• Correction to: Systematic review and meta-analysis of public hospital efficiency studies in Gulf region and selected countries in similar settings. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The main outcome indicators were the changes in the allocation of pediatricians and pediatric beds, pediatric service efficiency, and the impact of pediatricians on child mortality. (frontiersin.org)
  • allocating resources in healthcare, measuring the effectiveness of existing and proposed solutions on health outcomes and efficiency of the health system. (edu.au)
  • and priorities for the allocation and organization of resources that are based on equity and economic efficiency. (who.int)
  • As hospitals explore new sources of revenue and patients cross borders to seek medical treatment, cooperation between healthcare teams is key. (olympus.se)
  • In the complex ecosystem of healthcare, hospitals must strike a delicate balance between patient care, technological advancement, and financial sustainability. (sdexpmedical.com)
  • This article delves into the multifaceted economics of operating table investment for hospitals, examining the factors that influence decision-making, the potential returns on investment, and the strategic implications for healthcare institutions. (sdexpmedical.com)
  • Hospitals must adhere to strict regulatory requirements in the healthcare sector. (sdexpmedical.com)
  • it influences patient outcomes, physician satisfaction, hospital reputation, and the institution's overall trajectory in the healthcare landscape. (sdexpmedical.com)
  • CON laws, first instituted in New York in 1964 and popularized with the 1974 introduction of the National Health Planning and Resource Development Act, were designed with the intent of keeping healthcare costs low and ensuring access to crucial medical resources by impoverished citizens. (mercatus.org)
  • These laws often consist of an application and review procedure both for hospital requests to expand resources or services and for nonhospital healthcare services such as ambulance access. (mercatus.org)
  • Governments would be making the decisions on the healthcare needs of patients rather than hospitals and doctors. (mercatus.org)
  • States with CON laws not only exhibit shortages of healthcare facilities including hospital beds, imaging facilities, ambulatory surgical centers, dialysis clinics, and hospitals themselves, but also have higher death rates from heart failure and post-operative complications . (mercatus.org)
  • Public hospitals that do internet healthcare only allow certain treatment to be reimbursed through social health insurance. (edu.hk)
  • Using mortality and hospital capacity data, we find that states without CON laws between mid-March and late June 2020 had fewer hospital deaths than states with CON laws and that more than half of these lives saved were non-COVID patients. (mercatus.org)
  • Generally, inequalities in the distribution of health care resources were lower at the end of the study period, although there was potential for more equitable distribution of pharmacists, specialists, health houses and beds. (who.int)
  • However, the shortage of pediatricians and inequalities in the distribution of pediatric resources exist in all countries, including developed countries. (frontiersin.org)
  • Please complete the form below if you want to learn more about how we can create sustainable value for your hospital organization together. (olympus.se)
  • Patients who do not fit these criteria or patients who are too ill to undergo the prolonged wait at the government hospitals avail themselves of nongovernment organization (NGO) services in order to take HAART medications. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Political economists - including the advocates of capitalism - defined their science as the study of the management or direction or organization or manipulation of a "community's" or a nation's "resources. (aynrand.org)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic would not, in any circumstance, be considered predictable, as states saw a surge of thousands of people lined up in ERs who were desperately in need of hospital beds and long-term acute care. (mercatus.org)
  • Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers had found that states with these laws in place had 99 fewer hospital beds per 100,000 people, and between one and two fewer hospitals with MRI machine capabilities per 500,000 people. (mercatus.org)
  • Per capita total expenditure on health, and number of physicians, nurses and midwives and hospital beds per 1000 people were used as inputs. (who.int)
  • Hospitals must assess the potential for cost-effective patient outcomes, reduced post-operative complications, and shortened hospital stays, all of which contribute to improved resource allocation and financial sustainability. (sdexpmedical.com)
  • METHODS: With the involvement of stakeholders from a number of DVT services in the UK, we developed a DST combining discrete event simulation (DES) for DVT pathways and the Socio Technical Allocation of Resources (STAR) approach, an agile health economics technique. (bvsalud.org)
  • ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate inequalities in the geographical distribution of human and physical resources in the health sector of Kermanshah province, Islamic Republic of Iran. (who.int)
  • New state-of-the-art and disruptive technologies may thus help to provide an edge over other hospital organizations. (olympus.se)
  • Using the universe of patient transitions from inpatient hospital care to skilled nursing facilities and home health care in 2005, we show how integration eliminates task misallocation problems between organizations. (editjems.org)
  • We find that vertical integration allows hospitals to shift patient recovery tasks downstream to lower-cost organizations by discharging patients earlier (and in poorer health) and increasing post-hospitalization service intensity. (editjems.org)
  • This is important given the mismatch between care demand and resources and the resulting need for improving operational and economic outcomes. (bvsalud.org)
  • Reductions in surgical complications, shorter hospital stays, increased patient satisfaction, and improved surgical outcomes all contribute to the economic value of the investment. (sdexpmedical.com)
  • Although integration facilitates a shift in the allocation of tasks and resources, health outcomes either improved or were unaffected by integration on average. (editjems.org)
  • ViV TAVI demonstrated better early outcomes, including reduced 30-day mortality, risk of bleeding, and hospital length of stay. (hospitalhealthcare.com)
  • A resource issue in hospitals creates many problems such as the excessive number of patients, poor service quality, lack of diagnostic tools and equipment, dirty and worn out facilities, long queues at the outpatient clinic, lack of drugs and other medical supplies, low employee morale, and so on. (taylorfrancis.com)
  • A number of experts and scholars from medical insurance management departments, pharmaceutical experts and medical insurance experts of medical institutions, and academia conducted in-depth discussions on hot issues of pharmaceutical economics at the theoretical and practical levels respectively. (ispor.org)
  • With this short message on March 22, 2014, the missionary doctor in the small hospital where I worked part-time informed the medical team of eight about the outbreak of a strange and deadly disease in a village in Guinea, just across the border from Liberia. (lshtm.ac.uk)
  • Medical policies should address the distinction between resource limitations and futility to promote legitimacy in end-of-life decision making. (bmj.com)
  • Some of these trends and challenges bring about risks as well as opportunities for patients, hospitals and the medical technology industry alike. (olympus.se)
  • In China, hospitals account for only 3.5 percent of medical institutions but handle a massive 45 percent of all outpatient visits. (edu.hk)
  • As I am informed, to meet an increasing need of medical services with limited resources, not only for an aging, but also over and above that for a growing population is the problem in Mexico. (forumfed.org)
  • The beneficiaries, who will be identified on the basis of deprivation and occupational criteria using the 2011 socio-economic caste census, will be able to access the services anywhere in the country in government hospitals and in participating private hospitals (provided that their states have signed up). (upenn.edu)
  • 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)
  • Fortunately, there were some physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators who were interested in improving drugrelated services and expanding the role of pharmacists, and they allocated resources to pharmacists to let them demonstrate what they could do. (harveywhitney.org)
  • Skeptics and critics were plentiful and included physicians, hospital administrators, and hospital pharmacists. (harveywhitney.org)
  • Even so, clinical services are not provided to patients and physicians in even a majority, let alone all, of U.S. hospitals. (harveywhitney.org)
  • Currently, the national HAART centers are located in a few district hospitals (in the high- and medium-prevalence states) and have very stringent criteria for enrolling PLHA. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The national rollout is currently located in a few district hospitals and is undergoing a scale-up with more government centers due to open in the course of 2006. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Will clinical pharmacy services in hospitals survive the 1980s? (harveywhitney.org)
  • I would like to share with you some aspects of my yes answer and identify what hospital pharmacy practitioners and pharmacy educators need to do differently in the 1980s to ensure that clinical pharmacy services will survive and thrive. (harveywhitney.org)
  • Current rapid changes within hospital care, catalyzed by the continually increasing costs of that care, make it mandatory that hospital pharmacists assess the past and the present to plan for the future of clinical pharmacy services. (harveywhitney.org)
  • More pharmacists are providing clinical services than ever before in university hospitals and large and small community hospitals. (harveywhitney.org)
  • The main economic problem of resource allocation in hospitals are production and cost function. (taylorfrancis.com)
  • This book specifically discusses on the aspect of hospital resource allocation by highlighting the productivity, competitiveness, cost components, economic burden of disease, and economic aspects of infectious diseases originating from the hospital. (taylorfrancis.com)
  • The resource management issue highlight the economic scale, human resource development, quality development, and lean implementation. (taylorfrancis.com)
  • I am an Affiliate Professor at the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, Professor in the School of Economics and affiliate member of the ARC Centre for Research Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) at The University of Queensland. (edu.au)
  • Centre for Health Economics. (who.int)
  • The major challenges are to apply an effective health system reform, find alternative ways of funding, reduce the burden of diseases, promote healthy life styles, develop and retain human resources and introduce advanced technology while assuring equity, quality and accessibility. (who.int)
  • The highest Gini coefficient for human resources was observed for pharmacists in 2005 (0.75) and the lowest for paramedics in 2010 and 2011 (0.10). (who.int)
  • Human resources' usage can be greatly lowered driven mainly by offering NOAC treatment to more patients. (bvsalud.org)
  • Hospital-initiated smoking cessation interventions increase the likelihood that patients will become smoke-free. (bmj.com)
  • Patients expect the highest standards of care and technological advancement during their hospital experiences. (sdexpmedical.com)
  • Fundamental research regarding nursing economics and policy development for quality of life evaluation of patients with pressure ulcers. (nii.ac.jp)
  • Because of the CON laws in place, the hospital was unable to acquire additional resources outside of the hospital and instead borrowed from its non-COVID hospital wing to treat COVID patients. (mercatus.org)
  • The rationale behind the CON requirement is that the hospital with the CT machine would many patients, keeping overhead costs per patient low. (mercatus.org)
  • Patients don't want to go to these rural facilities, and go straight to the bigger [urban] hospitals. (edu.hk)
  • It compounds the problem of overcrowding where patients go to hospitals for conditions that are relatively minor. (edu.hk)
  • Those patients with complaints about minor aches and pains are treated online, like online triage, to reduce overcrowding and long waiting times at hospitals. (edu.hk)
  • Contexte: Pour contrôler la propagation de la maladie à coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) causée par le syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère coronavirus-2 (SRAS-CoV-2), il est nécessaire d'identifier et d'isoler de manière adéquate les patients infectieux, en particulier sur le lieu de travail. (bvsalud.org)
  • Knowing the magnitude and timing of an outbreak helps public health decision makers plan interventions on many levels, from vaccination campaigns to human resource allocation at hospitals. (lshtm.ac.uk)
  • 2 Rigotti and colleagues recently updated a review and meta-analysis of studies examining the efficacy of hospital-initiated smoking cessation interventions. (bmj.com)
  • Joint discharge or financing of state functions is admitted in certain areas defined by the Basic Law in order to secure important investments such as investments for university hospitals or for restructuring the hospital care sector of the eastern part after reunification of Germany. (forumfed.org)
  • The Gini coefficients of PPTC and PBPTC decreased from 0.48 and 0.38 in 2010, to 0.35 and 0.28 in 2014, then to 0.35 and 0.22 in 2019, respectively, representing the improvement of pediatric resources distribution according to service population. (frontiersin.org)
  • Officially the hospitals say this is not allowed but they recognise they can't stop it," Prof. Cheng concedes while pointing out that senior doctors often advertise their positions at public hospitals to charge higher fees. (edu.hk)
  • 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)
  • The evidence suggests that integration solves coordination problems that arise in market exchange through improvements in the allocation of tasks across care settings. (editjems.org)
  • William E. Smith "The 1980s is a decade of rapid change in the financing of hospital care. (harveywhitney.org)
  • This hospital is subject to certificate-of-need (CON) laws, which means that there are government-imposed limitations on the number of CT scanners, respirators, and many other long-term acute care services available. (mercatus.org)
  • By means of decentralizing resources and better allocation is aimed to expand and to improve the delivery of health care. (forumfed.org)
  • Hospitals seeking to attract and retain top-tier surgical talent must offer state-of-the-art equipment. (sdexpmedical.com)
  • Reduced complication rates, decreased surgical times, and enhanced patient recovery contribute to a healthier financial outlook for hospitals. (sdexpmedical.com)
  • Minimized downtime due to maintenance or repairs ensures that surgical schedules remain uninterrupted, optimizing hospital resources. (sdexpmedical.com)
  • These two functions related to issues of equality and effectiveness of the hospital. (taylorfrancis.com)
  • In the first year, we calculated that provision of the OMSC to 15 326 smokers would generate 4689 quitters, and would prevent 116 rehospitalisations, 923 hospital days, and 119 deaths. (bmj.com)
  • Results From the hospital payer's perspective, delivery of the OMSC can be considered cost effective with 1-year cost per QALY gained of $C1386, and lifetime cost per QALY gained of $C68. (bmj.com)
  • Firstly, in any modern society we need an economy - a means of working out what to spend our labour and resources on, how much and what to produce, and who should get how much of the various goods and services made available. (libcom.org)
  • Doctors can advertise their services on these platforms, effectively functioning as contractors on a private sector platform while listing their positions at public hospitals as a signal of their credentials. (edu.hk)
  • RESULTS: Sixteen possible scenarios were run on the model for a period of 5 years and generated treatment activity, human resources, costing, and value for money outputs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Objective To increase knowledge of how doctors perceive futile treatments and scarcity of resources at the end of life. (bmj.com)
  • The professional literature of the midâ€"1960s documented many patient drugâ€"related problems in hospitals. (harveywhitney.org)
  • The second, and more controversial, rationale is the doctor believes the expected efficacy of the treatment is too small to merit the expenditure of public resources (distributive justice). (bmj.com)
  • Long waiting times are a common complaint, made worse by the lack of a unified identification system that means additional paperwork when visiting a hospital for the first time. (edu.hk)
  • 10 (ii) the capacity of a system to distribute resources among competing activities, in a way that no alternative reallocation offers improvements in returns. (who.int)
  • This study builds on previous work that found some doctors include resource limitations in their understanding of the concept of futility. (bmj.com)
  • Results Doctors' perceptions of whether resource limitations were relevant to their practice varied, and doctors were more comfortable with explicit rather than implicit rationing. (bmj.com)
  • Several doctors incorporated resource limitations into their definition of futility. (bmj.com)
  • For some, availability of resources was one factor of many in assessing futility, secondary to patient considerations, but a few doctors indicated that the concept of futility concealed rationing. (bmj.com)
  • Doctors experienced moral distress due to the resource implications of providing futile treatment and the lack of administrative supports for bedside rationing. (bmj.com)
  • The issue of generation resources, includes how the hospital is able to get the resources to run operations without having to cover the access of stratum of community thus violating the principle of equality. (taylorfrancis.com)
  • This form of dual practice is very different from the traditional form of dual practice where there is separation between a doctor's main job at a hospital and that at another clinic at the end of the day. (edu.hk)
  • However, the decision to invest in operating tables is far from arbitrary-it involves intricate considerations of economics, long-term value, and the broader impact on hospital operations. (sdexpmedical.com)
  • BACKGROUND: Responding to the increasing demand for Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) treatment in the United Kingdom (UK) at times of limited budgets and resources is a great challenge for decision-makers. (bvsalud.org)
  • 1 Many of the chronic diseases caused by cigarette smoking result in frequent hospitalisation making the hospital an ideal setting to initiate cessation treatment. (bmj.com)
  • This hospital has also been combating a large outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in the local community, and its resources are stretched to the limit. (mercatus.org)
  • In the application, a hospital must prove that its requested expansion would serve an "unmet need of the community. (mercatus.org)
  • No need to weight community health programmes for resource allocation? (who.int)
  • This book will highlight the issue of generation resources by including a discussion of the revenue components of the hospital and the impact of DRGs. (taylorfrancis.com)
  • Discussion The OMSC appears to be cost-effective from the hospital payer perspective. (bmj.com)
  • This means, for example, if CT scanning were available at one hospital, a different hospital within the same city might not be able to also offer this service. (mercatus.org)
  • ALLOCATION (how is the money distributed among service providers - both in terms of amounts, and of payment methods? (powershow.com)