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Hospitals, Managed Care, and the Charity Caseload in California [PDF]
Many observers have blamed HMOs for increasing financial pressures on private hospitals and causing them to cut back on the provision of charity care. We examine this issue using data on all hospital discharges in California between 1988 and 1996.
Janet Currie, John Fahr
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Keynesian hospitals? Public employment and political pressure [PDF]
This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in Not-For-Profit or private hospitals, even controlling for many measures ...
Andrew E. Clark, Carine Milcent
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Why Corporate Community Engagement Is Failing in Africa and What Civil Society Organizations Can Do to Change the Tide [PDF]
, 2008 Corporate community engagement is on the increase in Africa. Yet there is nothing much to show for this increased corporate benevolence except unfinished schools and hospitals, broken sewers and abandoned boreholes.
Paul Okumu
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Inferring Hospital Quality from Patient Discharge Records Using a Bayesian Selection Model [PDF]
This paper develops new econometric methods to estimate hospital quality and other models with discrete dependent variables and non-random selection. Mortality rates in patient discharge records are widely used to infer hospital quality.
Gautam Gowrisankaran, Robert J. Town
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Physician Performance Measurement Barriers in Private General Hospitals Around Medan City [PDF]
, 2017 Study results from early 2016 across 20 private general hospitals around Medan city, show there are 10 hospitals that have a physician performance measurement.
Lubis, A. M. (Arfah) +1 more
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Health Science ReportsBackground and Aims Drug‐drug interactions (DDIs) are a significant health issue that may adversely affect the health and well‐being of patients. This study assesses and compares potential DDI (pDDI) patterns, severity, and associated risk factors in ...
Md. Abdus Samadd +5 more
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BMJ OpenIntroduction The co-development of public–private hospitals in China’s healthcare system significantly influences the system’s service utilisation, but the public–private hospital interaction is poorly understood.
Jian Wang +6 more
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Explaining differences in hospital performance: Does the answer lie in the labour market? [PDF]
This paper examines the relationship between performance of English public sector hospitals (NHS trusts) and the quality of their nursing staff. Performance ratings of NHS trusts published in 2001 and 2002 indicate a clear regional divide. This divide is
Carol Propper +2 more
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DOTS Awareness and the Myths and Misconceptions about DOTS among Medical Practitioners in Mysore [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Annually 2 million people in India develop Tuberculosis and 330,000 die. WHO-recommended DOTS strategy was pilot-tested in 1993 and launched as Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) in 1997. Awareness of DOTS among the doctors
Khan, MA, Nagaraja, V, Sankapithilu, GB
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مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت, 2017 Introduction: Over the past several years, outsourcing services has received attention from managers in health sector in order to improve the quality of services and reduce costs; managers of the health information systems have also used outsourcing in ...
Maryam Jahanbakhsh +2 more
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