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 …

benchmark the unit costs of hospital services in public providers in Jordan to provide insights into the outlook for public … health care costs. Methods: The unit costs of hospital services per admission, inpatient days, outpatient visits, emergency …

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 …

Background and Objective: The studies measured Out-of-Pocket Expenditure (OOPE) for hospital births previously suffer … from serious data limitations. To overcome such limitations, we designed a hospital-based study for measuring the levels … and factors of OOPE on maternity care for hospital births by its detailed components. Methods: Data were collected from …

/community participation in healthcare, not much has been achieved in this regard particularly in resource constrained countries like Ghana …, where over 70 % of communities in rural areas access basic healthcare from primary health facilities. Systematic Community … Engagement (SCE) in healthcare quality assessment remains a grey area in many health systems in Africa, albeit the increasing …