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New opportunities for bioscaffold‐enabled spinal cord injury repair

open access: yesBMEMat, EarlyView.
Schematic illustration of bioscaffolds for spinal cord injury repair. We summarize the effects of bioscaffold properties on SCI repair, highlight different types of bioscaffolds, various fabrication strategies, and in vivo transformations for the clinical development of SCI‐repairing bioscaffolds.
Xiaoqing Qi   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The SWOT Analysis of the Romanian Health Care System [PDF]

open access: yes
The complexity of the problem the national health care program confronts with and which must be solved through the measures of the respective reform lead to a SWOT analysis, particularly for this reform.
Claudiu CICEA, Cristian BUSU
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From Volume to Value: Transforming Health Care Payment and Delivery Systems to Improve Quality and Reduce Costs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Summarizes presentations on the changes in payment systems and organizational structures required to provide higher-quality health care, including episode-of-care payments for major acute episodes.

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Toward an SDG‐Based Typology for US Nonprofits

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an emerging institutional logic that nonprofits must navigate alongside existing sector‐specific frameworks. Drawing on institutional logics and organizational hybridity theories, we examine how nonprofits incorporate SDGs into their missions and what this reveals about managing institutional ...
Dominik S. Meier, Elizabeth Searing
wiley   +1 more source

The determinants of hospital costs : an analysis of Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yes
The problem of financing health care in poor countries has become increasingly acute. In the context of health financing, hospitals are viewed with skepticism as facilities are not cost-effective in the provision of primary health care services.
Bitran-Dicowsky, Ricardo   +1 more
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Sentara Healthcare: A Case Study Series on Disruptive Innovation Within Integrated Health Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Examines how integration and ties with health plans, physicians, and hospitals helped protect against revenue volatility and enabled experimentation; factors that facilitate integration; innovative practices; lessons learned; and policy ...
Rosie O'Donnell, Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
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Social‐Therapeutic Custodial Treatment of Individuals Who Committed Sexual Offences: A Comprehensive Controlled and Multicentred Evaluation

open access: yesCriminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background In‐prison treatment of persons who committed sexual offences often showed nonsignificant, small or sometimes even negative effects, particularly in sexual recidivism. Various reasons for this situation seem to be relatively short and standardised group‐based programmes, isolated implementations and insufficient attention to context ...
Friedrich Lösel, Eva Link, Lena C. Carl
wiley   +1 more source

Titin Is Present in the Elastic Tethers That Connect Separating Anaphase Chromosomes in Crane‐Fly Spermatocytes

open access: yesCytoskeleton, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Elastic tethers connect telomeres of separating chromosomes in anaphase of animal cells. Immunofluorescence staining of titin in crane‐fly spermatocytes, using 4 different antibodies, shows that the giant elastic protein titin seems to be a component of mitotic tethers: titin “strands” extend between separating chromosomes, connecting their ...
Demetra Economopoulos   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Different Prioritisation Policies on Waiting Times: A Comparative Analysis of Norway and Scotland [PDF]

open access: yes
We compare the distributional consequences of two different waiting times initiatives. The primary focus of Scotland’s recent waiting time reforms has been on reducing maximum waiting times through the imposition of high profile national targets.
Askildsen, Jan Erik   +4 more
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Spatial Interdependence of Hospital Efficiency in Germany [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The introduction of the hospital reimbursement based on diagnosis related groups (DRG) in 2004 has been a conspicuous attempt to increase hospital efficiency in Germany.
Herwartz, Helmut, Strumann, Christoph
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