Caregiver Integration During Discharge Planning for Older Adults to Reduce Resource Use: A Metaanalysis [PDF]
Objectives To determine the effect of integrating informal caregivers into discharge planning on postdischarge cost and resource use in older adults. Design A systematic review and metaanalysis of randomized controlled trials that examine the effect of ...
Rodakowski, Juleen+8 more
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Three-dimensional virtual bone bank system workflow for structural bone allograft selection: a technical report [PDF]
Structural bone allograft has been used in bone defect reconstruction during the last fifty years with acceptable results. However, allograft selection methods were based on 2-dimensional templates using X-rays.Thanks to preoperative planning platforms ...
Aponte Tinao, Luis+5 more
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Strategic planning, competition, marketing and the use of sophisticated analytic techniques are constantly being called essential to the survival of hospitals. The authors found no evidence in a sample of plans that these concepts and techniques are being widely adopted.
Seth B. Goldsmith, Roger Kropf
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Discharge planning from hospital [PDF]
Discharge planning is a routine feature of health systems in many countries. The aim of discharge planning is to reduce hospital length of stay and unplanned readmission to hospital, and to improve the co-ordination of services following discharge from hospital.This is the third update of the original review.To assess the effectiveness of planning the ...
Gonçalves-Bradley, D+4 more
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Архитектурно-планировочный анализ Демидовского заводского госпиталя: история почти 200-летней эксплуатации [PDF]
Article is devoted to history one of the first Ural medical institutions — Demidovsky factory hospital. Authors consider architectural and planning decisions, reconstruction questions, condition of hospital today.
Ananin, M. Y.+5 more
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A derivative-free approach for a simulation-based optimization problem in healthcare [PDF]
Hospitals have been challenged in recent years to deliver high quality care with limited resources. Given the pressure to contain costs,developing procedures for optimal resource allocation becomes more and more critical in this context.
Lucidi, Stefano+4 more
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Integral multidisciplinary rehabilitation treatment planning [PDF]
This paper presents a methodology to plan treatments for rehabilitation outpatients. These patients require a series of treatments by therapists from various disciplines.
Braaksma, A.+3 more
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Epidemiology, prehospital care and outcomes of patients arriving by ambulance with dyspnoea: An observational study [PDF]
Background: This study aimed to determine epidemiology and outcome for patients presenting to emergency departments (ED) with shortness of breath who were transported by ambulance.
Archer, Peter+57 more
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Using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models to predict and monitor the number of beds occupied during a SARS outbreak in a tertiary hospital in Singapore. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The main objective of this study is to apply autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models to make real-time predictions on the number of beds occupied in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, during the recent SARS outbreak.
Chen, Mark I+3 more
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Prevalence of Postpartum Family Planning Service Coverage in Selected Referral Facilities of Nepal [PDF]
Introduction: Nepal Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists jointly with the Nepalese government and with the support from the International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology has implemented an initiative to institutionalize postpartum family ...
Acharya, S+15 more
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