Challenges and Opportunities for Purchasing High-Quality Health Care: Lessons from Armenia
Health Systems & Reform, 2021 This paper examines how purchasing decisions in Armenia may contribute to barriers in using high-quality health care, particularly for non-communicable diseases, drawing on a review of the literature and key informant interviews.
Adanna Chukwuma +2 more
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Population pharmacokinetics and dosing optimization of unbound teicoplanin in Chinese adult patients
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 Objectives: To develop a population pharmacokinetic (PopPK) model describing unbound teicoplanin concentrations in Chinese adult patients and perform Monte Carlo simulations to optimize the dosing regimens.Methods: The raw data for PopPK analysis in this
Wen-Qian Fu +5 more
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Association between value-based purchasing score and hospital characteristics
BMC Health Services Research, 2012 Background Medicare hospital Value-based purchasing (VBP) program that links Medicare payments to quality of care will become effective from 2013. It is unclear whether specific hospital characteristics are associated with a hospital’s VBP score, and ...
Borah Bijan J +5 more
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020 Background Kenya has prioritized the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC) through the expansion of health insurance coverage by the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF).
Rahab Mbau +4 more
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The HOSPITAL score as a predictor of 30 day readmission in a retrospective study at a university affiliated community hospital [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Introduction Hospital readmissions are common, expensive, and a key target of the Medicare Value Based Purchasing (VBP) program. Risk assessment tools have been developed to identify patients at high risk of hospital readmission so they can be targeted ...
Robert Robinson
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Is the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program Associated with Reduced Hospital Readmissions?
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2022 Bradley Beauvais,1 Zachary Whitaker,2 Forest Kim,2 Benjamin Anderson3 1Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA; 2Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA; 3Colorado Hospital Association, Greenwood Village, CO, USACorrespondence: Bradley Beauvais, Tel +210 ...
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Outsourcing of Hospitals Services: Lessons Learned from the Experience [PDF]
پژوهشهای سلامتمحور, 2015 Introduction: Outsourcing of hospital care was widely used after the implementation of the Third Socio-economic Development Plan in 2000 . A return in policy occurred since 2006 .
Hossein Joudaki +2 more
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Inventory Management at a Chilean Hospital Pharmacy: Case Study of a Dynamic Decision-Aid Tool
Mathematics, 2020 Pharmacy inventory management is a critical process in healthcare centers. On the one hand, effective drug procurement is fundamental for fulfilling the therapeutic requirements of patients.
Fabián Silva-Aravena +2 more
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BMJ Open, 2022 Objectives Amid continuously rising US healthcare costs, particularly for inpatient and surgical services, strategies to more effectively manage supply chain expenses are urgently necessary.
Eli Cahan +5 more
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Is there a correlation between infection control performance and other hospital quality measures? [PDF]
, 2017 Quality measures are increasingly reported by hospitals to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), yet there may be tradeoffs in performance between infection control (IC) and other quality measures.
Anderson, Deverick J +10 more
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