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Skilled Nursing Facilities: Medicare Payments Exceed Costs for Most but Not All Facilities [PDF]
, 2002 A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report addresses (1) the relationship between Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) payments and the costs of treating Medicare patients in freestanding SNFs, as
United States. General Accounting Office.
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Competitive Spillovers and Regulatory Exploitation by Skilled Nursing Facilities
, 2016 Typically, research on the effect of ownership has considered health care providers in isolation of competitive interaction from other firms. This analysis considers how the selection of Medicare reimbursement codes for skilled nursing facilities varies ...
Grabowski, David C. +2 more
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Skilled nursing patient classification system [PDF]
, 2003 Acute care hospitals have provided staff(the number of RNs and/or LVNs) based on the type of care and services required to meet the needs of the patients. Software classification systems already exist to meet this need.
Beal, Stephen
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Health impacts of public pawnshops in Industrialising Tokyo
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines whether expanded credit access through low‐interest small loans relaxed liquidity constraints among poor households and improved early‐life health in industrialising Tokyo. Using ward‐level panel data for 1927–1935, this study shows that public pawnshop lending was associated with 4% and 5% reductions in infant and foetal ...
Tatsuki Inoue
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Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare EpidemiologyBackground: Antibiotics are among the most frequently prescribed medications in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), yet an estimated 40-75% of these prescriptions may be inappropriate or unnecessary. Vulnerability of SNF residents to antibiotic resistance,
Lea Widemann, Tiina Peritz, Jane Gould
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Anaesthesia, EarlyView.Summary Introduction Day surgery is now recognised widely as being a vital component of modern healthcare delivery with overall day surgery rates in the UK now > 85%. Day surgery offers an enhanced experience for patients with reduced risk of postoperative complications (e.g.
Craig R. Bailey +8 more
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Ownership Status and Length of Stay in Skilled Nursing Facilities: Does Endogeneity Matter?
, 2016 In 1998, Medicare implemented the Prospective Payment System for post-acute care provided by skilled nursing facilities. This system paid a fixed price per day above the cost of care, creating an incentive to provide longer length of stays to increase ...
Bowblis, John R. +2 more
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the Solomon Islands Graduate Intern Supervision and Support Project (SIGISSP) and its successor, the Solomon Islands Medical Partnership for Learning, Education and Research (SIMPLER), a decade‐long partnership between the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services, the National Referral Hospital and Australian
Sharon McLennan
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Violent behaviour by patients and families is a significant issue facing healthcare providers, with a particularly high prevalence in hospital emergency departments. Occupational violence and aggression (OVA) puts both staff and patients at risk of physical and psychological harm and can affect the delivery of timely patient care.
Rosalind McDougall +8 more
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Birth, EarlyView.New analysis from 15 years of Indonesian Demographic Health Survey Data has identified a shift from home birth to hospital birth. However, 65% of women who gave birth in hospital had no risk factors, while 13% of women who gave birth at home did report pregnancy‐related risk factors.
Kai Hodgkin +2 more
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