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Performance-based contracting: case-study for non-profit hospitals in Uganda [PDF]

Background: Performance-based contracting (PBC) and similar approaches to tie funding to measured performance have become major characteristics of innovative financing mechanisms. The World Bank and Uganda's Ministry of Health pilot tested PBC in five
Ssengooba, Freddie Peter
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Health Care Waste Management Practices in Public and Private Sector Hospitals

Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College, 2014
Background: To assess the existing health care waste management practices in public and private sector hospitals of Bahawalpur City. Methods: In this cross sectional descriptive study all private hospitals of Bahawalpur City and 24 public sector sites ...
Samina Badar
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Association between hospital ownership and patient selection, management, and outcomes after carotid endarterectomy or carotid artery stenting

BMC Surgery
Background This study analyses the association between hospital ownership and patient selection, treatment, and outcome of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) or carotid artery stenting (CAS).
Andreas Kuehnl, Michael Kallmayer, Bianca Bohmann, Vanessa Lohe, Rebecca Moser, Shamsun Naher, Felix Kirchhoff, Hans-Henning Eckstein, Christoph Knappich   +8 more
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ANK1 and EPB41 Variants and the Risk of Steroid‐Induced Osteonecrosis

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective Steroid‐induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head (SONFH) is a refractory skeletal disorder influenced by genetic and environmental factors. However, conclusive pathogenic genetic evidence remains elusive due to the limited exploration of rare damaging variants. In this study, we aimed to identify rare variants associated with SONFH.
Shengbao Chen, Xianmin Zhu, Zhongzhong Chen, Wei Chen, Hussam Alkaissi, Zeng Zhang, Yun Gao, Junhui Yin, Xiangtian Yu, Qiong Fu, Youshui Gao, Zhenzhong Zhu, Qianying Cai, Pengwei Zhang, Weibin Chen, Xin Zhao, Xiaojin Wu, Karel Pacak, Dongxu Jin, Chunde Bao, Zhengping Zhuang, Changqing Zhang   +21 more
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Does Competition Improve Public Hospitals' Efficiency? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in the English National Health Service [PDF]

This paper uses a difference-in-difference style estimation strategy to test separately the impact of competition from public sector and private sector hospitals on the efficiency of public hospitals.
Zack Cooper, Stephen Gibbons, Alistair McGuire, Simon Jones   +3 more
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Costs and quality of services in public hospitals in Zimbabwe : implications for hospital reform [PDF]

Hospitals come under the focus of health planners and policy makers because they invariably consume large and increasing amounts of health care resources and performance is commonly believed to fall short of that possible.
Hongoro, Charles
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The Effect of Magnet Characteristics of Public and Private Hospitals on Their Technical Performance

Sağlık ve Hemşirelik Yönetimi Dergisi
Aim: This study aimed to determine the magnet hospital characteristics of public and private hospitals, to measure their technical performance and to determine the effect of magnet characteristics on their technical performance.
Semih Islıcık, Emine Orhaner
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Identifying Systemic Lupus Erythematosus From Serum Proteomic Profiles Using Machine Learning and Genetic Risk Stratification

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective Proteome‐wide risk models for lupus remain underexplored. We developed classification models to identify lupus from serum proteomic profiles. Methods Patients with lupus and individuals with other autoimmune diseases in the UK Biobank were included.
Mehmet Hocaoǧlu, Jishnu Das, Amr H. Sawalha   +2 more
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How Do Hospitals Respond to Price Changes? [PDF]

This paper investigates whether hospitals respond in profit-maximizing ways to changes in diagnosis-specific prices determined by Medicare's Prospective Payment System and other public and private insurers.
Leemore S. Dafny
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Total quality management in accredited New South Wales hospitals : a public/private comparison

, 1997
Analysis of data collected in a 1994–95 survey of accredited New South Wales hospitals examined the adoption of key elements of total quality management practice in the public and private sectors.
Bartlett, Mark, Dixon, Kathleen A. (R7917), Johnson, Amanda (R7917), Hatcher, Deborah (R7787)   +3 more
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