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developed intensively. The reduction in hospital bed capacity and inpatient care utilization has been accompanied by a decrease … in the average length of hospital stay. Russia has followed the European trend of service delivery concentration in … hospital-physician complexes, while the increase in the average size of hospitals is even more substantial. However …
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One of the major challenges in the Philippine health sector is to secure adequacy of appropriate health facilities. To address this problem, the Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP) was implemented by the Department of Health (DOH) in 2007. Specifically, HFEP aims to improve facilities...
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The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service to assess the impact of relaxing constraints on patient choice. We estimate a demand model to evaluate whether increased choice increased demand elasticity faced by hospitals...
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data on hospital management and service delivery from selected public and private hospitals. Our findings reveal the … longstanding challenges in hospital management and their limitations to provide even the most rudimentary components of medical …
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Health care providers such as hospitals and primary health care facilities form an integral part of any health system. Providers must have both financial sustainability, such that they are able to continuously deliver health care services without bankruptcy, and sufficient profits to maintain...
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market. Hospital administrators, in response to this competition, are placing increasing importance on improving the quality … influenced employee perceptions of SQ. Therefore, hospital managers should use TQM strategy to influence employee perceptions of … SQ. When promoting a TQM strategy, hospital managers should develop a clear vision for quality management within their …
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The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service to assess the impact of relaxing constraints on patient choice. We estimate a demand model to evaluate whether increased choice increased demand elasticity faced by hospitals...
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purpose, 5 healthcare processes from the surgical ward of a UK hospital are analysed through FMEAs, Root Cause Analysis and … study also uses 5 industrial examples (rail, marine, chemicals, construction, and animal hospital) to show how this is …
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