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Background This study centered on differences in medical costs, using the Taiwan diagnosis-related groups (Tw-DRGs) on medical resource utilization in inguinal hernia repair (IHR) in hospitals with different ownership to provide suitable reference ...
Yu-Hua Yan, Chih-Ming Kung, Yi Chen
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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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The Nonprofit Hospital Exemption of the National Labor Relations Act: Application to the University-Operated Hospital in Duke University [PDF]
This work extends our recent work on proving that the particle filter converge for unbounded function to a more general case. More specifically, we prove that the particle filter converge for unbounded functions in the sense of L p-convergence, for an ...
Hu, Xiao-Li +2 more
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Proprietary management and higher readmission rates: A correlation.
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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Background Changes in the national drug policy always have impact on the drug utilization. In the context of China health care reform, what changes had happened in the trend of drug utilization in public hospitals? Has this change met the expectations of
Xuefeng Xie +6 more
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Purpose: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common microvascular complication associated with diabetes mellitus (DM), affecting approximately 40% of this patient population.
Aditya U. Kale, MBBS +15 more
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BackgroundPatient data is considered particularly sensitive personal data. Privacy regulations strictly govern the use of patient data and restrict their exchange. However, medical research can benefit from multicentric studies in which patient data from
von Maltitz, Marcel +6 more
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On patient flow in hospitals: A data-based queueing-science perspective
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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Validation of a Proprietary Deterioration Index Model and Performance in Hospitalized Adults
ImportanceThe Deterioration Index (DTI), used by hospitals for predicting patient deterioration, has not been extensively validated externally, raising concerns about performance and equitable predictions.ObjectiveTo locally validate DTI performance and assess its potential for bias in predicting patient clinical deterioration.Design, Setting, and ...
Byrd, Thomas F. +11 more
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The American Medical Association’s Work for Consumer Protection [PDF]
The aim of the given paper is the development of an approach for the identification of affine Wiener systems with piecewise linear nonlinearities, i.e.
Fishbein, Morris
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