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Practice and Hospital Economics [PDF]

Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, 2006
There has been a significant effort over the past 10 years to attempt to control the rate of increase in the cost of medical care. However, as is true of any economic system, there are multiple stakeholders involved and often competing motivations. The single largest source of medical inflation is the cost of pharmaceuticals; however, this topic is not
Senagore AJ.
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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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Cholecystectomy and Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs): Patient Classification and Hospital Reimbursement in 11 European Countries [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2014
Background As part of the EuroDRG project, researchers from eleven countries (i.e. Austria, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Spain) compared how their Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) systems deal with
Gerli Paat-Ahi , Ain Aaviksoo, Maria Świderek   +2 more
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An Algorithm for Improving Hospital Performance Measures: A Department-centered Approach

Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2018
In recent years, it has become increasingly important to improve efficiency and economic balance in hospitals. The department chairperson (or Chair) contends with a production function consisting of inputs and outcomes, rife with managerial constraints ...
Ziv Gil, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg
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Simple signature/countersignature shared-accountability quality improvement initiative to improve reliability of blood sample collection: an essential clinical task

BMJ Open Quality, 2022
Background Timely lab results are important to clinical decision-making and hospital flow. However, at our institution, unreliable blood sample collection for patients with central venous access jeopardised this outcome and created staff dissatisfaction ...
Michael Koch, Chenwei Wu, Chatty O'Keeffe, Jesse Sanford, Jean Hagel, Shelia Childs, Gary Evers, Julie Melbourne, Collyn West, Paul B Cornia   +9 more
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Designing an Operational Model for Implementing Resistance Economics in Hospitals of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

Armaghane Danesh Bimonthly Journal, 2021
Background & aim: The resistance economy is proposed for the first time by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran and includes 24 clauses.
H Zarei, R Ostvar, H Soltani
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Determinants of Hospital Inpatient Costs in the Iranian Elderly: A Micro-costing Analysis [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2020
Objectives Aging is assumed to be accompanied by greater health care expenditures. The objective of this retrospective, bottom-up micro-costing study was to identify and analyze the variables related to increased health care costs for the elderly from ...
Ebrahim Hazrati, Zahra Meshkani, Saeed Husseini Barghzan, Sanaz Zargar Balaye Jame, Nader Markazi-Moghaddam   +4 more
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New Integrated Information System for Pusan National University Hospital [PDF]

Healthcare Informatics Research, 2011
ObjectivesThis study presents the information system for Pusan National University Hospital (PNUH), evaluates its performance qualitatively, and conducts economic analysis.MethodsInformation system for PNUH was designed by component-based development and
Hyung Hoi Kim, Kyung-Won Cho, Hye Sook Kim, Ju-Sim Kim, Jung Hyun Kim, Sang Pil Han, Chun Bok Park, Seok Kim, Young Moon Chae   +8 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
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Structures d’information et décision en équipe dans le système de distribution des soins [PDF]

, 1976
In this paper one proposes a methodological framework for the study of information and decision structures in hospital management. With a particular reference to the control of nursing care demand and supply, various information and decision schemes are ...
Haurie, Alain
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