Does Competition Improve Public Hospitals' Efficiency? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in the English National Health Service [PDF]
This paper uses a difference-in-difference style estimation strategy to test separately the impact of competition from public sector and private sector hospitals on the efficiency of public hospitals.
Alistair McGuire +3 more
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Privacy-Preserving Action Recognition for Smart Hospitals using Low-Resolution Depth Images [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Computer-vision hospital systems can greatly assist healthcare workers and improve medical facility treatment, but often face patient resistance due to the perceived intrusiveness and violation of privacy associated with visual surveillance. We downsample video frames to extremely low resolutions to degrade private information from surveillance videos.
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Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.This final part 3 review builds on the practical applications discussed in part 2 and explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming data management, neurological education, and neurological care across large healthcare networks and datasets. The review also highlights AI's role in real‐world and synthetic data, digital twins, and innovative
Matthew Rizzo
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Health Care Waste Management Practices in Public and Private Sector Hospitals
Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College, 2014 Background: To assess the existing health care waste management practices in public and private sector hospitals of Bahawalpur City. Methods: In this cross sectional descriptive study all private hospitals of Bahawalpur City and 24 public sector sites ...
Samina Badar
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Healthcare waste management in selected government and private hospitals in Southeast Nigeria
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2016 Objective: To assess healthcare workers' involvement in healthcare waste management in public and private hospitals. Methods: Validated questionnaires (n = 660) were administered to randomly selected healthcare workers from selected private hospitals ...
Angus Nnamdi Oli +6 more
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Appendicitis in Private and Public Hospitals for the Insane [PDF]
Journal of Mental Science, 1912 The excuse for a discussion on this physical affection in association with the insane mind is an attempt to prove by its rarity in county and county-borough asylums, asylums for idiots, mental hospitals and licensed houses of England and Wales, that it is preventable.
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Cost and Technical Efficiency of German Hospitals – A Stochastic Frontier Analysis [PDF]
Using a newly available and multifaceted dataset provided by the German Federal Statistical Office, this paper is the first to investigate both technical and cost efficiency of more than 1500 German general hospitals conducting a stochastic frontier ...
Annika Frohloff
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Ownership, Incentives and Hospitals [PDF]
, 2014 This article analyzes hospital privatization by comparing costs and quality between different ownership forms. We put the attention on the distinction between public hospitals and private hospitals with public funding.
Fageda, Xavier, 1975-, Fiz Querol, Eva
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Organizational Structure and Performances of Responsible Malaysian Healthcare Providers: A Balanced Scorecard Perspective [PDF]
, 2015 This paper aims to assess the organizational structure and performances through the Balanced Scorecard of Malaysian private hospitals by focusing on top management's perceptions.
Ramli, Aliza, Shukri, Nur Faezah Mohd
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Improving the Classification Effect of Clinical Images of Diseases for Multi-Source Privacy Protection [PDF]
arXivPrivacy data protection in the medical field poses challenges to data sharing, limiting the ability to integrate data across hospitals for training high-precision auxiliary diagnostic models. Traditional centralized training methods are difficult to apply due to violations of privacy protection principles.
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