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PLoS ONE, 2022 As of late 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge to health care systems worldwide. Rapidly rising local COVID-19 incidence rates, result in demand for high hospital and intensive care bed capacities on short notice.
Benedict J Lünsmann +18 more
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Geographic distribution of hospital beds throughout China: a county-level econometric analysis [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2016 Geographical distribution of healthcare resources is an important dimension of healthcare access. Little work has been published on healthcare resource allocation patterns in China, despite public equity concerns.Using national data from 2043 counties, this paper investigates the geographic distribution of hospital beds at the county level in China. We
Pan, Jay, Shallcross, David
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Phase-Type Survival Trees to Model a Delayed Discharge and Its Effect in a Stroke Care Unit
Algorithms, 2022 The problem of hospital patients’ delayed discharge or ‘bed blocking’ has long been a challenge for healthcare managers and policymakers. It negatively affects the hospital performance metrics and has other severe consequences for the healthcare system ...
Lalit Garg +6 more
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Assessing equity in the distribution of hospital beds: evidence from northern Iran [PDF]
Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare, 2019 Objective: To assess equity in the distribution of hospital beds in northern Iran. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we investigated the degree of equity by using 2016 census data from 16 cities in Guilan province.
Javad Ebrahimzadeh +7 more
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Assessing Equality In Hospital Bed Distribution In North Sumatra Of June 2022
International Journal of Health and Pharmaceutical (IJHP), 2023 At the end of 2019, an outbreak of a respiratory infection occurred in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, People's Republic of China. The disease was later named Coronavirus disease 19/COVID-19, becoming a global pandemic. The unpreparedness of the government and health facilities in dealing with the presence of this pandemic exposed problems in the ...
Karina Datitha Alodia Br Kaban +2 more
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Distribution of hospital beds across Saudi Arabia from 2015 to 2019: a cross-sectional study
Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2022 Background: Adequate access to health care systems is considered a basic human right. Therefore, it is important that health care services be delivered to those who need them most in the most efficient manner possible. Aims: We evaluated the distribution of hospital beds across Saudi Arabia from 2015 to 2019 to assess inequalities in hospital resource ...
Taghreed, Hawsawi, Noura, Abouammoh
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BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background To increase bed capacity and resources, hospitals have postponed elective surgeries, although the financial impact of this decision is unknown.
Joseph E. Tonna +9 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.We have established a humanized orthotopic patient‐derived xenograft (Hu‐oPDX) mouse model of high‐grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) that recapitulates human tumor–immune interactions. Using combined anti‐PD‐L1/anti‐CD73 immunotherapy, we demonstrate the model's improved biological relevance and enhanced translational value for preclinical ...
Luka Tandaric +10 more
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Social democratic government and spatial distribution of health care facilities: The case of hospital beds in Germany [PDF]
The European Journal of Public Health, 2001 In this paper, the hypothesis that the spatial distribution of hospital beds is more even in countries with socialist or social democratic governments than in countries with conservative or Christian democratic governments was tested. To avoid the confounding influences of historical and institutional differences between countries, we used the Federal ...
Bennema-Broos, M +2 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Beyond its role in immune evasion, this study identified that CD47 drives tumor‐intrinsic signaling in non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Transcriptomic profiling and functional studies revealed that CD47 regulates cell adhesion, migration, and metastasis through an ERK–EMT signaling axis.
Asa P.Y. Lau +8 more
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