We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …

Purpose- Hospital length of stay (LOS) does not only signal the seriousness of illness, it can also lead to …,150 people who reported one or more overnight stays in a hospital, comes from the two waves of the Nigerian General Household … policymakers, hospital administrators and patients regarding health care reforms, planning for patients LOS, and planning for the …

Background: Economic research on hospital palliative care faces major challenges. Observational studies using routine … (N = 2674) based on diagnosis of a terminal illness and high risk of hospital mortality. We modelled our treatment … LOS as an additional covariate in regression as a proxy for complexity alongside diagnosis and comorbidity index. We …

care resource use (HCRU) and costs in patients admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 and aimed to estimate the one … 2020 in a tertiary hospital (n=1056) in Istanbul. Patient demographics, clinical and treatment characteristics at admission … include LOS, hospital costs, and univariate and generalized linear models to investigate influencing factors. The data were …

hospital using linked administrative health and social care data in Scotland. We make various assumptions about the probability … results show that telecare users are expected to spend a shorter time in hospital than non-users, holding other factors … length of stay in hospital, on average, than their counterparts, all things equal. Future research will involve conducting a …

Purpose- Hospital length of stay (LOS) does not only signal the seriousness of illness, it can also lead to …,150 people who reported one or more overnight stays in a hospital, comes from the two waves of the Nigerian General Household … policymakers, hospital administrators and patients regarding health care reforms, planning for patients LOS, and planning for the …

Despite the huge attention on the long average hospital length of stay (LOS) in Japan, there are limited empirical … reimbursement for hospital care is linked to the number of patient bed-days, where a “day” is defined as the period from one … midnight to the next. This “midnight-to-midnight” definition may incentivize health care providers to manipulate hospital …