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Historical Statistics of the United States Chapter on Voluntary, Nonprofit, and Religious Entities and Activities: Underlying Concepts, Concerns, and Opportunities [PDF]

, 2002
This paper is a draft of the introduction to the chapter on voluntary, nonprofit, and religious entities and activities slated to appear in the Millennial Edition of Historical Statistics of the United States (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press ...
Colin B. Burke, Peter Dobkin Hall
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Digital Health Policy and Programs for Hospital Care in Vietnam: Scoping Review

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022
BackgroundThere are a host of emergent technologies with the potential to improve hospital care in low- and middle-income countries such as Vietnam.
Duc Minh Tran, C Louise Thwaites, Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil, Jacob McKnight, An Phuoc Luu, Chris Paton   +5 more
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The exploration of medical resources utilization among inguinal hernia repair in Taiwan diagnosis-related groups

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
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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ANALYSIS OF CONSUMPTION OF ANTIBACTERIAL DRUGS FOR SYSTEMIC USE IN HOSPITALS OF SAINT PETERSBURG IN 2014–2015

Журнал 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, A. A. Kurylev, A. S. Kolbin, M. A. Proskurin, I. G. Ivanov, S. V. Sidorenko, M. A. Arepieva, A. V. Sokolov   +7 more
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Trends analysis for drug utilization in county public hospitals: a sample study of the pilot area of health care reform in China

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
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, Xu Jin, Ling Zhang, Huihui Sun, Aizong Shen, Xiaohui Huang, Yehuan Sun   +6 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]

, 1972
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, Ljung, Lennart, Schön, Thomas   +2 more
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A Datasheet for the INSIGHT Birmingham, Solihull, and Black Country Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Dataset

Ophthalmology Science, 2023
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, Andrew Mills, Emily Guggenheim, PhD, David Gee, Samuel Bodza, MS, Aparna Anumakonda, Rima Doal, MSc, Rowena Williams, MSc, Suzy Gallier, BSc, Wen Hwa Lee, PhD, Paul Galsworthy, BA, Manjit Benning, BSc (Hons), FCMI, Hilary Fanning, Pearse A. Keane, MD, FRCOphth, Alastair K. Denniston, PhD, Susan P. Mollan, FRCOphth   +15 more
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On patient flow in hospitals: A data-based queueing-science perspective

Stochastic 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, Shlomo Israelit, Avishai Mandelbaum, Yariv N. Marmor, Yulia Tseytlin, Galit B. Yom-Tov   +5 more
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A Privacy-Preserving Log-Rank Test for the Kaplan-Meier Estimator With Secure Multiparty Computation: Algorithm Development and Validation

JMIR Medical Informatics, 2021
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, Ballhausen, Hendrik, Kaul, David, Fleischmann, Daniel F, Niyazi, Maximilian, Belka, Claus, Carle, Georg   +6 more
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Validation of a Proprietary Deterioration Index Model and Performance in Hospitalized Adults

JAMA Network Open, 2023
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., Southwell, Bronwyn, Ravishankar, Adarsh, Tran, Travis, Kc, Abhinab, Phelan, Tom, Melton-Meaux, Genevieve B., Usher, Michael G., Scheppmann, Daren, Switzer, Sean, Simon, Gyorgy, Tignanelli, Christopher J.   +11 more
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