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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Hospital volume"”.
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Factors Associated with Asthma Readmissions in Children's Hospitals
… chronic illness of childhood. Pediatric asthma hospitalization rates and costs of care have risen in recent years. Readmissions, an adverse outcome often used to monitor quality of care, may account for the increase in asthma hospitalization rates. This research examined selected hospital and …
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Does process quality of inpatient care matter in potentially preventable readmission rates?
… thirty-day potentially preventable hospital readmission (PPR) rates. Data Sources/Study Setting: This was an observational cross-sectional study of nonfederal acute-care hospitals located in two states California and Florida, discharging Medicare patients with a principal discharge …
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Essays on the health economics of hospital quality
This thesis consists of three essays on hospital quality of inpatient care for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the United States. First, it explores issues in the measurement of quality, particularly through the estimation of risk-adjusted mortality rates (RAMRs) for hospitals. …
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Trend and Impact of Nephrectomy Centralisation on Renal Cell Carcinoma Survival
… resections for urological cancers to high volume centres. During the same period, advancements in surgical technology such as laparoscopic and robotic surgery were emerging together with the adoption of nephron-sparing surgery in the management of small renal tumours. It is not known how …
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Clinical problems in thyroid surgery
… TT in patients with Graves´ disease were low hospital volume, operative time, university hospital and reoperation due to postoperative hematoma. Risk factors for treatment with vitamin D at discharge increased with operative time, weight of the specimen, parathyroid autotransplantation and …