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Repurposing With Purpose: Treatment of Bachmann–Bupp Syndrome With Eflornithine and Implications for Other Polyaminopathies

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rare diseases impact approximately 1 in 10 people worldwide, and yet, less than 5% of all rare diseases currently have an approved treatment option available. This is due to many challenges unique to rare diseases, including small, diverse patient populations, the cost of drug development that is not proportionate to the number of patients who
Caleb P. Bupp, Elizabeth A. VanSickle, Julianne Michael, Chad R. Schultz, Kelly Nguyen, Melissa Hoefer, Surender Rajasekaran, André S. Bachmann   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Urgency/Emergency Health Processes' Modelling: A Case Study [PDF]

arXiv, 2011
The growing complexity and sophistication of the organizational information systems, and hospital ones particularly, render difficult their comprehension and, consequently, the implementation of control mechanisms that may assure, at all times, the auditability of the above mentioned systems, without having to use models.
arxiv  

Factors Associated with Emergency Room Choice Among Medicare Patients [PDF]

, 1996
Changing macroenvironmental factors have caused hospital administrators to reassess their positions across all service lines and market segments. This pilot study explores relationships among the service experience, satisfaction and future patronage ...
File, Karen M., Horwitz, Jeffrey E., Mack, Judith L., Prince, Russ Alan   +3 more
core   +1 more source

A remote hypertension management program clinical algorithm

Clinical Cardiology, Volume 45, Issue 12, Page 1147-1162, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Introduction Hypertension is the leading risk factor for death, affecting over one billion people worldwide, yet control rates are poor and stagnant. We developed a remote hypertension management program that leverages digitally transmitted home blood pressure (BP) measurements, algorithmic care pathways, and patient–navigator communications ...
Hunter Nichols, Christopher P. Cannon, Benjamin M. Scirica, Naomi D. L. Fisher   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pre-Hospital Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction Using Tele-Electrocardiography System [PDF]

arXiv, 2018
A comprehensive survey revealed that many patients of Acute Myocardial Infarction reach to the hospital so late to deliver an effective treatment. This leads to poor treatment outcome which increases the mortality rates. Multiple reasons such as lack of diagnostic facilities in the rural health care centers and absence of cardiologists in Emergency ...
arxiv  

Emergency Services [PDF]

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, 1971
James H. Brown, Michael L. Harvey
openaire   +3 more sources

Navigating the Future of Healthcare HR: Agile Strategies for Overcoming Modern Challenges [PDF]

arXiv
This study examines the challenges hospitals encounter in managing human resources and proposes potential solutions. It provides an overview of current HR practices in hospitals, highlighting key issues affecting recruitment, retention, and professional development of medical staff.
arxiv  

The Aspire Social Impact Bond: How social impact bond financing can promote positive social and economic outcomes

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract Financing human service delivery through social impact bonds (SIBs) is the subject of some critical commentary in the academic literature, but this tends to be largely theoretical rather than empirically based. This paper presents empirical evidence of how SIB financing can promote positive social and economic outcomes for governments, not‐for‐
Veronica Coram, Selina Tually, Leanne Lester, Michael Kyron, Paul Flatau, Ian Goodwin‐Smith   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Price Impact of Health Insurance [PDF]

arXiv
This paper examines the equilibrium effects of insurance contracts on healthcare markets using a mechanism design framework. A population of risk-averse agents with preferences as in Yaari (1987) face the risk of developing an illness of unknown severity, which can be treated in a competitive hospital services market at the prevailing market price ...
arxiv