Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients … hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and Mexico. We develop a continuum-of-care conceptual framework based on prior … that leads to more complex admissions; (ii) hospital inefficiency; and (iii) lack of rehabilitation, social, and long …

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 …

, cross-sectional study of clinical and financial records for all ED visits to an urban, academic hospital in 2001 …, hospital inpatient length of stay, payment method, costs, and demographics. Results: Patients with three to 20 visits were more … likely to be admitted to the hospital than patients visiting once or twice. Patients visiting more than 20 times were less …

Health -- Crisis in the Hospital -- Rise of the Payvider : Aligning Incentives -- Training Doctors -- The Promise and Peril …

implementation of national clinical practice guidelines and a regulation of the supply of hospital care by centralization to fewer … procedures in hospital care by mitigating slow adoption of new knowledge and reducing variation in the adoption of new medical …

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 …