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The Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program is Medicare’s implementation of yardstick incentives applied to …’ individually optimal investment policies, we estimate the trajectory of quality improvements for each hospital, including its … more focused program tailored to hospital type. We find that increasing the size of the incentives from 2% to 4% would have …
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Healthcare organizations in Germany exploit the benefits of the ISO 9000 family of international standards as it became compulsory to implement a quality management system in accordance with ISO 9001 requirements. Until the innovative ISO 9001:2015 proposal it was no direct connection to the...
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“white coat” workers (doctors and nurses) about the hospital training offer. This work presents similarities and differences … between assessments of doctors and nurses. A short description of the hospital as well as its weaknesses and strengths has … use of the quality map in the process of hospital management. This tool allows us to get answers about which areas …
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In the midst of epidemics such as COVID-19, therapeutic candidates are unlikely to be able to complete the usual multiyear clinical trial and regulatory approval process within the course of an outbreak. We apply a Bayesian adaptive patient-centered model—which minimizes the expected harm of...
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The paper investigates the effects of nursing overtime on nosocomial infections and medical accidents in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The literature lacks clear evidence on this issue and we conjecture that this may be due to empirical and methodological factors. We thus focus on a...
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