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In Sweden, a national eHealth service providing Patient Accessible Electronic Health Records is now being widely deployed, with 400 000 users in January 2016. Although the Patient Data Act states that patients have a right to take part of their health records, the introduction has been...
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Summary In all health care systems exists governmental regulation, as the market for health is unanimously regarded as imperfect. The German health care market is a good example for a strongly regulated market in nearly each submarket, partially the determination of prices. Reimbursement of...
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Summary The demographic, technological and economic changes in Germany require a profound reform of the health care system, especially concerning the ambulant medical care. For many years too strict legal regulations prohibited the development of adequate care structures; the major reform of...
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Abstract In economic applications it is often the case that the variate of interest is non-negative and its distribution has a mass-point at zero. Many regression strategies have been proposed to deal with data of this type but, although there has been a long debate in the literature on the...
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emergency vehicles respond late and when they reach the hospital, precious time is lost in understanding the patient trauma … victims in time, which can happen when the emergency wing of a hospital has advance information about the trauma before the … patient reaches the hospital. Most hospitals lack communication infrastructure that allows them to coordinate with emergency …
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for Medicare recipients. The cost indicator includes Medicare charges; the quality of care indicators include hospital …
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treated with the highest degree of confidentiality. In practice it proves difficult to achieve this goal. In a hospital … evaluated through manual cross-checks internally and by a group of external experts. Consequently, the hospital's data …
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in hospital. Design/methodology/approach A response to existing literature and consideration of application to practice … an individual’s presenting condition at hospital admission may have fatal consequences. Originality/value The importance …
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two nursing homes and four nurses were interviewed in one hospital. A semi-structured interview guide was used for data …
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requests to all 206 NHS hospital Trusts in England requesting information on reported incidents of sexual assault against … reports of sexual assault on patients over 60 by hospital staff in the past five years. The findings also show that whilst the … violence against older people, most notably by Dr Hannah Bows, the issue of sexual assault happening whilst in hospital …
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