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Readmission rates in not-for-profit vs. proprietary hospitals before and after the hospital readmission reduction program implementation [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) to penalize hospitals with excessive 30-day hospital readmissions of Medicare enrollees for specific conditions. This policy was aimed
Lauren E. Birmingham, Willie H. Oglesby
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Rural Hospital Mergers Increased Between 2005 and 2016—What Did Those Hospitals Look Like?

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2020
The objective of this study is to determine whether key hospital-level financial and market characteristics are associated with whether rural hospitals merge.
Dunc Williams PhD, Kristin L. Reiter PhD, George H. Pink PhD, G. Mark Holmes PhD, Paula H. Song PhD   +4 more
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The Role of the Proprietary Hospital [PDF]

Law and Contemporary Problems, 1970
Within the hospital industry' in the United States there are few issues more controversial than that concerning the role of proprietary hospitals and the consequences of their operation.2 This controversy is striking in view of the fact that in I968 only I3.2 per cent of all nonfederal, short-term general and other special hospitals were proprietary ...
Steinwald, Bruce, Neuhauser, Duncan
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Proprietary management and higher readmission rates: A correlation. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
INTRODUCTION:Reducing preventable readmissions among Medicare beneficiaries is an effective way to not only reduce the exorbitantly rising cost in healthcare but also as a measure to improve the quality of patient care.
Manish Mittal, Chih-Hsiung E Wang, Abigail H Goben, Andrew D Boyd   +3 more
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Evaluating a Widely Implemented Proprietary Deterioration Index Model among Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19

Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2021
Rationale: The Epic Deterioration Index (EDI) is a proprietary prediction model implemented in over 100 U.S. hospitals that was widely used to support medical decision-making during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The EDI has not been independently evaluated, and other proprietary models have been shown to be biased against vulnerable ...
Karandeep Singh, Thomas S. Valley, Shengpu Tang, Benjamin Y. Li, Fahad Kamran, Michael W. Sjoding, Jenna Wiens, Erkin Otles, John P. Donnelly, Melissa Y. Wei, Jonathon P. McBride, Jie Cao, Carleen Penoza, John Z. Ayanian, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu   +14 more
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External Validation of a Widely Implemented Proprietary Sepsis Prediction Model in Hospitalized Patients

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2021
The Epic Sepsis Model (ESM), a proprietary sepsis prediction model, is implemented at hundreds of US hospitals. The ESM's ability to identify patients with sepsis has not been adequately evaluated despite widespread use.To externally validate the ESM in the prediction of sepsis and evaluate its potential clinical value compared with usual care.This ...
Olivia DeTroyer-Cooley, Justin Pestrue, Andrew Wong, Marie Phillips, Jeffrey S. McCullough, Andrew E. Krumm, Muhammad Ghous, Judy Konye, Karandeep Singh, Erkin Otles, John P. Donnelly, Carleen Penoza   +11 more
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Factors Associated With Variability in the Performance of a Proprietary Sepsis Prediction Model Across 9 Networked Hospitals in the US

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2023
This cohort study uses data from electronic health records to assess variability in a sepsis prediction model across 9 hospitals.
Patrick G, Lyons, Mackenzie R, Hofford, Sean C, Yu, Andrew P, Michelson, Philip R O, Payne, Catherine L, Hough, Karandeep, Singh   +6 more
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Increased consumption of cardiovascular drugs under volume-based procurement (VBP) policy: demand release or assessment inducing? [PDF]

Health Research Policy and Systems
Background The phenomenon of growth in drug consumption within the framework of national volume-based procurement (VBP) policy raises speculations about demand release and policy inducing.
Ying Yang, Jieming Zhang, Yuanhui Duan, Lei Zhou, Sisheng Gan, Zongfu Mao, Shaotang Wu, Furong Wang   +7 more
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Clinical Safety of Pudilan Xiaoyan Oral Liquid for the Treatment of Upper Respiratory Tract Infection in the Real World: Protocol for a Prospective, Observational, Registry Study

JMIR Research Protocols
BackgroundPudilan Xiaoyan oral liquid (PDL) is a proprietary Chinese medicine preparation widely used for upper respiratory tract infection, known for its significant therapeutic effects.
Mengmeng Wang, Lianxin Wang, Fumei Liu, Renbo Chen, Zhifei Wang, Xin Cui, Yuanyuan Li, Yanming Xie   +7 more
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Are urban residents seeking appropriate care for malaria? evidence from an exploratory qualitative study in two cities in nigeria [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research
Background Unplanned and rapid urbanization within Nigerian cities with the attendant environmental consequences may hinder achieving malaria elimination goal.
Akintayo Ogunwale, IkeOluwapo Ajayi, Eniola Bamgboye, Al-Mukhtar Adamu, Musa Bello, Morenikeji Olawuwo, Adeniyi Fagbamigbe, Joshua Akinyemi, Ifeoma Ozodiegwu   +8 more
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