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This paper states that traditional facilities (i.e., hospitals, remote physician offices or referral care) may not be …
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record (EHR) systems among 3,331 non-federal hospitals in the USA. The results indicated that hospital's overall resource … capacity and resource use efficiency are important organisational factors for hospitals with basic and comprehensive EHR … systems. Moreover, hospitals affiliated with moderately centralised systems were more likely to adopt a higher level EHR …
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This paper shows how complexity theory can better enable hospitals to prepare for bioterrorism events. It briefly …
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US hospitals are investing in pharmacy information systems to meet accompanying technological and workload demands as … quality. Our research shows that US hospitals are actively involved in acquiring pharmacy information systems. One thousand … six hundred seventy one US hospitals or 32% have operational pharmacy information systems and 732 of them currently have …
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A nationally representative sample of 12,280 physicians was selected to investigate physician practices in 60 randomly selected communities. Multivariate analyses demonstrate that the more the physicians accept Medicare managed care patients, private or commercial insurance plans including...
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Hospitals in California have argued that because of hospital competition and managed care, their costs have increased …, this study attempts to test the hospitals' argument. Using California hospitals' financial and utilisation data for …-Cal patients has been greater than that for hospital inpatient revenues. The claim the hospitals are making may be warranted for …
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This study examines patient referrals by primary care physicians (PCP) with nurse practitioners and physician assistants (NP-PA) in their medical practices as compared to practices without them. The study uses data from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation community tracking study (CTS) Physician...
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Recent passage of legislation in Florida mandating the development of a statewide Medicaid managed care long-term care plan was initiated to facilitate the utilisation of home- and community-based long-term care services in place of high cost, non-skilled nursing home care. However, programme...
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