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Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
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Delayed chest wall abscess after blunt trauma chest leading to multi-organ failure: A case report

Trauma Case Reports
Blunt Trauma Chest (BTC) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in trauma patients. Although rib fractures, haemothorax, pneumothorax and lung contusions are often found in tandem in BTC, delayed necrotising soft tissue infection (NSTI) without any
Binayak Deb, V.M. Balasubramani, Ram Varaham, Ramesh Vaidyanathan   +3 more
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Assessing Cognitive Functioning in Children With Brain Tumors: Interaction of Neighborhood Social Determinants of Health and Neurological Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background This study investigated how neighborhood‐level social determinants of health (SDOH), including redlining and neurological risk, interact to influence cognitive outcomes in children treated for brain tumors (CTBT). Methods A retrospective chart review of 161 CTBT aged 5–17 was conducted.
Alannah R. Srsich, Manali Zope, Peter M. Fantozzi, Cassie N. Kline, Iris Paltin, Matthew C. Hocking   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in hospital efficiency after privatization [PDF]

Health Care Management Science, 2012
We investigated the effects of privatization on hospital efficiency in Germany. To do so, we obtained boot-strapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) efficiency scores in the first stage of our analysis and subsequently employed a difference-in-difference matching approach within a panel regression framework.
Tiemann, Oliver, Schreyögg, Jonas
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Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook, Veerain Gupta, Nicholas J. Clark, Vijay Rings, Lauren E. Corona, Douglass B. Clayton, Daniel J. Benedetti   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative assessment of rational use of drugs in public and private hospital pharmacies: a multicenter cross-sectional study using INRUD/WHO prescribing indicators

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
Background Specific actions to promote the RUD in public and private hospitals are highly needed. The current study aimed to assess RUD based on World Health Organization (WHO) prescribing indicators in selected public and private hospitals in Khartoum ...
Adil A. Mahmoud, Asim Ahmed Elnour, Ali Awadallah Saeed, Vineetha Menon, Shereen A. M. Elhag, Omkalthoum Fathi G, Mohamed Ayoup M, Hussam Abdulhadi M A, Ahmed Sameer E, Mohamed Tahaa E, Semira Abdi Beshir, Nadia Al Mazrouei, Sami Fatehi Abdalla, Fahad T. Alsulami, Yousef Saeed Alqarni, Abuelnor Mohammed   +15 more
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Lower access to risk stratification tests and drugs, and worse survival of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia patients treated in public as compared to private hospitals in Brazil: A retrospective analysis of the Brazilian registry of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

eJHaem, 2022
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) has a highly variable clinical course. In addition to biological factors, socioeconomic factors and health system characteristics may influence CLL outcome.
Verena Pfister, Fernanda de Morais Marques, Flavia Parra, Mihoko Yamamoto, Matheus Vescovi Gonçalves, Leila Perobelli, Valeria Buccheri, Raphael Bandeira, Sergio Fortier, Alita Azevedo, Rodrigo Santucci, Marcelo Bellesso, Laura Fogliatto, Glaciano Ribeiro, Germison Silva Lopes, Maura Ikoma, Vera P. Figueiredo, Irene Gyongyver H Lorand Metze, Carlos Sérgio Chiattone, Celso Arrais‐Rodrigues   +19 more
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Clustering Algorithm Reveals Dopamine‐Motor Mismatch in Cognitively Preserved Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To explore the relationship between dopaminergic denervation and motor impairment in two de novo Parkinson's disease (PD) cohorts. Methods n = 249 PD patients from Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) and n = 84 from an external clinical cohort.
Rachele Malito, Chiara Meneghini, Alice Galli, Luca Gallo, Pierfrancesco Mitrotti, Paola Dimartino, Marianna Inglese, Cinzia Zatti, Alessandro Lupini, Andrea Pilotto, Alessandro Padovani, Micol Avenali, Enza Maria Valente, Cristina Tassorelli, Silvia P. Caminiti   +14 more
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Comparação da adequação de solicitação de ecocardiograma entre hospitais público e privado Comparison of echocardiography request appropriateness between public and private hospitals

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2011
FUNDAMENTO: Buscando aprimorar a utilização dos exames de ecocardiografia, foram criados os Critérios de Adequação (CA) (Appropriateness Criteria), pela Sociedade Norte-Americana de Ecocardiografia (ASE) /Colégio Americano de Cardiologia (ACC). OBJETIVO:
Flávia Candolo Pupo Barbosa, Evandro Tinoco Mesquita, Laiz Baniziolli Barachi, Angelo Salgado, Rafael Kazuo, Maria Luiza Garcia Rosa, Claudio Tinoco Mesquita   +6 more
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Rapid growth of private hospitals in China: emerging challenges and opportunities to health sector management

The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific
Summary: China’s private hospital market has experienced rapid growth over the last decade, with private hospitals now outnumbering public hospitals by a factor of two.
Xiaoxi Zhang, Armand Zimmerman, Yanyan Zhang, Osondu Ogbuoji, Shenglan Tang   +4 more
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