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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Hospital services"”.
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Professional roles and the commercialization of hospital services: A case study of medical laboratory scientists
In the last twenty years, the NHS has been undergoing great changes. There have been moves towards what may be termed, the commercialization of the service, originating from the general management movement of the Griffith's Report (1983), privatisation moves and the more recent 'internal market …
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Efficient Bundling and Unbundling of Hospital Services: An Examination of Scale and Scope Economies in the Hospital Industry
The hospital industry is currently engaged in a process of establishing free standing facilities for the treatment of certain patients, such as emergency or outpatient surgery clinics. This "unbundling" of services from the traditional hospital setting has motivated researchers to study the …
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The California Bridge Model For Emergency Department-Initiated Medication-Assisted Treatment For Opioid Use Disorder: Adaptations For Perinatal Hospital Services
… safe, effective, and can be rapidly adopted by hospital systems to improve access to care for people who misuse opioids. Like the Emergency Department, perinatal hospital services are well positioned to serve as critical access points in the treatment of perinatal opioid use disorder. However, …
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Impact of the 1983 Medicare Regulations on ten food service facilities in Kentucky
Five areas of hospital foodservice management, including; Inpatient Services, Cafeteria Services, Special Foodservices, Out-of-Hospital Services and Consolidation of Services, were studied to determine the impact of the 1983 Medicare Prospective Payment System. Ten Kentucky hospital foodservice …
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The Competitive Effects of Health Maintenance Organizations
… a dynamic model of an HMO; a model of a hospital providing services on a cost-based retrospective basis; and a hospital providing services to both charge-paying and cost-paying patients. From these models, two hypotheses emerge: (1) an increase in HMO presence in a market will lead to a …
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Modeling zero-inflated and overdispersed count data: application to in-hospital mortality data
… hyperchloremia is associated with increased in-hospital mortality. Length of hospital stay (LOS) is often used as an indicator of hospital efficiency, a proxy of resource consumption and is especially important in organizing hospital services. Such data often have a highly right-skewed …
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Regionalization of health services in the Cape Province : a framework
… exposed to the day-to-day management of health services and experience at first hand, the difficulties as well as the successes that are encountered in tending to the health needs of communities. It is also expected that post-graduate students do research projects during their attachments, …
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Modelling intermediate care services as part of an integrated care pathway
… policy interventions - intermediate care - on hospital admissions, waiting times and length of stay of all patients. We tested and compared a number of alternative intervention points using a simulation model parameterised with service component data from the Department of Health Information …
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Staff allocation and cost analysis: application of a hospital patient flow model
In this thesis the applicability of a hospital patient flow model is used in addressing hospital resource allocation problems. Three separate but interrelated models are presented. First, the hospital patient flow model is discussed. The main feature of the hospital patient flow model is the matrix …
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Online Review Analytics: New Methods for discovering Key Product Quality and Service Concerns
… sources (Amazon product reviews and Facebook hospital service reviews). Stakeholders such as product designers and safety regulators can use the semi-automatic classification procedure to subcategorize safety concerns by injury type and narrative type (Chapter 1). We enhance the text …
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Children with Cerebral Palsy: Current needs and challenges in the Western Cape
… manifestations and causes of CP in two tertiary hospitals in the Western Cape. The study should lead to the establishment of a hospital-based paediatric CP registry. Although this PhD did not objectively review current management protocols to identify gaps, by examining the profiles of children …
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Implantação de práticas seguras para distribuição e dispensação de medicamentos potencialmente perigosos em um hospital oncológico da rede sentinela
… discussing about the reorganization of health services in Brazil, patient safety is highlighted in place when it comes to the quality of hospital services. This study aimed to establish a di stribution system and dispensing of more efficient drugs that through visual stimuli can alert health …
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Investigating prevalence and healthcare use of children with complex healthcare needs using data linkage. A study using multi-ethnic data from an ongoing prospective cohort: the Born in Bradford project
… with CA than those without CA. Demand for use of hospital services for children with CA was higher (Incident rate ratio (IRR) 4.38, 95% confidence interval (CI) 3.90 to 4.92) than demand for primary care services (IRR, 1.27, 95% CI 1.20 to 1.35). Conclusion: These results suggest that using …
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An economic analysis of hospital costs in New Zealand
… and methods to the analysis of New Zealand’s hospital services in order to ascertain how the costs of providing those services varies among hospitals and over time. Achievement of this objective at the same time enables an assessment to be made of the relevance of the various theoretical …
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Health Expenditures, Time to Death, and Age: A Study of Individual-level, Longitudinal Data to Identify the Combined Role of Age and Mortality in Determining Health Utilization of the Elderly
… in the years 1991-2001 in the categories of hospital services, continuing care, doctor billings, and pharmaceutical prescriptions. Expenditures for decedent and survivors of the same age are compared and are fitted to a model using age and time-to-death as explanatory factors. The partial …
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Hospital and care home nurse perspectives on optimising care for people living with dementia who transfer between hospitals and care homes
Background: Transitions out of hospital result in poor outcomes for older people. Research investigating transitions for care home residents living with dementia is limited, even though such residents often have multi-morbidities and frequently use hospital services. Nurses are key care providers. …
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Hospital and care home nurse perspectives on optimising care for people living with dementia who transfer between hospitals and care homes
Background: Transitions out of hospital result in poor outcomes for older people. Research investigating transitions for care home residents living with dementia is limited, even though such residents often have multi-morbidities and frequently use hospital services. Nurses are key care providers. …
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The politics and ideology of local authority health care in Sheffield 1918-1948
… health, education and transport. Health and hospital policies were closely related. In hospital policy the Council operated within a mixed economy of health care to provide a municipal general hospital service. Voluntary hospitals in Sheffield relied on a contributory hospital scheme after …
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A Comparison of the Utilization of Health Services in the Presence or Absence of Prescriptive Drug Insurance in a Managed Care Environment
… in the utilization of four types of health services in an independent practice association (IPA). The study employed the individual determinants component of the Andersen-Newman theoretical framework for health services utilization. Groups of employees in companies that offered health …
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Maternal Filicide: Grounded Theorising from Interviews with mothers with a diagnosis of mental illness
… those mothers still receiving care from secure hospital services (N=30). Findings: The present study produced grounded theorising of a process of Disintegrating Security in a number of sequentially related domains: social, economic, relational and psychological as contributing to MF. Consistent …
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