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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"hospital cost"”.
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Hospital cost containment in Massachusetts
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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Hospital Cost Functions and Quality
… quality when included in the specification of a hospital cost function. Also, this research estimates a value for scale economies in order to determine if the average hospital experiences increasing returns to scale in the production of hospital care, verifying such findings in previous …
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Hospital cost inflation : economic approaches for policy analysis.
Thesis. 1979. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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Mathematical tools and budgetary mechanisms for hospital cost control
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Harvard--Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology Program in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, 1985.
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Measurement of Hospital Performance: Environmental and Organizational Factors Associated with Cost
… and business, the focus is on measuring cost. As hospitals account for over one-third of health care expenses, hospital cost per admission is a common measure of performance.</p> <p>Many environmental and organizational factors come into play in determining hospital cost per admission. …
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The effect of cost, competition, profit and cost containment policy on hospital quality of care
The effects of cost containment and related factors on hospital quality of care were studied. A major purpose of this study was to explore the usefulness of Peer Review data in quality of care research. National data (50 states) and a 119-hospital sample from three states with strict cost …
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A cost-effectiveness analysis of alternative tuberculosis control programs in rural Zambia
… to tuberculosis management in order to find cost-effective approach. Both patient and health system cost data were used. Hospital cost data were collected from a mission hospital in rural Zambia for the periods 1989 and 1997. Patient cost data were collected from a sample of 50 patients in …
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Two Attempted Investigations into the Complexities of Staphylococcal Disease
… infections. A comparison study was made of the hospital expenses of a group of hospitalized patients whose apparently clean surgical wounds developed staphylococci, and a comparable group whose surgical wounds healed without infection.</p> <p>A review of approximately one hundred medical records …
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Homebased healthcare : issues and challenges
Healthcare costs in United States are projected to rise to 20% of GDP by 2015. This is a cause of major concern and current political debate. The largest contributor to this cost is the hospital cost accounting for 30 % to the healthcare expenditure. Segmenting healthcare through new delivery …
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Minority Physician Job Satisfaction: An Analysis Of Extrinsically-controlled Organizational Factors
… over non-medical workplace decisions; and hospital cost containment efforts. These organizational variables have served as major points of discourse within the healthcare arena and they relate to the enigmatic nature of career satisfaction. Determined by the volume of respondents …
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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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Information Technology Outsourcing in U.S. Hospital Systems
… management theory (SMT) and transaction cost economics (TCE) as they apply to vertical integration in the health care sector; therefore, IS sourcing behavior was conceptualized as a case of vertical integration. The conceptual model proposed that sourcing behavior would be determined by …
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An evaluation of hospital efficiency in Nigeria : a stochastic frontier approach
… welfare, are met. However, in the face of rising hospital costs and insufficient government funds, the issue of effectively allocating government funds to alternative uses becomes paramount. The setting for this research paper is Nigeria. This research work aims at investigating how well financial …
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Biomarkers and Factors related to Risk of Acute Kidney Injury
… with increased mortality, morbidity, length of hospital stay, and in-hospital cost. Timely intervention is needed to prevent disease progression, but the delay in diagnostic process often results in delayed treatment. Recent studies show a significant increase in novel urine biomarkers (UB), …
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Is Optimum Time to Coronary Artery bypass Surgery Associated With Hospital Teaching Status and Payer Source? A Comparison of Outcomes and Costs Among Non St Segment Elevated Myocardial Infarction Patients and St Segment Elevated Myocardial Infarction Patients
… treatment. Previous studies have investigated costs among patients receiving CABG; however, none have addressed differences in mean costs of care related to payer source and time to CABG surgery. We posit that greater resource use is associated with the payer providing the most favorable …
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Healthcare Outcomes and Resource Utilization Associated with Neonatal Hypoglycemia: Analysis of Data from the HCUP Kid’s Inpatient Database
… risk factors. Contextual risk factors such as hospital characteristics, neighborhood economic status, and regional variations were not considered in earlier studies. Additionally, although healthcare resources utilization of hypoglycemia has been adequately addressed in the adult population, …
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The Effectiveness of a Central Line Care and Maintenance Bundle to Promote Consistency and Compliance in Central Line Care
… known as CRBSIs, are one of the many preventable hospital acquired infections. CRBSIs directly affect mortality rate among hospitalized patients across the nation. Traditionally, the focus has been on preventing CRBSIs during central line insertion by implementing evidence based practices (EBPs) …
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Selective non-operative management of abdominal gunshot wounds at Groote Schuur Hospital : a cohort study of clinical outcomes and financial costs
… or mortality in patients and decreases total hospital costs. [Methods] A retrospective cohort study of257 consecutive patients admitted to a level I trauma centre in South Africa for the management of abdominal gunshot wounds over a one year period from I April 2004 to 31 March 2005 was …
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Etiological Characterization of Emergency Department Acute Poisoning
… order to improve patients' management and reduce cost. The primary objective of this study is to conduct a review of emergency department (ED) poisonings to characterize its demographics and assess associated co-morbidities. The second objective is to explore correlation between personal history …
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Análise do comportamento financeiro de contas médicas em eventos cirúrgicos, comparado a índices inflacionários de preços e mercado de saúde
… its crisis by the lack of more analysis of its costs and variations. The regulation of the supplementary sector is still crude. The immense health challenges and the searches for solution are a constant for better sizing and handling the process. Several factors are pressuring the model, …