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Effects of Proprietary Management in General Hospital Psychitric Units

Psychiatric Services, 1986
The rapid increase in the number of proprietary psychiatric hospitals during the last 15 years has drawn criticism from those concerned about the impact of the profit motive on the quality of patient care. This study assessed changes in the structure and quality of care on 13 acute care psychiatric units before and after a single outside proprietary ...
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THE USES OF PROPRIETARY AND MEDICINAL FOODS IN THE HOSPITAL

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1930
The heyday of the "patent medicine" is past. The public has learned that health cannot be purchased in bottle form. Shotgun prescribing by physicians is being superseded by the rational use of drugs of known composition and action. The value of hygiene, physical therapeutics and diet in the prevention and amelioration of disease is becoming recognized ...
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The Erlangen University Hospital Communication Hub - Proprietary and Standardised Communication

1998
The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg contains 22 hospitals and 11 autonomous medical departments which are spread out over a large area in the city of Erlangen. The necessary connections of these units and their computer based subsystems to each other and to the medical computer centre via fibre optics cables is complete.
B, Wentz, D, Kraska, C, Seggewies, R, Bell, H, Seibold   +4 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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The Erlangen Hospital Communication Hub: Migration from Proprietary to Standardised Communication

1997
The Erlangen communication hub allows medical subsystems to exchange data by two completely different methods. Since 1995 a communication data base, which is implemented using the relational data base system ADABAS D, contains data from the most important hospital systems. This data can be accessed by other medical systems.
B, Wentz, C, Seggewies, R, Bell, S, Knispel, D, Kraska   +4 more
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SELECTION OF PROPRIETARY VERSUS NONPROPRIETARY DRUGS IN HOSPITAL PRESCRIBING

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1930
The growth of hospitals in number and in efficiency is one of the striking medical changes of the past twenty years. They have been equipped with modern operating rooms and x-ray, chemical and pathologic laboratories, and through their staffs are exerting a tremendous educational influence on the public.
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Proprietary Hospitals in the United States

1974
It has been traditionally argued that short-term private hospitals in the United States are predominantly non-profit voluntary institutions because they owe their origins to the charitable hospital of the nineteenth century, because they enjoy tax and other advantages over profit-making hospitals, and because Americans abhor the idea of profiting at ...
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Voluntary and proprietary hospital behavioural response to socio-economic stimuli

Applied Economics, 1993
This paper contributes to the literature on the economic aspects of hospital behaviour in the United States in these substantive ways: (1) A theoretical basis for incorporating socio-economic variables, in the form of indices, into our analysis of hospital behaviour is presented; (2) it is found that hospitals of the same ownership type exhibit ...
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Knowledge of proprietary and generic drug names among hospital prescribers: time to mandate generic prescribing?

Internal Medicine Journal, 2017
AbstractAlthough medical students are taught clinical pharmacology using generic drug names, prescribing in hospitals often uses brand names. As a result, junior doctors may be prescribing drugs without knowing their nature or mode of action. We carried out a knowledge survey of 81 medical students and doctors at a 650‐bed Australian teaching hospital ...
Lisa Harris, Thomas Barrett, Joshua S. Davis, Joshua S. Davis   +3 more
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A profile of preacquisition proprietary hospitals.

Health care management review, 1989
A study was conducted to compare the financial, hospital, and market characteristics of proprietary hospitals prior to their acquisition by investor-owned hospital chains to free-standing proprietary hospitals and not-for-profit preacquisition hospitals.
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