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RoboChain: A Secure Data-Sharing Framework for Human-Robot Interaction

, 2018
Robots have potential to revolutionize the way we interact with the world around us. One of their largest potentials is in the domain of mobile health where they can be used to facilitate clinical interventions.
Ferrer, Eduardo Castelló, Hardjono, Thomas, Pentland, Alex, Rudovic, Ognjen   +3 more
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Cost of illness for outpatients attending public and private hospitals in Bangladesh

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2016
BackgroundA central aim of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is protection for all against the cost of illness. In a low income country like Bangladesh the cost burden of health care in tertiary facilities is likely to be significant for most citizens ...
Md Sadik Pavel, Sayan Chakrabarty, J. Gow   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals [PDF]

This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in Not-For-Profit (NFP) or private hospitals, even controlling for a number ...
Clark, Andrew E., Milcent, Carine
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Healthcare waste management in selected government and private hospitals in Southeast Nigeria

, 2016
Objective To assess healthcare workers' involvement in healthcare waste management in public and private hospitals. Methods Validated questionnaires ( n  = 660) were administered to randomly selected healthcare workers from selected private hospitals ...
A. Oli, Callistus Chibuike Ekejindu, D. Adje, I. Ezeobi, O. Ejiofor, C. Ibeh, Chika F. Ubajaka   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Genome Sequencing in 19 Families With Bladder Exstrophy and Epispadias Complex Indicates Involvement of the ADGR‐Gene Family

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bladder exstrophy and epispadias complex (BEEC) is one of the most severe congenital malformations of the urogenital tract, significantly impacting continence, sexual function, and renal function. To date, the only recurrent genetic aberration identified is the 22q.11.2 microduplication, but several candidate regions and genes including ...
Agneta Nordenskjöld, Samara Alm, Jesper Eisfeldt, Jia Cao, Magnus Anderberg, Gillian Barker, Hans Matsson, Gundela Holmdahl, Anna Lindstrand, Kristina Lagerstedt‐Robinson   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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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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Does Higher Cost Inefficiency Imply Higher Profit Inefficiency? - Evidence on Inefficiency and Ownership of German Hospitals [PDF]

This paper investigates cost and profit efficiency of German hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor outputs of ...
Annika Herr, Boris Augurzky, Hendrik Schmitz   +2 more
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Divided by choice? Private providers, patient choice and hospital sorting in the English National Health Service [PDF]

, 2017
A common reform used to increase consumer choice and competition in public services has been to allow private providers to compete with public incumbents.
Beckert, Walter, Kelly, E.
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