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Effects of the application of project management techniques on health care project success : a study of Badagry General Hospital, Lagos State
Olateju, Ibrahim - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 17 (2017) 4, pp. 725-741
study of Badagry General Hospital, Lagos State. Survey research design was adopted for this study. Copies of the …
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Patient choice in the post-Semashko health care system
Šiškin, Sergej A.; Burdyak, Alexandra; Potapčik, Elena G. - 2013
The opportunity for patient choice in the health care system in CIS countries was created by the partial destruction of the referral system and the development of paid medical services. The data of two population surveys conducted in Russia in 2009 and 2011 show that patient choice of medical...
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Mind the information gap : fertility rate and use of cesarean delivery and tocolytic hospitalizations in Taiwan
Ma, Ke-zong M.; Norton, Edward C.; Lee, Shoou-yih D. - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 20, pp. 1-15
Background: Physician-induced demand (PID) is an important theory to test given the longstanding controversy surrounding it. Empirical health economists have been challenged to find natural experiments to test the theory because PID is tantamount to strong income effects. The data requirements...
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Cost-Effectiveness of Related Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Versus Chemotherapy for Consolidation Treatment to Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Pediatric Patients
García Molina, Mario - 2013
Methods: A decision tree model was built with life years gained as outcome, from the perspective of the health system, and including all direct costs. Pharmaceutical prices were obtained from the System of Information of Medicaments SISMED (2008), and the value of procedures was calculated from...
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Analysis of Costs, Length of Stay, and Utilization of Emergency Department Services By Frequent Users : Implications for Health Policy
Prah Ruger, Jennifer - 2007
, 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 …
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Do Physicians Respond to Liability Standards?
Frakes, Michael - 2014
In this paper, we explore the sensitivity in the clinical decisions of physicians to the standards of care expected of them under the law, drawing on the abandonment by states over time of rules holding physicians to standards determined by local customs and the contemporaneous adoption of...
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A Two-Stage Estimation of Hospital Quality Using Mortality Outcome Measures : An Application Using Hospital Administrative Data
Chua, Chew Lian - 2011
supposition that there exists an abstract quality index which drives all observed mortality outcomes in each hospital. This … hospital administrative data from the state of Victoria, Australia. Using the quality estimates, we show that teaching … related to hospital size …
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Waiting times for outpatient treatment in Germany : new experimental evidence from primary data
Heinrich, Nils; Wübker, Ansgar; Wuckel, Christiane - 2017
Long waiting lines are a common feature and a major concern in many public health care delivery systems. The waiting lines are often characterized as inefficient, because they are a burden to patients without generating any gains for providers. There is an ongoing debate in Germany regarding the...
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The closer the better : does better access to outpatient care prevent hospitalization?
Elek, Petér S.; Molnár, Tamás; Váradi, Balázs - 2018
-level panel data for years 2008-2015 show that the number of outpatient visits increased by 19% and the number of inpatient stays …
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Milestones in implementation of an integrated management system in the health sector : case study Radiologische Netzwerk Rheinland
Nagel-Picioruş, Claus; Nagel-Picioruş, Luciana; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016) 42, pp. 432-445
Healthcare organizations in Germany exploit the benefits of the ISO 9000 family of international standards as it became compulsory to implement a quality management system in accordance with ISO 9001 requirements. Until the innovative ISO 9001:2015 proposal it was no direct connection to the...
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