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Subarachnoid Hemorrhage “Fast Track”: A Health Economics and Health Care Redesign Approach for Early Selected Hospital Discharge

Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 2020
Objective To determine whether earlier hospital discharge is feasible and safe in selected patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) using an outpatient “fast-track” protocol.
Christina I. Collins, T. Hasan, L. Mooney, Jessica L. Talbot, Amanda L. Fouraker, K. Nelson, Maryann Ohanian, Stephanie L. Bonnett, R. Tawk, Lisa M. Nordan, D. Hodge, Robert S. Kaplan, Benjamin L. Thiemann, Meredith Karney, W. Freeman   +14 more
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Health Economics

, 2023
This Element examines economic perspectives on improving quality and safety in healthcare. Though competition is generally recognised by economists as an important driver of improvement, it may not work so straightforwardly in healthcare – in part ...
Andrew Street, Nils Gutacker
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A nudge intervention to improve hand hygiene compliance in the hospital

Internal and Emergency Medicine, 2022
Hand hygiene among professionals plays a crucial role in preventing healthcare‐associated infections, yet poor compliance in hospital settings remains a lasting reason for concern.
F. Elia, Fabrizio Calzavarini, P. Bianco, R. G. Vecchietti, Antonio Franco Macor, A. D'orazio, A. Dragonetti, Alessandra D'Alfonso, Laura Belletrutti, Mara Floris, F. Bert, Vincenzo Crupi, Franco Aprà   +12 more
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Economics of Minimalist Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Results From the 3M-TAVR Economic Study

Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions, 2022
Background: The 3M-TAVR trial (3M-Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement) demonstrated the feasibility and safety of next-day hospital discharge after transfemoral TAVR with implementation of a minimalist pathway.
Neel M. Butala, D. Wood, Haiyan Li, Khaja M. Chinnakondepalli, S. Lauck, J. Sathananthan, J. Cairns, E. Magnuson, Madeleine Barker, J. Webb, Robert Welsh, A. Cheung, J. Ye, J. Velianou, H. Wijeysundera, A. Asgar, S. Kodali, V. Thourani, D. Cohen   +18 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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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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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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Impact of COVID-19 and comorbidities on health and economics: Focus on developing countries and India

Diabetes & metabolic syndrome, 2020
Background and aims Presence of comorbidities in patients with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have often been associated with increased in-hospital complications and mortality.
A. Singh, Anoop Misra
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