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A Model of the Costs of Community and Nosocomial Pediatric Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections in Canadian Hospitals

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2013
BACKGROUND: Approximately one in 10 hospitalized patients will acquire a nosocomial infection (NI) after admission to hospital, of which 71% are due to respiratory viruses, including the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
Philip Jacobs, Douglas Lier, Katherine Gooch, Katharina Buesch, Michelle Lorimer, Ian Mitchell   +5 more
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Analyzing the determinants of willingness-to-pay values for testing the validity of the contingent valuation method. Application to home care compared to hospital care [PDF]

The contingent valuation (CV) method is an attractive approach for comparing home care to hospital care in which the only difference is patients' well-being during the treatment process and not health outcomes.
Magali Morelle, Marie-Odile Carrère, Nathalie Havet, Raphaël Remonnay   +3 more
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A call for ethical, equitable, and effective artificial intelligence to improve care for all people with epilepsy: A roadmap. A report by the ILAE Global Advocacy Council and Big Data Commission

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is upon us. It will inevitably form a central component of epilepsy workflows and patient advocacy. Therefore, it behooves us as health care providers to ride the crest of this wave and guide its direction for the benefit of all people with epilepsy.
Colin B. Josephson, Sandor Beniczky, Spiros Denaxas, Akio Ikeda, Lara Jehi, Angelina Kakooza Mwesige, Nathalie Jette, Gabriel Davis Jones, Philippe Ryvlin, Arjune Sen, Chahnez Charfi Triki, Gabriella Waters, Alla Guekht, J. Helen Cross   +13 more
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Effectiveness of a Structured Nutrition Education Course for Caregivers of Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes in Improving Glycemic and Dietary Outcomes: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol

Open Access Journal of Clinical Trials, 2021
Nicholas Bari Ndahura,1,2 Judith Munga,1 Judith Kimiywe,1 Ezekiel Mupere3 1Department of Food, Nutrition, and Dietetics, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya; 2Department of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda ...
Ndahura NB, Munga J, Kimiywe J, Mupere E
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Economies of scope in Norwegian hospital production - A DEA analysis [PDF]

From 2002 the Norwegian hospital sector is to be transferred from county to state ownership, organised through regional semiautonomous companies. A major motivation for the reform is to allow for more specialised hospital production.
Kittelsen, Sverre A.C., Magnussen, Jon
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Economic studies showing positive competition effects on hospital performance fully controlled for the factors cited by recent critics [PDF]

, 2012
Criticisms have been made of recent influential studies that show improving performance in hospitals operating in more competitive environments compared with hospitals that have a local monopoly on care.
Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair   +3 more
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Trajectories of quality of life, anxiety and depressive symptomatology, and health‐related work productivity after first seizure events

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective First seizure events are common and may exert an immediate and profound impact on people's lives. Less understood are their long‐term consequences. This prospective, longitudinal study aimed to measure and compare psychosocial and health‐related work productivity trajectories following first seizure events of various etiologies ...
Emma Foster, Zhibin Chen, Alison Conquest, David N. Vaughan, Chris Tailby, Patrick W. Carney, Wendyl D’Souza, Hue Mun Au Yong, John‐Paul Nicolo, Jacob Pellinen, Danny Liew, Terence J. O’Brien, Patrick Kwan, Zanfina Ademi   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health care costs matter: a review of nutrition economics – is there a role for nutritional support to reduce the cost of medical health care?

Nutrition and Dietary Supplements, 2017
Jane K Naberhuis,1 Vivienne N Hunt,2 Jvawnna D Bell,3 Jamie S Partridge,3 Scott Goates,3 Mark JC Nuijten4 1Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; 2Abbott Nutrition, Research and Development ...
Naberhuis JK, Hunt VN, Bell JD, Partridge JS, Goates S, Nuijten MJC   +5 more
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HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT AND NURSING MANAGEMENT IN THE LIGHT OF THE LEAN PHILOSOPHY IN HEALTHCARE

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2019
This article aimed to reflect on hospital management and nursing management based on the Lean Philosophy in Healthcare. It was concluded that hospitals and their most numerous health professionals, the nursing team, may benefit from the application of ...
Thaís Oliveira da Silva, Livia Minuzzi Vieira, Tamires Souza Lemos, Fernando Perdoná Sant’Anna, Roberta Seron Sanches, Maria Regina Martinez   +5 more
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Circular statistics in Stata, revisited [PDF]

Circular data are a large class of directional data, which are of interest to scientists in many fields, including biologists (movements of migrating animals), meteorologists (winds), geologists (directions of joints and faults), and geomorphologists ...
Nicholas J. Cox
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