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Converting to Critical Access Status: How Does it Affect Rural Hospitals' Financial Performance?

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2009
To improve rural access to care, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 allowed eligible rural hospitals to convert to critical access hospitals (CAHs), which changed their Medicare payment from a prospective payment system (PPS) to a cost-based system.
Pengxiang Li, John E. Schneider, Marcia M. Ward   +2 more
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Carcinomas and Carcinoid Tumors of the Lungs and Bronchi in Children and Adolescents: The EXPeRT Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Sabine Irtan, Yves Reguerre, Malgorzata Krawczyk, Ewa Bien, Tal Ben‐Ami, Maja Cesen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Dominik T. Schneider, Abbas Agaimy, Constantin Lapa, Hubert Ducou le Pointe, Rainer Claus, Catherine Daniel, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +19 more
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Trends in Medicare Physician and Facility Fee Reimbursement in Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle

Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics, 2022
Category: Ankle; Ankle Arthritis; Arthroscopy; Bunion; Diabetes; Hindfoot; Lesser Toes; Midfoot/Forefoot; Sports; Trauma Introduction/Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the trends in physician and facility reimbursement for the orthopaedic ...
Clayton Hui, Haroon Kisana, John R. Martin, Chad Stecher, Joshua Hustedt MD   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prospective Payment System and Hospitalization for Pneumonia in Italy [PDF]

Archives of Internal Medicine, 2001
Prospective payment system and hospitalization for pneumonia in ...
Onder, Graziano, Bernabei, Roberto, Cesari, Matteo, Gambassi, Giovanni   +3 more
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Prognosis of Long‐Term Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy and the Impact of Combined Continuous Intravenous Sodium Infusion Therapy

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Patients requiring long‐term continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) generally have poor prognoses. This study evaluated whether adding continuous intravenous sodium infusion (cIVNa) is associated with improved hemodynamics and outcomes in patients undergoing long‐term CRRT for ≥ 7 days.
Akinori Yamaguchi, Atsuyoshi Mita, Kosuke Sonoda, Makoto Harada, Koji Hashimoto, Hiroshi Imamura, Yuji Kamijo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distribution service performance optimization of PDAM Tirta Taman Bontang City East Kalimantan Province

Civil and Environmental Science Journal, 2023
To achieve the level of service performance from PDAM Tirta Taman Kota Bontang, obtained based on user perceptions of PDAM Taman Tirta obtained from the results of a questionnaire with a Likert scale using the Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) method.
Aviantara Wahyu Nugraha, M. Ruslin Anwar, Eko Andi Suryo   +2 more
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Longitudinal genome‐wide aneuploidy measurements in circulating cell‐free DNA to predict lack of benefit from pembrolizumab in patients with metastatic urothelial cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Many patients with urothelial cancer do not benefit from treatment with pembrolizumab, while at risk of severe side effects. Changes in the levels of circulating tumor DNA early during treatment, measured by a simple and affordable assay that can be easily implemented in the clinic, can be used as a prognostic tool to identify these patients.
Youssra Salhi, Stavros Makrodimitris, Sandra van Wilpe, Iris te Paske, Vanja de Weerd, Corine M. Beaufort, Hans M. Westgeest, Jens Voortman, Maureen J. B. Aarts, Maud Rijnders, Astrid A. M. van der Veldt, Ronald de Wit, Niven Mehra, Saskia M. Wilting, Debbie G. J. Robbrecht   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of Hospital Payment Based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) with Global Budget on Resource Use and Quality of Care: A Case Study in China

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2019
Background: China has implemented numerous pilots to shift its hospital payment mechanism from the traditional retrospective cost-based system to prospective diagnosis-related-group (DRG) -based system.
Suwei YUAN, Wenwei LIU, Fengqing WEI, Haichen ZHANG, Suping WANG, Weijun ZHU, Jin MA   +6 more
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Addressing Economic Insecurities Can Improve Patient‐Reported Outcomes in Lupus

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Economic insecurities, such as food, housing, transportation, and financial challenges, are modifiable risk factors and influence patient‐reported outcomes (PROs) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We examined the following: (1) associations between economic insecurities and PROs, and (2) the impact of screening and addressing economic ...
Jay Patel, Tripti Singh, Meredith Ingersoll, Shelby Gomez, Amanda Weber, Sarah E. Panzer, Sancia Ferguson, Christie M. Bartels, Shivani Garg   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Onset of Fibromyalgia After Exposure to a Combat Environment: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Traumatic life events are hypothesized to be triggers for the onset of fibromyalgia. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common comorbidity of fibromyalgia. However, limited prospective data are available on the development of fibromyalgia after exposure to high‐magnitude stress.
Jay B. Higgs, Willie J. Hale, Casey L. Straud, Jim Mintz, Stacey Young‐McCaughan, Kimberly D. Gomes, Chelsea J. Sterne, Katrina M. Lawrence‐Wolff, Alan J. Bartholomew, Kevin M. Kelly, Douglas M. Maurer, Catherine Vriend, Brett T. Litz, Douglas E. Williamson, Alan L. Peterson, for the STRONG STAR Consortium   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source