser   +16 more
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The economics of patient safety Part IV: Safety in the workplace

OECD Health Working Papers, 2021
Health care settings are inherently hazardous places, with very unpredictable and complex working environments. These hazards and risks not only result in a range of injuries and ill-health among workers but also jeopardise the safety of patients.
K. D. Bienassis, L. Slawomirski, N. Klazinga   +2 more
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A one-year hospital-based prospective COVID-19 open-cohort in the Eastern Mediterranean region: The Khorshid COVID Cohort (KCC) study

medRxiv, 2020
The COVID-19 is rapidly scattering worldwide, and the number of cases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region is rising, there is a need for immediate targeted actions.
R. Sami, Forogh Soltaninejad, B. Amra, Z. Naderi, Shaghayegh Haghjooy Javanmard, Bijan Iraj, Somayeh Haji Ahmadi, A. Shayganfar, M. Dehghan, Nilufar Khademi, N. Hosseini, M. Mortazavi, M. Mansourian, M. A. Mañanas, H. Marateb, Peyman Adibi   +15 more
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Clinical and economic benefits of hospital drug management rationalization

Journal of Medical Economics, 2022
Hospitals are health care facilities where significant drug expenditures are observed [1]. At the same time, the scale of medical and drug errors recorded in hospitals should be emphasized [2].
Urszula Religioni, Teresa Pakulska
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