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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Academic Medical Centers"”.
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The Organization and Administration of Continuing Education in Academic Medical Centers
… organization and administration of Continuing Medical Education (CME) in one of the settings in which it occurs, the academic medical center. Because of the scarcity of research findings on which to base generalizations about the organization and administration of CME in academic medical …
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Optimization-simulation framework to optimize hospital bed allocation in academic medical centers
… wait times are major challenges that many large, academic centers currently face. To address these challenges, hospitals must effectively utilize available beds through proper strategic bed allocation and robust operational day-to-day bed assignment policies. Since patient daily demand for beds is …
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Policy Systems and Their Complexity Dynamics: Academic Medical Centers and Managed Care Markets
… of large-scale networked organizational groups. Academic medical centers (AMCs), a large-scale social and policy system that plays a key role in the education of physicians, the conduct of research, and the provision of specialized clinical care, were chosen as an example to demonstrate the …
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From bench to bedside : impact of conflict-of-interest restrictions at academic medical centers on clinical trials
… is most successful with collaboration between academics - scientists and physicians - and industry. In recent years, there has been increasing concern at academic medical centers about the impact of relationships with industry on patient care and student education. This has generally resulted …
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By Chance or by Design: the Organizational Identification of Academic Directors in Academic Medical Centers in the U.S.
Academic medical centers (AMCs) are complex, bureaucratic organizations with multiple, interconnected missions and constituencies. What happens in the classroom affects the operating room and lab. Clinical medical school faculty who become clerkship or course directors (called “academic directors” …
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Building An Evidence Based Succession Planning Tool For Chief Nurse Executives
… for the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) role within academic medical centers. The purpose of this project was to design and validate a tool that could be used by Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and CNOs to prospectively implement development plans for qualified internal nurse leaders. This project is …
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Planning Towards Equal Spatial Accessibility of NCI Cancer Centers Across Geographic Areas and Demographic Groups in the U.S.
The Cancer Centers designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) form the “backbone” of the cancer care system in the United States. Awarded via a peer-review process and being re-evaluated every 3 to 5 years, an NCI Cancer Center receives substantial financial support from NCI grants. When the …
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Impact of the Massachusetts Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturer Code of Conduct on medical device physician-industry collaboration
The Massachusetts Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturer Code of Conduct (PCOC) or 105 CMR 970.000 was enacted by the Massachusetts state legislature and adopted by the Department of Public Health (DPH) in July 2009 under Chapter 305 of the Acts of 2008, An Act To Promote Cost Containment, …
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Predicting departure of baccalaureate prepared graduate nurses participating in a twelve month nurse residency program
… GNs who remain in nurse residency programs at academic medical centers. The results of the study indicate that satisfaction, age and autonomy predict those who leave and those who stay with 86.8% accuracy of which a 9% margin of difference between staying and leaving. The strongest influence …
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Financial problems confronting U.S. medical schools in an era of expanding group care
This dissertation shows the impact upon two academic medical centers (AMCs) from the competition from managed care. From fiscally sound and thriving organizations a decade ago, many medical schools are now facing severe money problems. U. S. medical schools derive a large share of their general …
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Quantifying the impact of care team discontinuities on medically unnecessary delays in inpatient flow
… a highly diverse patient population. Like many Academic Medical Centers, the DOM is confronted with increasing inpatient volume (>5% annual growth) and is showing symptoms of being capacity constrained, including rising patient wait times for admission from the Emergency Department. With the …
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Predictors of Carbapenem Resistant Gram-negative Bacteria in a Consortium of Academic Medical Center Hospitals
… University HealthSystem Consortium affiliated academic medical centers. Antibiotic use data between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2009 were obtained from billing records and reported as days of therapy per 1000 patient days (DOT/1000 PD), in addition to hospital characteristics (e.g. …
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Understanding diffusion of evidence-based community cancer care: A case study of network connections in an integrated health system
… Networks that connect community clinics and academic medical centers hold potential to address these disparities by creating avenues for knowledge diffusion and access to specialty care, but research on networks is mixed and understanding of the underlying diffusion and adoption processes is …
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Quantifying the patient population of ultra-orphan diseases: a case study in X-Linked Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia
… clinical phenotype to identify XLHED patients in medical records and/or claims data 2) Analyze patient registry data to identify characteristics that are unique to XLHED and distinguish XLHED from other ectodermal dysplasias 3) Develop a robust search algorithm to accurately identify XLHED …
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Three essays in economics
… community hospitals without an emergency room, academic medical centers are compensated 15% more for their services, and hospitals with an emergency room are compensated 7% more than those without.</p>
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Essays on health insurance
… community hospitals without an emergency room, academic medical centers are compensated 15% more for their services, and hospitals with an emergency room are compensated 7% more than those without.</p>
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Optimizing Opioid Prescription for Outpatient Surgery
… of standard prescribing guidelines. Multiple academic medical centers have developed opioid stewardship programs to study, optimize, and standardize opioid prescribing after surgery through consensus of all relevant stakeholders without changes to patient satisfaction or pain control. …
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Serving where we stand : specialty health care clinics and community engagement at a faith-based, urban anchor institution
Kerrick, Lizzie A. Anchor institutions play a vital role in their local communities and economies and have increasingly been expected to become active civic participants in improving health and well-being in their surrounding neighborhoods. This multicase study was conducted to understand how an …
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The Use of Oncology Electronic Health Record Databases to Assess the Effectiveness of Breast Cancer Treatment
… in poor capture of out-of-network encounters, medical procedures, or inpatient encounters, as well as missing data. Consequently, it is unknown whether these challenges can be overcome with currently available epidemiological and statistical methods, and ultimately if these data are suitable …