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Guidelines for blood utilization review

Transfusion, 1994
Hospitals are required by accrediting agencies to perform blood utilization review. Specific areas that must be addressed are the ordering, distribution, handling, dispensing, and administration of blood components. Monitoring the effects of transfusion on patients is also required.
L. Stehling, N.L. Luban, K.C. Anderson, M.H. Sayers, A. Long, S. Attar, S.F. Leitman, S.A. Gould, M.S. Kruskall, L.T. Goodnough, D. M. Hines   +10 more
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Decibels and Utilization Review

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1977
A number of recent reports serve to confirm earlier suspicions that sinister forces are undermining the precepts of Osier and his disciples and that a malignant proliferation of transistor radios and television sets is infiltrating every aspect of the modern hospital. 1-4 On open wards six different television stations usually blare in unison, drowning
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Professional review of laboratory utilization

Human Pathology, 1982
Overutilization of laboratory procedures is a significant problem, particularly in teaching institutions. The purpose of this study was to assess laboratory utilization patterns on the medical service of a university hospital, comparing data from implicit peer review by a pathologist with those from a group of practicing primary care physicians.
T S, McConnell, P R, Berger, H H, Dayton, B E, Umland, B E, Skipper   +4 more
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Utilization Review and Resident Education

Psychiatric Services, 1979
The reasons for psychiatric hospitalization are not always taught clearly and formally to psychiatric residents; screening criteria employed in utilization review can be a tool for helping residents gather data and make decisions about the admission or continued stay of patients.
J H, Spencer, M R, Mattson
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Utility scoring of product reviews

Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM '06, 2006
We identify a new task in the ongoing research in text sentiment analysis: predicting utility of product reviews, which is orthogonal to polarity classification and opinion extraction. We build regression models by incorporating a diverse set of features, and achieve highly competitive performance for utility scoring on three real-world data sets.
Zhu Zhang, Balaji Varadarajan
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Focused Utilization Review Strategies

QRB - Quality Review Bulletin, 1989
Researchers from the Michigan Health Care Education and Research Foundation, a research affiliate of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, compared three focused utilization review (UR) strategies to determine which method most effectively and efficiently identifies nonacute inpatient hospital admissions.
I, Strumwasser, N, Paranjpe, D L, Ronis, G, Nastas, R, Livingston, D, Share   +5 more
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Hospital Utilization-Review Mechanisms

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1966
Utilization review is required as a prerequisite to participation in medicare (PL 89-97). Experience with such mechanisms has been restricted to a few areas in this country. The Hospital Utilization Project of Western Pennsylvania has developed an extensive mechanism for identifying areas of hospital practice which would warrant attention by a medical ...
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Efficiency Gains in Utilization Review

Quality Assurance and Utilization Review, 1989
A study was conducted to determine which Major Diagnostic Categories (MDCs) accounted for most of the nonessential hospital admissions in 73 Michigan hospitals in 1986. The Intensity, Severity, Discharge- Appropriateness (ISD-A) criteria set was used to identify nonessential admissions.
N, Paranjpe, I, Strumwasser, D L, Ronis, C, Bartzack, C, Zech   +4 more
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The Impact of Utilization Review on Nursing

JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 1987
At first glance, nursing's role in UR appears to be of strategic significance to the profession. But there are several issues that nurse executives need to consider. First, since UR departments are seldom part of the nursing department, UR nurses are practicing outside the realm of nursing.
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Utilization Review: A House Divided

Psychiatric Services, 1990
Utilization review in mental health takes a number of forms; its most controversial incarnation is the review by professionals in the employ of insurance companies to determine whether or not claims will be honored. In a short time, utilization review has grown into a powerful force in determining how-and whether-psychiatric care will be delivered ...
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