A note on hospital financing: local financing vs. central financing [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 This note tries to study how hospital behaviors, with reference to interhospital collaboration or competition, could be affected by hospital financing systems. For that this note simulates two scenarios which start with the following baseline scenario: a State, with a set of hospitals, each with all types of wards at a basic level.
arxiv
The Impact of Surgery Resident Participation on the Outcome of Carotid Endarterectomy [PDF]
, 2020 Introduction. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the in-hospital stroke rate plus deaths (SD) was adversely impacted by the participation of surgery residents during carotid endarterectomy. Methods.
Ammar, Alex
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The Growth of Palliative Care in U.S. Hospitals: A Status Report
Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2016 Background: Palliative care is expanding rapidly in the United States. Objective: To examine variation in access to hospital palliative care. Methods: Data were obtained from the American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Surveys™ for Fiscal Years 2012 ...
Tamara Dumanovsky +5 more
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Understanding the Security and Performance of the Web Presence of Hospitals: A Measurement Study [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Using a total of 4,774 hospitals categorized as government, non-profit, and proprietary hospitals, this study provides the first measurement-based analysis of hospitals' websites and connects the findings with data breaches through a correlation analysis. We study the security attributes of three categories, collectively and in contrast, against domain
arxiv
Emergency and critical care services in Tanzania: a survey of ten hospitals. [PDF]
, 2013 While there is a need for good quality care for patients with serious reversible disease in all countries in the world, Emergency and Critical Care tends to be one of the weakest parts of health systems in low-income countries.
A Iddriss +50 more
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Cybersecurity in Hospitals: A Systematic, Organizational Perspective
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2018 Background Cybersecurity incidents are a growing threat to the health care industry in general and hospitals in particular. The health care industry has lagged behind other industries in protecting its main stakeholder (ie, patients), and now hospitals ...
M. Jalali, Jessica P Kaiser
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Readmission rates in not-for-profit vs. proprietary hospitals before and after the hospital readmission reduction program implementation. [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) to penalize hospitals with excessive 30-day hospital readmissions of Medicare enrollees for specific conditions.
Birmingham, Lauren E. +1 more
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Secondary Use of Employee COVID-19 Symptom Reporting as Syndromic Surveillance as an Early Warning Signal of Future Hospitalizations [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Importance: Alternative methods for hospital utilization forecasting, essential information in hospital crisis planning, are necessary in a novel pandemic when traditional data sources such as disease testing are limited. Objective: Determine whether mandatory daily employee symptom attestation data can be used as syndromic surveillance to forecast ...
arxiv
Insights into PI3K/AKT signaling in B cell development and chronic lymphocytic leukemia
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.This Review explores how the phosphoinositide 3‐kinase and protein kinase B pathway shapes B cell development and drives chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a common blood cancer. It examines how signaling levels affect disease progression, addresses treatment challenges, and introduces novel experimental strategies to improve therapies and patient outcomes.
Maike Buchner
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