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Physician-owned specialized facilities: focused factories or destructive competition?: a systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Multiple studies have investigated the business case of physician-owned specialized facilities (specialized hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers). However literature lacks integration.
Annemans, Lieven   +4 more
core  

Validation of the treatment identification strategy of the HEDIS addiction quality measures: concordance with medical record review

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2011
Background Strategies to accurately identify the occurrence of specific health care events in administrative data is central to many quality improvement and research efforts.
Ellerbe Laura S   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Economic impact of adverse drug events--a retrospective population-based cohort study of 4970 adults. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
BACKGROUND: The aim was to estimate the direct costs caused by ADEs, including costs for dispensed drugs, primary care, other outpatient care, and inpatient care, and to relate the direct costs caused by ADEs to the societal COI (direct and indirect ...
Hanna Gyllensten   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do Physicians Respond to Liability Standards? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper, we explore the sensitivity in the clinical decisions of physicians to the standards of care expected of them under the law, drawing on the abandonment by states over time of rules holding physicians to standards determined by local customs
Frakes, Michael D.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Validating the use of Hospital Episode Statistics data and comparison of costing methodologies for economic evaluation: an end-of-life case study from the Cluster randomised triAl of PSA testing for Prostate cancer (CAP)

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2016
Objectives To evaluate the accuracy of routine data for costing inpatient resource use in a large clinical trial and to investigate costing methodologies.Design Final-year inpatient cost profiles were derived using (1) data extracted from medical records
Richard M Martin   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nonconvulsive Electrographic Status Epilepticus

open access: yesPediatric Neurology Briefs, 2012
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati, OH, examined medical records of 75 children, aged 3 months to 21 years (mean age 7.8 years), for prevalence of nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) by searching a clinical EEG database (n=18) or consecutive
J Gordon Millichap
doaj   +1 more source

Completeness of inpatient medical record in St.Paul's hospital Millennium medical college

open access: yes, 2018
Medical record is an account compiled by physicians and other health professionals of a patient`s medical history, present illness, findings on examination, details of treatment and progress notes and it is a legal record of care. The maintenance of complete and accurate medical record is a fundamental duty of health care providers.
openaire   +2 more sources

Emergency Department Utilization and Capacity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Synthesizes research on who utilizes emergency departments, how often for non-urgent or preventable conditions and why, how cost-sharing affects utilization, and how utilization patterns affect hospital finances, overcrowding, and cost ...
Derek DeLia, Joel Cantor
core  

Clostridium difficile infection among veterans health administration patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
OBJECTIVETo report on the prevalence and incidence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) from 2009 to 2013 among Veterans Healthcare Administration patientsDESIGNA retrospective descriptive analysis of data extracted from a large electronic medical ...
Dubberke, Erik R   +8 more
core   +3 more sources

Drivers of hospital expenditure and length of stay in an academic medical centre: a retrospective cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background As healthcare expenditure and utilization continue to rise, understanding key drivers of hospital expenditure and utilization is crucial in policy development and service planning.
Nabilah Rahman   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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