• The specific cost outcomes we rates of postdischarge SSI between 2% and 14% have been seek to explain are listed in online Appendix 1 (available reported ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • ViV TAVI demonstrated better early outcomes, including reduced 30-day mortality, risk of bleeding, and hospital length of stay. (hospitalhealthcare.com)
  • To inform staffing legislation actively under consideration in two other US states (New York, Illinois), we sought to determine whether staffing varies across hospitals and the consequences for patient outcomes. (bmj.com)
  • Numerous studies and systematic reviews have described wide variation across hospitals in registered nurse (RN) staffing and have concluded that better hospital nurse staffing is associated with more favourable patient outcomes, including lower mortality, 1-8 fewer complications, 9 higher patient satisfaction, 10 11 shorter stays and fewer readmissions, 12 13 as well as better nurse outcomes such as less burnout. (bmj.com)
  • Dr. Staudenmayer was promoted to Associate Professor of Surgery in 2016, and continues her research, policy and advocacy work to improve the care and outcomes for patients with traumatic injuries and critical surgical illnesses. (stanford.edu)
  • We used the Hospital Episodes Statistics database to investigate unwarranted variation in the rates Trusts discharged children the same day after scheduled tonsillectomy and associations with adverse postoperative outcomes. (bvsalud.org)
  • Emergent versus elective cholecystectomy: conversion rates and outcomes. (jamanetwork.com)
  • The secondary outcomes were complication and readmission rates, with Clavein-Dindo grade III or greater deemed clinically significant. (ox.ac.uk)
  • BACKGROUND: Discharge planning is the development of an individualised discharge plan for the patient prior to leaving hospital for home, with the aim of containing costs and improving patient outcomes. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Hospital Discharge inal hysterectomies and lower segment caesarean sections. (cdc.gov)
  • 67.1% [corrected] of patients who had been discharged with medical conditions and 51.5% of those who had been discharged after surgical procedures were rehospitalized or died within the first year after discharge. (nih.gov)
  • Among patients who were rehospitalized within 30 days after a surgical discharge, 70.5% were rehospitalized for a medical condition. (nih.gov)
  • Discharge planning from hospital. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The aim of discharge planning is to reduce hospital length of stay and unplanned readmission to hospital, and to improve the co-ordination of services following discharge from hospital.This is the third update of the original review. (ox.ac.uk)
  • OBJECTIVES: To assess the effectiveness of planning the discharge of individual patients moving from hospital. (ox.ac.uk)
  • It is uncertain whether discharge planning reduces readmission rates for patients admitted to hospital following a fall (RR 1.36, 95% CI 0.46 to 4.01, 2 trials, very low certainty evidence). (ox.ac.uk)
  • AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: A discharge plan tailored to the individual patient probably brings about a small reduction in hospital length of stay and reduces the risk of readmission to hospital at three months follow-up for older people with a medical condition. (ox.ac.uk)
  • In this study, we applied a generic prediction model to nationwide discharge data from hospitals with various characteristics. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In this study, we applied a generic case-mix-based risk adjustment model for in-hospital mortality prediction to hospitals with varying characteristics, and evaluated its performance for benchmarking risk-adjusted hospital mortality using a nationwide database of discharge cases. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The interventions included in the review were offered by hospital staff (eg, physicians, nurses, or other allied health professionals), and could involve the provision of advice, intensive counselling, pharmacotherapy and follow-up contact after hospital discharge. (bmj.com)
  • However, additional data production requires funding and resources, and it would be beneficial if the required information could be produced using existing administrative data such as hospital discharge registers. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Discharge planning from hospital to home. (ox.ac.uk)
  • It has been suggested that discharge planning can reduce unplanned readmission to hospital. (ox.ac.uk)
  • SELECTION CRITERIA: Randomised trials and controlled trials comparing discharge planning with routine discharge for hospital patients. (ox.ac.uk)
  • There was a small reduction in hospital length of stay for elderly medical patients allocated to discharge planning (weighted mean difference -1.01, 95% CI -2.06 to 0.05). (ox.ac.uk)
  • The effects of discharge planning on readmission rates were mixed. (ox.ac.uk)
  • No statistically significant differences were reported for overall health care costs, although one study reported a significant reduction in readmission costs for medical patients allocated to discharge planning. (ox.ac.uk)
  • There is some evidence that discharge planning may lead to reduced hospital length of stay, and in some cases reduced readmission to hospital. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Accuracy for other complications such as deep vein thrombosis, hemorrhage, severe constipation, and fracture/dislocation was lower, influenced by low event prevalence rates within our sample. (jmir.org)
  • While our methods enabled detection of events outside of index institutions, assessment of accuracy of self-report for presence and absence of events and nonresponse bias analysis, low event prevalence rates, particularly for several of the complications, limit the conclusions that may be drawn for some of the findings. (jmir.org)
  • More surgical complications, investigate the immediate and future effects of CS on hospital readmissions and problems in subsequent health ( 3 ). (who.int)
  • This retrospective study aimed to assess the effects of demographics, immediate post-surgical complications and impact of time to surgical intervention on the outcome of neonates with open SB (OSB) admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital (IALCH) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (SA), between January 2011 and December 2015.Methods. (bvsalud.org)
  • Ten percent required readmission secondary to shunt complications, and 7% died. (bvsalud.org)
  • Method: we undertook a 3-year retrospective study of the profile and surgical management, including the postoperative complications among Neonates admitted into the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU). (bvsalud.org)
  • Both received new spending, funded through a combination of new taxes and cuts to Medicare provider rates and Medicare Advantage. (wikipedia.org)
  • We analyzed Medicare claims data from 2003-2004 to describe the patterns of rehospitalization and the relation of rehospitalization to demographic characteristics of the patients and to characteristics of the hospitals. (nih.gov)
  • Dr. McHugh has been instrumental in Penn's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Graduate Nurse Education (GNE) Demonstration Project- a $40 million Demonstration project under the Affordable Care Act, which provides reimbursement through the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (one of only five hospitals nationally) for the reasonable cost of clinical training for advanced practice registered nursing students. (upenn.edu)
  • In a study of Medicare patients undergoing general, orthopedic, and vascular surgery, the Penn researchers found that hospitals with better nurse staffing and a better work environment had significantly fewer 30-day readmissions. (upenn.edu)
  • His work has shown that hospitals with better levels of nurse staffing are much less likely to be penalized under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. (upenn.edu)
  • In addition, a major source of financial pressure for hospitals are the costs of complying with a complex web of local, state and federal regulations, excessive commercial payer administrative requirements, and chronic underpayments by the Medicare and Medicaid programs. (aha.org)
  • It is well documented that neither Medicare nor Medicaid covers the cost of caring for its beneficiaries, and hospitals often struggle to make up for these financial losses. (aha.org)
  • Exacerbating this pressure is the fact that Medicare and Medicaid account for most hospital utilization. (aha.org)
  • This link provides a summary of the Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). (cardiovascular.abbott)
  • Last year, MedPAC recommended that Medicare payment rates for office visits should be the same regardless of if care is provided in an outpatient department (OPD) or in a freestanding physician's office. (crfb.org)
  • The recommendation also includes a stop-loss policy to limit the loss of Medicare revenue for hospitals that provide services to a disproportionate share of low-income Medicare patients. (crfb.org)
  • In contrast, Medicare and Medicaid - the two largest government health insurance programs - regulate the rates that providers receive. (who.int)
  • these included the type of surgical procedure, high cost suggests that programs that reduce the risks of duration of surgery, American Society of Anesthesiologists postdischarge SSI should be adopted, but decision makers score, wound class, number of coexisting conditions, should assess the cost-effectiveness of additional preven- length of hospital stay, whether patient was funded by the tion efforts. (cdc.gov)
  • Our hospital was the positioning of the first ever coronary heart surgical procedure in Baton Rouge, we created the very first diabetes program, and we opened the primary burn middle and chemical dependency facilities in the state. (dansealsforcongress.com)
  • The relative contraindications to outpatient thyroidectomy have been highlighted, including: complex medical conditions, anticipated difficult surgical dissection, patients on anticoagulation, lack of home support, and patient anxiety toward an outpatient procedure. (bvsalud.org)
  • Consid- for hospitals, financial reimbursements and quality of ering the potential risks, it was strongly recommended to maternity services are some of the reasons rooted in the restrict performing the procedure to medically indicated health system ( 9 ). (who.int)
  • Laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) is a procedure that uses laparoscopic surgical techniques and instruments to remove the uterus, cervix, and/or fallopian tubes and ovaries through the vagina. (medscape.com)
  • Blinding will not be possible as the surgical scars for each procedure differ. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study aims to identify the risk factors and reasons for treatment abandonment for patients with esophageal atresia (EA) in a tertiary care hospital in China. (frontiersin.org)
  • A retrospective study was conducted on 360 patients with EA admitted to Beijing Children's Hospital between January 1, 2007 and June 1, 2020. (frontiersin.org)
  • After the diagnosis of EA, parents of 107 patients refused surgical repair and discharged against medical advice, and 253 patients underwent surgical repair. (frontiersin.org)
  • 52 patients were discharged in an unstable condition, and parents of seven patients abandoned resuscitation leading to death in the hospital. (frontiersin.org)
  • The prognosis for patients with EA/TEF has greatly improved with advances in surgical techniques and preoperative and postoperative care. (frontiersin.org)
  • There is no doubt that treatment abandonment may lead to the worsening or death of patients and increase the chance of readmission. (frontiersin.org)
  • made by multiplying frequency with a cost vector for the Data were collected from surgical patients in the hos- item of service ( 9-12 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Direct oral anticoagulant-related medication incidents and pharmacists' interventions in hospital in-patients: evaluation using Reason's accident causation theory. (ahrq.gov)
  • 1 Dr. Parma explained this is likely due to increasing comorbidities in patients, resulting in contraindications to anticoagulants, and further predicts that, in the majority of countries, the number of TAVI procedures will soon exceed those of surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). (hospitalhealthcare.com)
  • From 2011 to 2019 there was a large change in the surgical risk scores for patients receiving TAVI, moving from higher/intermediate risk to low-risk patients. (hospitalhealthcare.com)
  • We used standardized data of 1,878,767 discharged patients provided by 469 hospitals from July 1 to October 31, 2006. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We used an electronic, standardized dataset of discharged patients provided by 469 hospitals that participated in a Japanese patient classification system and related evaluation scheme from July 1 to October 31, 2006. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Mergers and acquisitions are important tools that some hospitals use to manage financial pressures and increase access to care for patients. (aha.org)
  • Without mergers, some hospitals could shutter, patients could lose access to care and communities could suffer. (aha.org)
  • This is particularly important for rural hospitals, where mergers and acquisitions have played a critical role in preserving access to care for patients and communities. (aha.org)
  • Hospital mergers and acquisitions can bring measurable benefits to patients and communities, including lower health care costs, improved quality and better access to health care. (aha.org)
  • The importance of this initiative is given further credence with the recent news from NHS England Referral-to-Treatment statistics that 100 times more patients are waiting over a year for elective hospital treatment compared to this time last year. (bads.co.uk)
  • Methods Survey data from nurses and patients in 254 hospitals in New York and Illinois between December 2019 and February 2020 document associations of nurse staffing with care quality, patient experiences and nurse burnout. (bmj.com)
  • Results Mean staffing in medical-surgical units varied from 3.3 to 9.7 patients per nurse, with the worst mean staffing in New York City. (bmj.com)
  • One-third of patients rated their hospitals less than excellent and would not definitely recommend it to others. (bmj.com)
  • As the COVID-19 pandemic progressed across the UK and Northern Ireland in March 2020, our otolaryngology department began to make preparations and changes in practice to accommodate for potentially large numbers of patients with COVID-19 related respiratory illness in the hospital. (bvsalud.org)
  • With an overall survey completion rate of 76.8% (285/371), patients were found to have accuracy of self-report characterized by a kappa of 0.80 and agreement of 0.99 and a kappa of 1.00 and agreement of 1.00 for 90-day hospital admissions and pulmonary embolism, respectively. (jmir.org)
  • In this multicenter observational cohort study using an automated internet-based digital patient engagement platform, we found that patients were most accurate self-reporters of 90-day hospital admissions and pulmonary embolism, followed by 90-day surgical site infection and emergency room/urgent care visits. (jmir.org)
  • The commission urged Congress to "equalize payment rates" or at least reduce the disparities, for doctor's office visits and hospital clinic visits in which similar patients receive the same or similar services. (crfb.org)
  • Development and evaluation of the universal ACS NSQIP surgical risk calculator: a decision aid and informed consent tool for patients and surgeons. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Neighborhood poverty rate and mortality in patients receiving critical care in the academic medical center setting. (jamanetwork.com)
  • If you are an emergency room physician, anesthesiologist, trauma surgeon, or critical care physician, then the answer is no because you will have a full slate of patients your first day in the hospital. (hospitalmedicaldirector.com)
  • New plans for shifting hospital costs and services in Harford, Cecil and Kent counties are generating controversy, some misunderstandings, and some real concerns about forcing area patients to travel long distances to obtain hospital care or being denied transfer to facilities with more advanced services. (ceciltimes.com)
  • Volunteer fire companies that provide most of the ambulance transports to hospitals in the area are concerned that their crews could be tied up for hours by having to transport patients to two facilities or travel greater distances. (ceciltimes.com)
  • Hospital-initiated smoking cessation interventions increase the likelihood that patients will become smoke-free. (bmj.com)
  • However, this method of consultation is not the mainstay for preoperative assessment and counselling of patients for common surgical procedures such as laparoscopic cholecystectomy. (ox.ac.uk)
  • CONCLUSIONS: Our series showed that it is safe and feasible to assess and counsel patients for laparoscopic cholecystectomy remotely with a minimal cancellation rate on the day of operation. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Fifth, the most effective programs had timely information on when patients were admitted to a hospital, so they could quickly begin working on the new needs the patient would have and capitalize on the learning opportunity presented by the crisis that got them admitted to the hospital. (avancehealth.com)
  • Patients and methods: Cross-sectional multicenter study with 104 patients scheduled for a first-time, elective CRT implantation in Swedish and Icelandic hospitals. (edu.au)
  • Patients had on average 8.2 (±4.7) health complaints and rated fatigue and sexual problems as the most severe. (edu.au)
  • These expectations are similar to those of other surgical patients and they increase with age. (edu.au)
  • four recruited patients with a mix of medical and surgical conditions, and one of these recruited medical and surgical patients as separate groups. (ox.ac.uk)
  • We aim to recruit 500 patients from approximately 28 secondary care orthopaedic units from across the UK including district general and teaching hospitals. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Accuracy of self-report of 90-day emergency room/urgent care visits and of surgical site infection were characterized by a kappa of 0.45 and agreement of 0.96 and a kappa of 0.53 and agreement of 0.97, respectively. (jmir.org)
  • A Charles River Associates analysis for the AHA shows that hospital acquisitions are associated with a statistically significant 3.3% reduction in annual operating expenses per admission at acquired hospitals, along with a 3.7% decrease in net patient revenue per adjusted admission. (aha.org)
  • For example, Dr. McHugh and colleagues have focused on an area that had been largely ignored in efforts to lower readmissions: the variation in nursing resources and work environments across hospitals. (upenn.edu)
  • It highlights significant room for improvement with wide variation in day surgery rates across the UK. (bads.co.uk)
  • Both of these workstreams have considered the BADS directory of procedures and how variation in day surgery pathways can be addressed to achieve the target day case rates set by BADS. (bads.co.uk)
  • Inaccurate preference cards also affect documentation charges, since many hospitals utilize preference cards as the starting point for charging, and significant variation from these items could result in missed charges. (healthtrustpg.com)
  • Variation in hospital mortality associated with inpatient surgery. (jamanetwork.com)
  • There were no significant differences in demographics or event prevalence rates between responders and nonresponders. (jmir.org)
  • Data were collected with the Knowledge Expectations of hospital patient Scale, European Heart Failure Self-care Behavior Scale, and Adjusted Postoperative Recovery Profile. (edu.au)
  • Dr. McHugh has also carried out a number of studies evaluating the impact of nurse practitioner scope-of-practice restrictions and Medicaid reimbursement rates on access to care. (upenn.edu)
  • It includes information on the Readmissions Reduction Program, Value Based Purchasing, and Hospital Inpatient Reimbursement Rates. (cardiovascular.abbott)
  • And transfers from Union Hospital in Elkton for more advanced services that now are generally provided at the nearby Christiana Care facility in Delaware-which is a nationally-ranked teaching hospital- could be re-directed to the distant Bel Air operation which has fewer specialty services. (ceciltimes.com)
  • Important consideration is the relatively low intervention cost compared to the reduction in costs related to readmissions for illnesses associated with continued smoking. (bmj.com)
  • Changes in hospital-acquired conditions and mortality associated with the hospital-acquired condition reduction program. (ahrq.gov)
  • Building upon the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program enacted under the ACA, MedPAC recommends several changes to improve the measurement of hospital readmissions. (crfb.org)
  • 1Health Management and Economics Department, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.2Health Economics and Management Department, Health Information Management Research Centre, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to: Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad: [email protected]). (who.int)
  • Communication training, adverse events, and quality measures: 2 retrospective database analyses in Washington State hospitals. (ahrq.gov)
  • Key findings include reduced length of stay, reduced readmission rates, improved Medicines Appropriateness Index, improved Medicines Administration Error rate, positive impact on Risk Adjusted Mortality Index and improved communication across the primary/secondary care interface. (bmj.com)
  • Her clinical and research interests have contributed to Stanford's multi-disciplinary approach to the management of surgical trauma. (stanford.edu)
  • Dr. Staudenmayer's clinical focus is on trauma, emergency general surgery, and surgical critical care, and her research interests encompass trauma systems of care and vulnerable patient populations such as the elderly. (stanford.edu)
  • The clinical data are equivocal as to whether TURis shortens the hospital stay. (springer.com)
  • Clinical experts suggest that most hospitals replacing their capital equipment for transurethral resection of the prostate would opt for a bipolar system rather than a monopolar system. (springer.com)
  • The importance of day surgery as the major contributor to the future of surgical services and a key to increasing productivity as we work through the Covid-19 pandemic has been recognised by the Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) NHS Improvement Programme, who in collaboration with BADS and the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) have recently published the National Day Surgery Delivery Pack. (bads.co.uk)
  • Conclusions Hospital nurses were burned out and working in understaffed conditions in the weeks prior to the first wave of COVID-19 cases, posing risks to the public's health. (bmj.com)
  • Physicians come and go, contracts and products are updated, and surgical techniques evolve. (healthtrustpg.com)
  • This approach can be applied with physicians across multiple hospitals. (healthtrustpg.com)
  • In addition, private practice, defensive due to the controversy on the optimum CS rate in 2015 medicine, financial incentives and convenience induce and emphasized that a rate greater than 10% had no bene- physicians to perform more CSs ( 9 ). (who.int)
  • At our hospital, physicians have a lot of different employment models with some employed by the University, some in small group practices, some who are in solo practices, and some that are in large multi-specialty practices with hundreds of physicians. (hospitalmedicaldirector.com)
  • A few Massachusetts hospitals and physicians have long experience with risk. (blogspot.com)
  • Medication safety pharmacy technician in a large, tertiary care, community hospital. (ahrq.gov)
  • All-Payer Model for hospitals, which shifted the state's hospital payment structure from an all-payer hospital rate setting system to an all-payer global hospital budget that encompasses inpatient and outpatient hospital services. (who.int)
  • With over 10 years of consulting experience, has overseen and managed many healthcare strategic performance improvement solutions across the continuum in prestigious academic medical centers, children and pediatric facilities, large IDN's and community hospitals during her healthcare career. (healthtrustpg.com)
  • And another constant is the unique status of Maryland as the only state in the nation with a federally-endorsed program to regulate hospital rates under a Health Services Cost Review Commission, an independent body set up by the state in the 1970s. (ceciltimes.com)
  • This exercise requires valid estimates of the public sector or private insurance, admitting hospital, sex, change in costs and benefits from additional prevention age, ethnicity, patient's socioeconomic status ( 14 ), whether programs ( 6,7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Reducing rates of rehospitalization has attracted attention from policymakers as a way to improve quality of care and reduce costs. (nih.gov)
  • Merging with a hospital system can help some hospitals ease these financial burdens and improve patient care by providing scale to help reduce costs associated with obtaining medical services, supplies and prescription drugs, and enable health systems to reduce other operational costs. (aha.org)
  • Mergers with larger hospital systems can provide community hospitals the scale and resources needed to decrease costs by increasing administrative efficiencies and reducing redundant or duplicative services. (aha.org)
  • Background: Outpatient thyroid surgery is gaining popularity as it can reduce length of hospital stay, decrease costs of care, and increase patient satisfaction. (bvsalud.org)
  • The rates reflect the costs that the typical efficient provider is expected to incur. (who.int)
  • The commission was created to address spiraling hospital costs, fueled in part by the world-class care provided by the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland with its pioneering Shock-Trauma center. (ceciltimes.com)
  • An AHA analysis of the UNC Sheps Center rural hospital closure data between 2010 and 2020 showed that even though most rural community hospitals are affiliated with a health system, less than half of the hospitals that have been closed were system affiliated. (aha.org)
  • Participants were hospital inpatients. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Twenty-one trials recruited older participants with a medical condition, five recruited participants with a mix of medical and surgical conditions, one recruited participants from a psychiatric hospital, one from both a psychiatric hospital and from a general hospital, and two trials recruited participants admitted to hospital following a fall. (ox.ac.uk)
  • There was also little evidence regarding mortality for participants recovering from surgery or who had a mix of medical and surgical conditions. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The participants were admitted for 5-7 days in the hospital. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We modelled the cost-effectiveness of the Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation (OMSC), an intervention that includes in-hospital counselling, pharmacotherapy and posthospital follow-up, compared to usual care among smokers hospitalised with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), unstable angina (UA), heart failure (HF), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (bmj.com)
  • She was subsequently double-boarded in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. (stanford.edu)
  • There is a provision of the law ("Chapter 176T, Risk-bearing Provider Organizations") that was written to provide some assurance that provider organizations--physician organizations, physician-hospital organizations, independent practice associations, provider networks, accountable care organizations and any other organization that contracts with carriers for payment for health care services--would be financially capable of bearing the risk of alternative payment contracts. (blogspot.com)
  • Further work is needed to understand the effect of remote consultations on patient satisfaction, its environmental impact, and possible benefits to healthcare economics to support its routine use in general surgery. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Unadjusted mortality rates were calculated with Kaplan-Meier methods and compared with log-rank test. (jamanetwork.com)
  • A preference card is like the ingredient list for surgical procedures," says Drew Preslar , AVP of Advisory Services, HealthTrust. (healthtrustpg.com)
  • Caesarean section (CS), the surgical mode of birth, was a third of CS procedures, about 6 million worldwide each introduced to save the lives of mothers and infants, and year, were unnecessary in 2010 ( 5 ). (who.int)
  • BACKGROUND: The telemedicine clinic for follow up after minor surgical procedures in general surgery is now ubiquitously considered a standard of care. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Few studies have examined whether risk adjustment is evenly applicable to hospitals with various characteristics and case-mix. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Recent enthusiasm for outcome evaluation such as in-hospital mortality, however, has been challenged because of the difficulties of ensuring adequate risk adjustment for different patient populations, an indispensable factor for fairly evaluating healthcare performance [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Since the calculation of risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality is often conducted for benchmarking purposes, whether the risk adjustment model is applicable to hospitals with varying characteristics and case-mix must be clarified. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To date, few studies have examined whether case-mix risk adjustment can be evenly applied such hospitals. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Havens JM, Olufajo OA, Cooper ZR, Haider AH, Shah AA, Salim A. Defining rates and risk factors for readmissions following emergency general surgery [published online November 11, 2015]. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Treatment abandonment for children with EA/TEF is not merely a simple medical problem, but a complex challenge involving ethics, health economics, sociology and other fields. (frontiersin.org)
  • ORs ranged from 1.15 to 1.52 for nurses on medical-surgical units and from 1.32 to 3.63 for nurses on intensive care units. (bmj.com)
  • Dr. McIntosh completed his General Surgical residency at the Detroit Medical Center where he was the administrative chief his final year. (healthtrustpg.com)
  • Dr. Kristan Staudenmayer received her medical degree at the University of Texas at Southwestern Medical School in 1999, and completed her residency in General Surgery at Parkland Hospital in 2006. (stanford.edu)
  • The major advantage of this surgery is that it requires only one hospital stay and rehabilitation period to recover both knees. (biomedcentral.com)
  • She obtained further training in Trauma and Surgical Critical at San Francisco General Hospital, completing her training in 2008. (stanford.edu)
  • Limited data from a single study suggest that TURis may reduce the rate of readmission after surgery. (springer.com)
  • Data from one randomised study suggest that TURis may substantially reduce the rate of readmission (due to any cause) following surgery in comparison with mTURP. (springer.com)
  • Health information technology and hospital patient safety: a conceptual model to guide research. (ahrq.gov)
  • papers from his AHRQ-funded study evaluating the impact of a California law mandating minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals have been published in leading policy journals including Health Affairs and The Milbank Quarterly . (upenn.edu)
  • A recent report released by the AHA details the extraordinary financial pressures continuing to affect hospitals and health systems, as well as access to patient care. (aha.org)
  • TURis is a bipolar surgical system for treating men with lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic enlargement. (springer.com)
  • Some will have experienced a rate of premium growth lower than the average, and others will have experienced a rate above the average. (blogspot.com)
  • An company filling a world economist position may require data of international economics. (dansealsforcongress.com)
  • thus, these data also provide a real-time example of the public health implications of chronic hospital nurse understaffing. (bmj.com)
  • When an additional scenario based on the only available data on readmission (due to any cause) from a single trial was modelled, the estimated cost saving per case was £375.02 for existing users of Olympus electrosurgery equipment and £284.66 per case when new Olympus equipment would need to be purchased. (springer.com)
  • Hospitals and health systems have seen input cost increases for other essential operational services, as well, such as IT, sanitation, facilities management, and food and nutrition. (aha.org)
  • 1981 ), their introduction and employment has been relatively slow to be widely accepted in health economics, policy, and management. (oxfordre.com)
  • Objective: To study the profile and management of CNS malformation in a tertiary hospital. (bvsalud.org)
  • To address these issues, CDEHA promotes the study of trends in demography, economics, health, and health care, and the effects of these trends on the well-being of the elderly. (stanford.edu)
  • In many areas, health care delivery is relatively self-contained-perhaps consisting of a major hospital, a few smaller ones, and several primary care providers. (mckinsey.com)
  • Under these rate-setting systems, the federal or state government establishes how much providers are paid for health care services. (who.int)
  • I'd like to suggest that a factor in the differential premium growth rates relates to whether companies have affirmatively counteracted the strategic plans of health insurers to migrate employees to plans that correspond to greater use of health care services. (blogspot.com)
  • Barriers and facilitators related to the implementation of surgical safety checklists: a systematic review of the qualitative evidence. (ahrq.gov)
  • However, the dataset used in the previous study was derived mainly from large university-affiliated teaching hospitals, which may compromise the ability to generalize results to a broader array of hospitals. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The primary outcome was the cancellation rate on the day of surgery. (ox.ac.uk)
  • After residency, Dr. McIntosh joined the staff at William Beaumont Hospital Troy where he does the majority of his surgery. (healthtrustpg.com)
  • Meanwhile, in Kent County, a full-service hospital in Chestertown is proposed for cutback to just a freestanding emergency room, with serious cases requiring travel to Easton-a 90-minute drive from Rock Hall. (ceciltimes.com)
  • UM wants to close the aging Havre de Grace full service hospital and replace it with a new, limited services free-standing emergency room at Bulle Rock, still within the Havre de Grace municipal limits. (ceciltimes.com)
  • His research has influenced policy and practice nationally, particularly around nurse staffing legislation, Magnet hospital credentialing, and hospital performance monitoring. (upenn.edu)
  • This is a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about negotiation theory and practice, leadership training and mentoring, and teaching. (blogspot.com)
  • During her post-graduate training, she conducted NIH T32-funded research at Harborview Hospital evaluating the effects of innate immunity on trauma. (stanford.edu)
  • Ironically, the Chestertown saving grace is attached to a broader bill that would expedite the consolidation of hospital services in Harford County. (ceciltimes.com)