"This book focuses on the emerging phenomena of international travel by patients in search of improved healthcare services and treatment, wellness programs, and complementary recreational activities"--Provided by publisher.

"This book offers a framework for measuring quality of service in the healthcare industry as it pertains to nursing, with insight into how new technologies and the design of personalized medicine have improved quality of care and quality of life"--Provided by publisher.

1. Introduction to ranking models -- 2. Data visualization and data summary -- 3. Statistical methods -- 4. Predictive modeling versus regression -- 5. The Charleston Comorbidity Index -- 6. The all patient refined diagnosis related group -- 7. Risk adjustment based upon resource utilization --...

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Insights into the search behavior of non-medical professionals based on task difficulty and an evaluation against new generation medical information retrieval strategies / Anushia Inthiran, Saadat M. Alhashmi, Pervaiz K. Ahmed -- Indicating fields of inequalities regarding the access to health...

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The recent rapid advances in wireless technologies have created a demand for high quality multimedia applications and services. These advanced multimedia applications give rise to a new set of challenges in providing Quality of Service (QoS) when delivering these services over wireless networks....