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Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare EpidemiologyBackground: State-level hospital comparative antibiotic usage rates can highlight opportunities for interventions to optimize antimicrobial stewardship (AS).
Rabia Syed +6 more
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CONTRIBUTION OF HOSPITALS TO NORTH DAKOTA'S ECONOMY [PDF]
Community hospital administrators in North Dakota were surveyed to determine the amount and type of expenditures made to North Dakota entities in 1997. Estimates of net revenues retained within the state were also solicited. Forty-two of the 44 community
Bangsund, Dean A., Leistritz, F. Larry
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Talking With Patients: How Hospitals Use Bilingual Clinicians and Staff to Care for Patients With Language Needs [PDF]
, 2009 Presents survey findings on bilingual clinicians, staff, interpreters, and volunteers providing language services; training and assessment; hospital policies; and their impact.
Christal Ramos +3 more
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Dying Poor in an Urban Hospital
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2001 A physician describes the challenges of caring for dying poor patients and how the inner-city hospital where he works has created an innovative palliative care program to help give such patients more dignity and choices in their end-of-life care. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
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Cost–benefit analysis of screening programme for diabetic retinopathy in Bulgaria
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Aims Late‐diagnosed diabetic retinopathy (DR) is difficult and expensive to treat. Screening programmes can identify the disease early and reduce the costs of its future treatment. This study aims to analyse the cost–benefit of screening programmes for DR.
Iva Nenkova +5 more
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Patient Admission Patterns and Acquisitions of "Feeder" Hospitals [PDF]
Large, urban tertiary care hospitals often acquire outlying community hospitals. One possible motivation is to increase referrals. Sophisticated acquirers may even attempt to concentrate additional referrals among more profitable patients.
Cory Capps +2 more
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Aims To determine the prevalence of non‐adherence to antihypertensive medicines and to identify demographic and behavioral factors associated with non‐adherence in subjects enrolled in the May Measurement Month (MMM) 2023, as part of the permanent public health action Hunting the silent killer.
Valerija Bralić Lang +12 more
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GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2018 Quantification and assessment of nationwide population access to health-care services is a critical undertaking for improving population health and optimizing the performance of national health systems.
Yongze Song +6 more
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Determinants of Cost Inefficiency of Critical Access Hospitals: A Two-stage, Semi-parametric Approach [PDF]
This study examines, post-conversion, cost inefficiency of Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) using a two-stage approach. While the results suggest that Medicare cost-based reimbursement and longer participation in the CAH program may increase the cost ...
Fannin, James Matthew +1 more
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Midwives' competence : is it affected by working in a rural location? [PDF]
, 2007 Introduction: Rising health care costs and the need to consolidate expertise in tertiary services have led to the centralisation of services. In the UK, the result has been that many rural maternity units have become midwife-led.
Bryers, Helen +8 more
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