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An Evaluation Model of Computer Audit Tools to Assess Hospital Data Gaps [PDF]

مجله علوم پزشکی صدرا
Introduction: Accounting software constitutes a critical tool for financial managers. This study was conducted to develop an evaluation model for computer audit tools aimed at assessing data gaps in hospitals.Methods: This mixed-methods research was ...
Fatemeh Khodadad Hatkehposhti, Reza Fallah, Hamid Reza Gholam nia Roshan, Kaveh Azinfar   +3 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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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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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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Value of improving patient safety: health economic considerations for rapid response systems–a rapid review of the literature and expert round table

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives Failure to rescue deteriorating patients in hospital is a well-researched topic. We aimed to explore the impact of safer care on health economic considerations for clinicians, providers and policymakers.Design We undertook a rapid review of ...
Dyfrig A Hughes, Emily A Holmes, Christian Subbe, Cor Kalkman, John Welch, Sally Lewis, Ralph So, Sumeshni Tranka   +7 more
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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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Hospital Economics of the Hospitalist [PDF]

Health Services Research, 2003
Objective To determine the economic impact on the hospital of a hospitalist program and to develop insights into the relative economic importance of variables such as reductions in mean length of stay and cost, improvements in throughput (patients discharged per unit time), payer methods of reimbursement, and the cost of the hospitalist program.Data ...
Douglas, Gregory, Walter, Baigelman, Ira B, Wilson   +2 more
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Measures to eradicate multidrug-resistant organism outbreaks: How much does it cost? [PDF]

, 2015
This study aimed to assess the economic burden of infection control measures that succeeded in eradicating multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in emerging epidemic contexts in hospital settings.
Birgand, GJC, Bourigault, C, Holmes, A, Iucet, JC, Lepelletier, D, Moore, L, Vella, V   +6 more
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Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 216:Choice of contracts in the British National Health Service: an empirical study [PDF]

, 2008
Following major reforms of the British National Health Service (NHS) in 1990, the roles of purchasing and providing health services were separated, with the relationship between purchasers and providers governed by contracts.
Chalkley, Martin, McVicar, Duncan
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