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Proprietary management and higher readmission rates: A correlation.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
IntroductionReducing 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   +3 more
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ANALYSIS OF CONSUMPTION OF ANTIBACTERIAL DRUGS FOR SYSTEMIC USE IN HOSPITALS OF SAINT PETERSBURG IN 2014–2015

open access: yesЖурнал инфектологии, 2018
Introduction. The overuse of antimicrobial agents, and poor adherence to infection control measures are leading factors in the development of bacterial resistance. Despite the existence of numerous guidelines for the management of patients with different
Yu. M. Gomon   +7 more
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On patient flow in hospitals: A data-based queueing-science perspective

open access: yesStochastic Systems, 2015
Hospitals are complex systems with essential societal benefits and huge mounting costs. These costs are exacerbated by inefficiencies in hospital processes, which are often manifested by congestion and long delays in patient care.
Mor Armony   +5 more
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Patient perception of pain care in hospitals in the United States

open access: yesJournal of Pain Research, 2009
Anita Gupta1, Sarah Daigle2, Jeffrey Mojica3, Robert W Hurley41Pain Management Division, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 2Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, 3Department of ...
Anita Gupta   +3 more
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The Role of the Proprietary Hospital

open access: yesLaw 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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Generation of a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-based Ontology for Federated Feasibility Queries in the Context of COVID-19: Feasibility Study

open access: yesJMIR Medical Informatics, 2022
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of making research data from all German hospitals available to scientists to respond to current and future pandemics promptly.
Lorenz Rosenau   +7 more
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PARTICIPATION OF RAILWAY DEPARTMENT AND RAILWAYS IN ASSISTING THE ARMY AND POPULATION DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The article highlights such important aspect of the First World War as charity. The authors analyzed the process of creation and functioning of departmental and «hybrid» charity model combining bureaucratic, private and proprietary and public basis ...
A. I. Narezhny, M. V. Pyatikova
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Health-Seeking Behavior Regarding Coughs in Urban Slums in Lagos, Nigeria

open access: yesMedicines, 2023
Background: TB is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, with slum residents being disproportionately affected. This study aimed to assess health-seeking behavior among adult residents of slum communities presenting with coughs in Lagos, Nigeria ...
Victor Abiola Adepoju   +2 more
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The use of analytic hierarchy process for measuring the complexity of medical diagnosis

open access: yesHealth Informatics Journal, 2020
Diagnostic complexity is an important contextual factor affecting a variety of medical outcomes. Existing measurements of diagnosis complexity either rely on crude proxies or use fine-grained measures that employ indicators from proprietary data that are
Ofir Ben-Assuli   +3 more
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A Datasheet for the INSIGHT University Hospitals Birmingham Retinal Vein Occlusion Data Set

open access: yesOphthalmology Science, 2023
Purpose: Retinal vein occlusion (RVO) is the second leading cause of visual loss due to retinal disease. Retinal vein occlusion increases the risk of cardiovascular mortality and the risk of stroke.
Edward J. Bilton, MBChB (MBBS)   +7 more
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