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Oeconomic thinking – efficient healing: health oeconomy as a new topic in medical faculties

GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung, 2005
Health economics is the science of efficiency in health care systems. The following paper presents some basic concepts of this new subject of medical curricula. It is based on the experience of the University of Heidelberg where all medical students have
Fleßa, Steffen
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Modular design and supervisory control for enhanced economic resilience in continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Conventional continuous plants use fixed‐capacity equipment, resulting in high capital risk and suboptimal performance under fluctuating demands. To address these, this study proposes an integrated framework for modular process design and supervisory control capable of adapting to demand uncertainty for long‐term economic viability.
T. Asrav, M. Alvarado‐Morales, G. Sin
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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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Integrating Reinforcement Learning With Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Real‐Time Clinical Decision Support in Dynamic Healthcare Environments

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A hybrid Reinforcement Learning–Explainable AI framework integrates SHAP and LIME explanations directly into a Deep Q‐Network inference loop for real‐time ICU decision support. Trained on 18 142 mechanically ventilated stays from the eICU database, the system attains 93.0% decision accuracy, 20% fewer errors than RL alone, and a 91% clinician trust ...
Jannatul Ferdaus Disha, MD Faiaz Zaman Dehan, Kazi Md. Tanvir Anzum   +2 more
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The Effect of Specialist Residency program on the Performance Indicators of Emergency Department of Hospitals in Tehran: An Interrupted Time Series Study

پژوهش‌های سلامت‌محور, 2020
The Effect of Specialist Residency Program on the Performance Indicators of Emergency Departments in Hospitals Affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences: An Interrupted Time Series Study   Rabeti Morteza1, Tajvar Maryam2, Askari Maryam Sadat3 ...
Morteza Rabeti, Maryam Tajvar, Maryam Sadat Askari, Marita Mohammadshahi, Ebrahim Jaffari Poyan   +4 more
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The future of health economics: The potential of behavioral and experimental economics

Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2015
Health care systems around the globe are facing great challenges. The demand for health care is increasing due to the continuous development of new medical technologies, changing demographics, increasing income levels, and greater expectations from ...
Fredrik Hansen, Anders Anell, Ulf-G Gerdtham, Carl Hampus Lyttkens   +3 more
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The Collective Power of Bacteria as a Blueprint for Emergent Intelligence

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Small cells, powerful collectives. Bacteria demonstrate how sophisticated behaviors can emerge from many simple individuals working together. We explore the remarkable world of bacterial communities and the mechanisms that underpin their complex emergent behaviors, enabling impressive adaptability, robustness, and responsiveness to changing ...
Johanna A. Blee, Thomas E. Gorochowski, Sabine Hauert   +2 more
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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Karin Alvåsen, Helena Hansson   +3 more
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
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Using information literacy to teach medical entrepreneurship and health care economics

Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2019
Objective: Entrepreneurship and innovative product design in health care requires expertise in finding and evaluating diverse types of information from a multitude of sources to accomplish a number of tasks, such as securing regulatory approval ...
Alexander J. Carroll, Shelby J. Hallman, Kelly A. Umstead, James McCall, Andrew J. DiMeo   +4 more
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