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The Relationship Between Hospital Interdepartmental Transfers and Patient Experience

Journal of Patient Experience, 2020
This study examined the association between interdepartmental transfers and the perceptions of care received by adult patients who were admitted and discharged from a 300-bed, not-for-profit community tertiary hospital in the Midwest.
Betty Mortensen DSc, RN, Nancy Borkowski DBA, Stephen J O’Connor PhD, Patricia A Patrician PhD, RN, FAAN, Robert Weech-Maldonado PhD   +4 more
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Hospital Purchasing File

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 1950
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State Implementation of National Health Reform: Harnessing Federal Resources to Meet State Policy Goals [PDF]

, 2010
Discusses state options for maximizing coverage and access to care; reforming the health insurance market; holding insurers accountable for high-quality, affordable coverage; restructuring healthcare delivery and financing; and cutting budget ...
Stan Dorn
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Continuous quality improvement project to reduce the downtime of medical linear accelerators: A case study at Zhejiang Cancer Hospital

Heliyon
Objective: To analyse and continually improve existing issues in the quality improvement process of medical linear accelerators (LINACs) and enhance the quality control management of LINACs.
Qi-Peng Lu, Yong Wu, Xiao-Dong Mao, Hua-Jun Wan, Jian Shao, Qi-Kai Yu, Wei Zhang, Yue Zhao, Ci-Yong Wang   +8 more
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Who Pays? Who Benefits? Unfairness in American Health Care [PDF]

, 2011
American-style health insurance greatly amplifies price-gouging opportunities for health care providers, who inflate prices both to enrich themselves and to subsidize and expand the nation’s health care enterprise.
Havighurst, Clark C., Richman, Barak D.
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Trends in health care commissioning in the English NHS: an empirical analysis [PDF]

In recent years there have been marked changes in organisational structures and budgetary arrangements in the English NHS, potentially altering the relationships between purchasers (primary care organisations (PCOs) and general practices) and providers ...
Hugh Gravelle, Maria Goddard, Mark Dusheiko, Rowena Jacobs   +3 more
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Medicine procurement in hospital pharmacies of Nepal: A qualitative study based on the Basel Statements.

PLoS ONE, 2018
BackgroundAccessibility and affordability of evidence-based medicines are issues of global concern. For low-income countries like Nepal, it is crucial to have easy and reliable access to affordable, good-quality, evidence-based medicines, especially in ...
Mina Shrestha, Rebekah Moles, Eurek Ranjit, Betty Chaar   +3 more
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A Framework for Tracking the Impacts of the Affordable Care Act in California [PDF]

, 2011
Recommends measures for monitoring the impact of healthcare reform on insurance coverage, affordability and comprehensiveness of coverage, and access to care; the best data source for each measure; gaps in existing data; and issues for data ...
Elizabeth Lukanen, Julie Sonier
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The vacated space of volume/price of the drugs centralized procurement with quantity in secondary and above public hospitals of China

BMC Health Services Research
Background In 2018, the National Centralized Drug Procurement (NCDP) policy has been implemented in 11 provinces, and promoted across the country in 2019.
Jingliang Wang, Siyu Zhang, Canghong Wang, Jun Li, Rui Wang, Liang Zhu   +5 more
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Hospital Choice for Cataract Treatments: The Winner Takes Most [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2018
Background Transparency in quality of care is an increasingly important issue in healthcare. In many international healthcare systems, transparency in quality is crucial for health insurers when purchasing care on behalf of their consumers, for ...
Suzanne Ruwaard, Rudy C M H Douven
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