Malnutrition is a highly prevalent risk factor in hospitalized patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). A recent … randomized trial found lower mortality and improved health outcomes when CHF patients at nutritional risk received individualized … nutritional treatment.To estimate the cost-effectiveness of individualized nutritional support in hospitalized patients with CHF …

Assessment of German Health Care Providers -- The Role of Health Plans, Employers and Patients in Health Care Delivery … Germany failed to solve these cost and quality problems? The reason is that Germany has not set value for patients as the … Germany to a high value system: care must be reorganized around patients and their medical conditions, providers must compete …

innovative policies, which improve operational efciency and achieve the best value for money for patients. This study aims to … develop a Decision Support Tool (DST) that assesses the impact of implementing new DVT patients’ management and care policies … was validated and verifed by various stakeholders and two policies, namely shifting more patients to community services …

, particularly for the provision of hospital care to publicly funded patients. Independent sector (IS) providers of hospital services … competition between state owned and independent hospitals to provide care to publicly funded patients. Within the independent …