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Suburban Poverty and the Health Care Safety Net [PDF]

, 2009
Examines trends in the number of suburban poor, their access to health care, and efforts to improve safety-net services in the suburbs of five cities.
Johanna R. Lauer, Laurie E. Felland, Peter J. Cunningham   +2 more
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Sex Differences in rt-PA Utilization at Hospitals Treating Stroke: The National Inpatient Sample. [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Sex and race disparities in recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) use have been reported. We sought to explore sex and race differences in the utilization of rt-PA at primary stroke centers (PSCs) compared to non-PSCs ...
Albright, Karen C, Boehme, Amelia K., Branas, Charles C., Carr, Brendan G., Elkind, Mitchell S V S.V., Kallan, Michael J., Kasner, Scott Eric, Mullen, Michael T.   +7 more
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Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery in the Era of Robotics: Evolution, Eclipse, or Equilibrium?

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Minimally invasive colorectal surgery has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past three decades. Laparoscopy, once viewed with skepticism, is now firmly established as a standard approach, supported by robust randomized trials demonstrating oncologic safety and improved recovery compared to open surgery.
Amanjeet Singh, Archit Gupta, Azhar Perwaiz, Adarsh Chaudhary   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Increase in Pancreatoduodenectomy Volume at Mid‐Volume Facilities in the United States: A National Cancer Database Analysis

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The annual number of pancreatoduodenectomies (PDs) in the United States has increased over the past decade, but the facility types driving this growth and whether outcomes have improved remain unclear. We aimed to identify characteristics of facilities with increasing PD volumes and assess national trends in centralization ...
Koichi Tomita, Naruhiko Ikoma
wiley   +1 more source

Adherence to WHO/INRUD prescription indicators in public hospitals: evidence from the Ashanti Region, Ghana

Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety
Background: Rational prescribing optimizes medicine use, reduces costs, and improves patient outcomes. However, adherence to rational prescribing practices varies, particularly in low- and middle-income countries like Ghana, where healthcare systems ...
Richard Delali Agbeko Djochie, Rita Owusu-Donkor, Elizabeth Modupe d’Almeida, Francis Kwadwo Gyamfi Akwah, Emmanuel Kyeremateng, Samuel Opoku-Afriyie, Cecilia Akosua Tabiri, Francis Kyei-Frimpong, Samuel Dwomoh, Francis Fordjour, Jonathan Boakye-Yiadom   +10 more
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Do Patients Bypass Rural Hospitals? Determinants of Inpatient Hospital Choice in Rural California [PDF]

Rural hospitals play a crucial role in providing healthcare to rural Americans, a vulnerable and underserved population; however, rural hospitals have faced threats to their financial viability and many have closed as a result.
José J Escarce, Kanika Kapur
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Participation for mental health service development in China: Conditions, challenges, facilitators, and outcomes

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study analyzes a participatory project to develop peer support services for people with serious mental illnesses (SMIs) in China. Drawing on interviews with psychiatrists, social workers, service users, and a family caregiver, it examines the conditions, challenges, facilitators, and outcomes of participation in a paternalistic context ...
Zhiying Ma, Yu Fan, Xiyuan Chen, Lindsay Sheehan, Sang Qin, Aoxuan Cao, Liang Zhou   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incentive affects physicians’ willingness to continue participating in urban–rural medical consortia: a comparative study of county and provincial hospitals in Central China

BMC Health Services Research
Objectives The World Health Organization asserts that incentives significantly impact physicians’ participation in healthcare initiatives. China introduced incentive programs to boost involvement in urban–rural medical consortia.
Bowen Zhang, Liang Ma, Wenjie Ma, Dingding Kang, Yiqing Mao   +4 more
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Urban Hospitals : a Spatial Analysis of Hospitals as Urban Sites

, 2022
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns havepushed urban planners to think aloud about the future of urbanspace in our cities. The hospital is where we confront ourmortality and give ourselves over to other powers, whether it bethose of medicine and technology or some source of faith.
openaire   +1 more source

Health-care policy as urban policy: Hospitals and community development in the postindustrial city [PDF]

This paper seeks to explore urban hospital policy, its history, and, in particular, the contradictions, challenges, and opportunities that it poses for community development in U.S. cities.
Guian A. McKee
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