Hospitals, Teaching: Hospitals engaged in educational and research programs, as well as providing medical care to the patients.Hospitals, General: Large hospitals with a resident medical staff which provides continuous care to maternity, surgical and medical patients.Hospitals, University: Hospitals maintained by a university for the teaching of medical students, postgraduate training programs, and clinical research.Hospital Costs: The expenses incurred by a hospital in providing care. The hospital costs attributed to a particular patient care episode include the direct costs plus an appropriate proportion of the overhead for administration, personnel, building maintenance, equipment, etc. Hospital costs are one of the factors which determine HOSPITAL CHARGES (the price the hospital sets for its services).Hospitals, Urban: Hospitals located in metropolitan areas.Nursing Staff, Hospital: Personnel who provide nursing service to patients in a hospital.Economics, Hospital: Economic aspects related to the management and operation of a hospital.Hospitals, Pediatric: Special hospitals which provide care for ill children.Hospital Bed Capacity: The number of beds which a hospital has been designed and constructed to contain. It may also refer to the number of beds set up and staffed for use.Hospitals, Special: Hospitals which provide care for a single category of illness with facilities and staff directed toward a specific service.Hospitals, District: Government-controlled hospitals which represent the major health facility for a designated geographic area.Hospitals, Private: A class of hospitals that includes profit or not-for-profit hospitals that are controlled by a legal entity other than a government agency. (Hospital Administration Terminology, AHA, 2d ed)Financial Management, Hospital: The obtaining and management of funds for hospital needs and responsibility for fiscal affairs.Emergency Service, Hospital: Hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of immediate medical or surgical care to the emergency patient.Length of Stay: The period of confinement of a patient to a hospital or other health facility.Hospital Planning: Areawide planning for hospitals or planning of a particular hospital unit on the basis of projected consumer need. This does not include hospital design and construction or architectural plans.Hospital Charges: The prices a hospital sets for its services. HOSPITAL COSTS (the direct and indirect expenses incurred by the hospital in providing the services) are one factor in the determination of hospital charges. Other factors may include, for example, profits, competition, and the necessity of recouping the costs of uncompensated care.Hospital Departments: Major administrative divisions of the hospital.Hospitalization: The confinement of a patient in a hospital.Hospitals, Psychiatric: Special hospitals which provide care to the mentally ill patient.Retrospective Studies: Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.Hospital Records: Compilations of data on hospital activities and programs; excludes patient medical records.Hospital Units: Those areas of the hospital organization not considered departments which provide specialized patient care. They include various hospital special care wards.Equipment and Supplies, Hospital: Any materials used in providing care specifically in the hospital.Libraries, Hospital: Information centers primarily serving the needs of hospital medical staff and sometimes also providing patient education and other services.Surgery Department, Hospital: Hospital department which administers all departmental functions and the provision of surgical diagnostic and therapeutic services.Patient Admission: The process of accepting patients. The concept includes patients accepted for medical and nursing care in a hospital or other health care institution.Patient Discharge: The administrative process of discharging the patient, alive or dead, from hospitals or other health facilities.Hospitals, County: Hospitals controlled by the county government.Outpatient Clinics, Hospital: Organized services in a hospital which provide medical care on an outpatient basis.Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and overAmerican Hospital Association: A professional society in the United States whose membership is composed of hospitals.Hospitals, Municipal: Hospitals controlled by the city government.Food Service, Hospital: Hospital department that manages and supervises the dietary program in accordance with the patients' requirements.Hospital Information Systems: Integrated, computer-assisted systems designed to store, manipulate, and retrieve information concerned with the administrative and clinical aspects of providing medical services within the hospital.Cross Infection: Any infection which a patient contracts in a health-care institution.Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital: Hospital department responsible for the administration and management of services provided for obstetric and gynecologic patients.Prospective Studies: Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group.Hospitals, Religious: Private hospitals that are owned or sponsored by religious organizations.United StatesHospitals, Maternity: Special hospitals which provide care to women during pregnancy and parturition.Diagnosis-Related Groups: A system for classifying patient care by relating common characteristics such as diagnosis, treatment, and age to an expected consumption of hospital resources and length of stay. Its purpose is to provide a framework for specifying case mix and to reduce hospital costs and reimbursements and it forms the cornerstone of the prospective payment system.Time Factors: Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.Inpatients: Persons admitted to health facilities which provide board and room, for the purpose of observation, care, diagnosis or treatment.Patient Readmission: Subsequent admissions of a patient to a hospital or other health care institution for treatment.Infant, Newborn: An infant during the first month after birth.Nursing Service, Hospital: The hospital department which is responsible for the organization and administration of nursing activities.Hospital Shared Services: Cooperation among hospitals for the purpose of sharing various departmental services, e.g., pharmacy, laundry, data processing, etc.Laboratories, Hospital: Hospital facilities equipped to carry out investigative procedures.Risk Factors: An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.Cardiology Service, Hospital: The hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of diagnostic and therapeutic services for the cardiac patient.Hospital Bed Capacity, under 100EnglandQuality of Health Care: The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299Hospitals, Military: Hospitals which provide care for the military personnel and usually for their dependents.Bed Occupancy: A measure of inpatient health facility use based upon the average number or proportion of beds occupied for a given period of time.Hospitals, AnimalHospitals, Veterans: Hospitals providing medical care to veterans of wars.Tertiary Care Centers: A medical facility which provides a high degree of subspecialty expertise for patients from centers where they received SECONDARY CARE.Anti-Bacterial Agents: Substances that reduce the growth or reproduction of BACTERIA.Outcome Assessment (Health Care): Research aimed at assessing the quality and effectiveness of health care as measured by the attainment of a specified end result or outcome. Measures include parameters such as improved health, lowered morbidity or mortality, and improvement of abnormal states (such as elevated blood pressure).Health Facility Size: The physical space or dimensions of a facility. Size may be indicated by bed capacity.Questionnaires: Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.Purchasing, Hospital: Hospital department responsible for the purchasing of supplies and equipment.Intensive Care Units: Hospital units providing continuous surveillance and care to acutely ill patients.Medical Audit: A detailed review and evaluation of selected clinical records by qualified professional personnel for evaluating quality of medical care.Patient Transfer: Interfacility or intrahospital transfer of patients. Intrahospital transfer is usually to obtain a specific kind of care and interfacility transfer is usually for economic reasons as well as for the type of care provided.Costs and Cost Analysis: Absolute, comparative, or differential costs pertaining to services, institutions, resources, etc., or the analysis and study of these costs.Nurseries, Hospital: Hospital facilities which provide care for newborn infants.Follow-Up Studies: Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease.Medicare: Federal program, created by Public Law 89-97, Title XVIII-Health Insurance for the Aged, a 1965 amendment to the Social Security Act, that provides health insurance benefits to persons over the age of 65 and others eligible for Social Security benefits. It consists of two separate but coordinated programs: hospital insurance (MEDICARE PART A) and supplementary medical insurance (MEDICARE PART B). (Hospital Administration Terminology, AHA, 2d ed and A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, US House of Representatives, 1976)Incidence: The number of new cases of a given disease during a given period in a specified population. It also is used for the rate at which new events occur in a defined population. It is differentiated from PREVALENCE, which refers to all cases, new or old, in the population at a given time.Psychiatric Department, Hospital: Hospital department responsible for the organization and administration of psychiatric services.Ownership: The legal relation between an entity (individual, group, corporation, or-profit, secular, government) and an object. The object may be corporeal, such as equipment, or completely a creature of law, such as a patent; it may be movable, such as an animal, or immovable, such as a building.Postoperative Complications: Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.Health Services Research: The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services. Health services research is usually concerned with relationships between need, demand, supply, use, and outcome of health services. The aim of the research is evaluation, particularly in terms of structure, process, output, and outcome. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)Cross-Sectional Studies: Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a representative sample at one particular time. This contrasts with LONGITUDINAL STUDIES which are followed over a period of time.Housekeeping, Hospital: Hospital department which manages and provides the required housekeeping functions in all areas of the hospital.Quality Indicators, Health Care: Norms, criteria, standards, and other direct qualitative and quantitative measures used in determining the quality of health care.Cohort Studies: Studies in which subsets of a defined population are identified. These groups may or may not be exposed to factors hypothesized to influence the probability of the occurrence of a particular disease or other outcome. Cohorts are defined populations which, as a whole, are followed in an attempt to determine distinguishing subgroup characteristics.Oncology Service, Hospital: The hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of diagnostic and therapeutic services for the cancer patient.Surgical Procedures, Operative: Operations carried out for the correction of deformities and defects, repair of injuries, and diagnosis and cure of certain diseases. (Taber, 18th ed.)Health Care Surveys: Statistical measures of utilization and other aspects of the provision of health care services including hospitalization and ambulatory care.Age Factors: Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.Utilization Review: An organized procedure carried out through committees to review admissions, duration of stay, professional services furnished, and to evaluate the medical necessity of those services and promote their most efficient use.Referral and Consultation: The practice of sending a patient to another program or practitioner for services or advice which the referring source is not prepared to provide.Emergency Medical Services: Services specifically designed, staffed, and equipped for the emergency care of patients.Logistic Models: Statistical models which describe the relationship between a qualitative dependent variable (that is, one which can take only certain discrete values, such as the presence or absence of a disease) and an independent variable. A common application is in epidemiology for estimating an individual's risk (probability of a disease) as a function of a given risk factor.Health Facility Merger: The combining of administrative and organizational resources of two or more health care facilities.Medical Records: Recording of pertinent information concerning patient's illness or illnesses.Medication Systems, Hospital: Overall systems, traditional or automated, to provide medication to patients in hospitals. Elements of the system are: handling the physician's order, transcription of the order by nurse and/or pharmacist, filling the medication order, transfer to the nursing unit, and administration to the patient.Hospitals, Chronic Disease: Hospitals which provide care to patients with long-term illnesses.Emergencies: Situations or conditions requiring immediate intervention to avoid serious adverse results.Personnel Administration, Hospital: Management activities concerned with hospital employees.Catchment Area (Health): A geographic area defined and served by a health program or institution.Formularies, Hospital: Formularies concerned with pharmaceuticals prescribed in hospitals.Hospital-Physician Relations: Includes relationships between hospitals, their governing boards, and administrators in regard to physicians, whether or not the physicians are members of the medical staff or have medical staff privileges.Economic Competition: The effort of two or more parties to secure the business of a third party by offering, usually under fair or equitable rules of business practice, the most favorable terms.Admitting Department, Hospital: Hospital department responsible for the flow of patients and the processing of admissions, discharges, transfers, and also most procedures to be carried out in the event of a patient's death.Child, Hospitalized: Child hospitalized for short term care.Acute Disease: Disease having a short and relatively severe course.Personnel Staffing and Scheduling: The selection, appointing, and scheduling of personnel.Prevalence: The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from INCIDENCE, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time.BrazilMulti-Institutional Systems: Institutional systems consisting of more than one health facility which have cooperative administrative arrangements through merger, affiliation, shared services, or other collective ventures.Quality Assurance, Health Care: Activities and programs intended to assure or improve the quality of care in either a defined medical setting or a program. The concept includes the assessment or evaluation of the quality of care; identification of problems or shortcomings in the delivery of care; designing activities to overcome these deficiencies; and follow-up monitoring to ensure effectiveness of corrective steps.Health Facility Closure: The closing of any health facility, e.g., health centers, residential facilities, and hospitals.Guideline Adherence: Conformity in fulfilling or following official, recognized, or institutional requirements, guidelines, recommendations, protocols, pathways, or other standards.Hospitals, Group Practice: Hospitals organized and controlled by a group of physicians who practice together and provide each other with mutual support.Great BritainDay Care: Institutional health care of patients during the day. The patients return home at night.Infection Control: Programs of disease surveillance, generally within health care facilities, designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infections and their causative microorganisms.Risk Adjustment: The use of severity-of-illness measures, such as age, to estimate the risk (measurable or predictable chance of loss, injury or death) to which a patient is subject before receiving some health care intervention. This adjustment allows comparison of performance and quality across organizations, practitioners, and communities. (from JCAHO, Lexikon, 1994)Patient Satisfaction: The degree to which the individual regards the health care service or product or the manner in which it is delivered by the provider as useful, effective, or beneficial.Safety Management: The development of systems to prevent accidents, injuries, and other adverse occurrences in an institutional setting. The concept includes prevention or reduction of adverse events or incidents involving employees, patients, or facilities. Examples include plans to reduce injuries from falls or plans for fire safety to promote a safe institutional environment.Nigeria: A republic in western Africa, south of NIGER between BENIN and CAMEROON. Its capital is Abuja.Pregnancy: The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.Severity of Illness Index: Levels within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria applied to the seriousness of a patient's disorder.Wounds and Injuries: Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.Data Collection: Systematic gathering of data for a particular purpose from various sources, including questionnaires, interviews, observation, existing records, and electronic devices. The process is usually preliminary to statistical analysis of the data.Hospital-Patient Relations: Interactions between hospital staff or administrators and patients. Includes guest relations programs designed to improve the image of the hospital and attract patients.Uncompensated Care: Medical services for which no payment is received. Uncompensated care includes charity care and bad debts.Ancillary Services, Hospital: Those support services other than room, board, and medical and nursing services that are provided to hospital patients in the course of care. They include such services as laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and physical therapy services.Dental Service, Hospital: Hospital department providing dental care.Hospitals, High-Volume: Hospitals with a much higher than average utilization by physicians and a large number of procedures.Insurance, Hospitalization: Health insurance providing benefits to cover or partly cover hospital expenses.Multivariate Analysis: A set of techniques used when variation in several variables has to be studied simultaneously. In statistics, multivariate analysis is interpreted as any analytic method that allows simultaneous study of two or more dependent variables.Radiology Department, Hospital: Hospital department which is responsible for the administration and provision of x-ray diagnostic and therapeutic services.Transportation of Patients: Conveying ill or injured individuals from one place to another.Societies, Hospital: Societies having institutional membership limited to hospitals and other health care institutions.Risk Assessment: The qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences. (Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1988)LondonIndiaRegistries: The systems and processes involved in the establishment, support, management, and operation of registers, e.g., disease registers.Age Distribution: The frequency of different ages or age groups in a given population. The distribution may refer to either how many or what proportion of the group. The population is usually patients with a specific disease but the concept is not restricted to humans and is not restricted to medicine.Cost Allocation: The assignment, to each of several particular cost-centers, of an equitable proportion of the costs of activities that serve all of them. Cost-center usually refers to institutional departments or services.Health Care Costs: The actual costs of providing services related to the delivery of health care, including the costs of procedures, therapies, and medications. It is differentiated from HEALTH EXPENDITURES, which refers to the amount of money paid for the services, and from fees, which refers to the amount charged, regardless of cost.Malaysia: A parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch in southeast Asia, consisting of 11 states (West Malaysia) on the Malay Peninsula and two states (East Malaysia) on the island of BORNEO. It is also called the Federation of Malaysia. Its capital is Kuala Lumpur. Before 1963 it was the Union of Malaya. It reorganized in 1948 as the Federation of Malaya, becoming independent from British Malaya in 1957 and becoming Malaysia in 1963 as a federation of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore (which seceded in 1965). The form Malay- probably derives from the Tamil malay, mountain, with reference to its geography. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p715 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p329)Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital: Hospital department whose primary function is the upkeep and supervision of the buildings and grounds and the maintenance of hospital physical plant and equipment which requires engineering expertise.Myocardial Infarction: NECROSIS of the MYOCARDIUM caused by an obstruction of the blood supply to the heart (CORONARY CIRCULATION).Ambulatory Care: Health care services provided to patients on an ambulatory basis, rather than by admission to a hospital or other health care facility. The services may be a part of a hospital, augmenting its inpatient services, or may be provided at a free-standing facility.Medical Errors: Errors or mistakes committed by health professionals which result in harm to the patient. They include errors in diagnosis (DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS), errors in the administration of drugs and other medications (MEDICATION ERRORS), errors in the performance of surgical procedures, in the use of other types of therapy, in the use of equipment, and in the interpretation of laboratory findings. Medical errors are differentiated from MALPRACTICE in that the former are regarded as honest mistakes or accidents while the latter is the result of negligence, reprehensible ignorance, or criminal intent.Staphylococcal Infections: Infections with bacteria of the genus STAPHYLOCOCCUS.Attitude of Health Personnel: Attitudes of personnel toward their patients, other professionals, toward the medical care system, etc.CaliforniaDisease Outbreaks: Sudden increase in the incidence of a disease. The concept includes EPIDEMICS and PANDEMICS.Academic Medical Centers: Medical complexes consisting of medical school, hospitals, clinics, libraries, administrative facilities, etc.Home Care Services, Hospital-Based: Hospital-sponsored provision of health services, such as nursing, therapy, and health-related homemaker or social services, in the patient's home. (Hospital Administration Terminology, 2d ed)ScotlandCost Savings: Reductions in all or any portion of the costs of providing goods or services. Savings may be incurred by the provider or the consumer.Physician's Practice Patterns: Patterns of practice related to diagnosis and treatment as especially influenced by cost of the service requested and provided.Health Resources: Available manpower, facilities, revenue, equipment, and supplies to produce requisite health care and services.Chi-Square Distribution: A distribution in which a variable is distributed like the sum of the squares of any given independent random variable, each of which has a normal distribution with mean of zero and variance of one. The chi-square test is a statistical test based on comparison of a test statistic to a chi-square distribution. The oldest of these tests are used to detect whether two or more population distributions differ from one another.Medical Records Department, Hospital: Hospital department responsible for the creating, care, storage and retrieval of medical records. It also provides statistical information for the medical and administrative staff.Regression Analysis: Procedures for finding the mathematical function which best describes the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables. In linear regression (see LINEAR MODELS) the relationship is constrained to be a straight line and LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS is used to determine the best fit. In logistic regression (see LOGISTIC MODELS) the dependent variable is qualitative rather than continuously variable and LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS are used to find the best relationship. In multiple regression, the dependent variable is considered to depend on more than a single independent variable.Prognosis: A prediction of the probable outcome of a disease based on a individual's condition and the usual course of the disease as seen in similar situations.Health Services Misuse: Excessive, under or unnecessary utilization of health services by patients or physicians.SwitzerlandHealth Services Accessibility: The degree to which individuals are inhibited or facilitated in their ability to gain entry to and to receive care and services from the health care system. Factors influencing this ability include geographic, architectural, transportational, and financial considerations, among others.Centralized Hospital Services: The coordination of services in one area of a facility to improve efficiency.Governing Board: The group in which legal authority is vested for the control of health-related institutions and organizations.Spain: Parliamentary democracy located between France on the northeast and Portugual on the west and bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.Microbial Sensitivity Tests: Any tests that demonstrate the relative efficacy of different chemotherapeutic agents against specific microorganisms (i.e., bacteria, fungi, viruses).Hospitals, Low-Volume: Hospitals with a much lower than average utilization by physicians and smaller number of procedures.Cost Control: The containment, regulation, or restraint of costs. Costs are said to be contained when the value of resources committed to an activity is not considered excessive. This determination is frequently subjective and dependent upon the specific geographic area of the activity being measured. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)Benchmarking: Method of measuring performance against established standards of best practice.Hospitals, Packaged: Hospital equipment and supplies, packaged for long-term storage, sufficient to set up a general hospital in an emergency situation. They are also called Packaged Disaster Hospitals and formerly Civil Defense Emergency Hospitals.Patient Safety: Efforts to reduce risk, to address and reduce incidents and accidents that may negatively impact healthcare consumers.Patient Care Team: Care of patients by a multidisciplinary team usually organized under the leadership of a physician; each member of the team has specific responsibilities and the whole team contributes to the care of the patient.Databases, Factual: Extensive collections, reputedly complete, of facts and data garnered from material of a specialized subject area and made available for analysis and application. The collection can be automated by various contemporary methods for retrieval. The concept should be differentiated from DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC which is restricted to collections of bibliographic references.Practice Guidelines as Topic: Directions or principles presenting current or future rules of policy for assisting health care practitioners in patient care decisions regarding diagnosis, therapy, or related clinical circumstances. The guidelines may be developed by government agencies at any level, institutions, professional societies, governing boards, or by the convening of expert panels. The guidelines form a basis for the evaluation of all aspects of health care and delivery.Odds Ratio: The ratio of two odds. The exposure-odds ratio for case control data is the ratio of the odds in favor of exposure among cases to the odds in favor of exposure among noncases. The disease-odds ratio for a cohort or cross section is the ratio of the odds in favor of disease among the exposed to the odds in favor of disease among the unexposed. The prevalence-odds ratio refers to an odds ratio derived cross-sectionally from studies of prevalent cases.State Medicine: A system of medical care regulated, controlled and financed by the government, in which the government assumes responsibility for the health needs of the population.Netherlands: Country located in EUROPE. It is bordered by the NORTH SEA, BELGIUM, and GERMANY. Constituent areas are Aruba, Curacao, Sint Maarten, formerly included in the NETHERLANDS ANTILLES.Comorbidity: The presence of co-existing or additional diseases with reference to an initial diagnosis or with reference to the index condition that is the subject of study. Comorbidity may affect the ability of affected individuals to function and also their survival; it may be used as a prognostic indicator for length of hospital stay, cost factors, and outcome or survival.Outpatients: Persons who receive ambulatory care at an outpatient department or clinic without room and board being provided.Sex Factors: Maleness or femaleness as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from SEX CHARACTERISTICS, anatomical or physiological manifestations of sex, and from SEX DISTRIBUTION, the number of males and females in given circumstances.Canada: The largest country in North America, comprising 10 provinces and three territories. Its capital is Ottawa.Health Facility Environment: Physical surroundings or conditions of a hospital or other health facility and influence of these factors on patients and staff.Cost-Benefit Analysis: A method of comparing the cost of a program with its expected benefits in dollars (or other currency). The benefit-to-cost ratio is a measure of total return expected per unit of money spent. This analysis generally excludes consideration of factors that are not measured ultimately in economic terms. Cost effectiveness compares alternative ways to achieve a specific set of results.Survival Rate: The proportion of survivors in a group, e.g., of patients, studied and followed over a period, or the proportion of persons in a specified group alive at the beginning of a time interval who survive to the end of the interval. It is often studied using life table methods.Emergency Treatment: First aid or other immediate intervention for accidents or medical conditions requiring immediate care and treatment before definitive medical and surgical management can be procured.Insurance, Health, Reimbursement: Payment by a third-party payer in a sum equal to the amount expended by a health care provider or facility for health services rendered to an insured or program beneficiary. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)Pneumonia: Infection of the lung often accompanied by inflammation.Intensive Care: Advanced and highly specialized care provided to medical or surgical patients whose conditions are life-threatening and require comprehensive care and constant monitoring. It is usually administered in specially equipped units of a health care facility.Sex Distribution: The number of males and females in a given population. The distribution may refer to how many men or women or what proportion of either in the group. The population is usually patients with a specific disease but the concept is not restricted to humans and is not restricted to medicine.Home Care Services: Community health and NURSING SERVICES providing coordinated multiple services to the patient at the patient's homes. These home-care services are provided by a visiting nurse, home health agencies, HOSPITALS, or organized community groups using professional staff for care delivery. It differs from HOME NURSING which is provided by non-professionals.JapanFrance: A country in western Europe bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel, the Mediterranean Sea, and the countries of Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the principalities of Andorra and Monaco, and by the duchy of Luxembourg. Its capital is Paris.TaiwanPathology Department, Hospital: Hospital department which administers and provides pathology services.Drug Utilization: The utilization of drugs as reported in individual hospital studies, FDA studies, marketing, or consumption, etc. This includes drug stockpiling, and patient drug profiles.Tertiary Healthcare: Care of a highly technical and specialized nature, provided in a medical center, usually one affiliated with a university, for patients with unusually severe, complex, or uncommon health problems.Physicians: Individuals licensed to practice medicine.Chief Executive Officers, Hospital: Individuals who have the formal authority to manage a hospital, including its programs and services, in accordance with the goals and objectives established by a governing body (GOVERNING BOARD).Delivery, Obstetric: Delivery of the FETUS and PLACENTA under the care of an obstetrician or a health worker. Obstetric deliveries may involve physical, psychological, medical, or surgical interventions.Hospital Communication Systems: The transmission of messages to staff and patients within a hospital.Community-Acquired Infections: Any infection acquired in the community, that is, contrasted with those acquired in a health care facility (CROSS INFECTION). An infection would be classified as community-acquired if the patient had not recently been in a health care facility or been in contact with someone who had been recently in a health care facility.Nursing Administration Research: Research concerned with establishing costs of nursing care, examining the relationships between nursing services and quality patient care, and viewing problems of nursing service delivery within the broader context of policy analysis and delivery of health services (from a national study, presented at the 1985 Council on Graduate Education for Administration in Nursing (CGEAN) meeting).Heart Arrest: Cessation of heart beat or MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION. If it is treated within a few minutes, heart arrest can be reversed in most cases to normal cardiac rhythm and effective circulation.
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- The Phyllis and Lee Coffey Geriatrics Practice is dedicated to providing outstanding, affordable primary care and specialty services for older adults on an outpatient basis. (mountsinai.org)
- The postgraduate year two (PGY2) Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency at UPMC St. Margaret is the second year of a two-year residency program in which the UPMC St. Margaret PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency continues to a PGY2 specialty residency in Ambulatory Care with special emphasis in family medicine. (pitt.edu)
- Professional ambulatory care nursing is a complex, multifaceted specialty that encompasses independent and collaborative practice. (aaacn.org)
- Modern professional ambulatory care nursing is a unique domain of specialty nursing practice that focuses on health care for individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations. (aaacn.org)
- They practice in primary and specialty care outpatient venues, non-acute surgical and diagnostic outpatient settings in the community, and during telehealth encounters that occur across distances in the virtual environment. (aaacn.org)
- Defining characteristics: Differentiate ambulatory care nursing as a specialty distinct from other specialties and describe major attributes (AAACN, 2017). (aaacn.org)
- The clinic will move to the 3rd floor of the Ambulatory Care Center building in the Kidney and Hypertension Clinic, which will be renamed the UNC Hospitals Kidney Specialty and Transplant Clinic. (unchealthcare.org)
- The UNC Hospitals Kidney Specialty and Transplant Clinic's phone number is 984-974-5706. (unchealthcare.org)
Patient58
- Our team of highly skilled and caring doctors, nurses, and ancillary staff is committed to providing safe, patient centered care using the most advanced diagnostic and treatment modalities. (nyc.gov)
- It enhances the delivery of efficient and patient-centered care, improves patient flow, reduces waiting time and maximizes patient comfort. (nyc.gov)
- The NHAMCS provides data from samples of patient records selected from emergency departments (EDs) and outpatient departments (OPDs) of a national sample of hospitals. (umich.edu)
- Excluded were federal hospitals, hospital units within institutions, and hospitals with less than six beds staffed for patient use. (umich.edu)
- DSN: CC37.NHAMCS95.EMRGENCY (Emergency Department File) CC37.NHAMCS95.OPATIENT (Out-Patient Department File) DESCRIPTION OF THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL AMBULATORY MEDICAL CARE SURVEY A. INTRODUCTION The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) was initiated to learn more about the ambulatory care rendered in hospital emergency and outpatient departments in the United States. (cdc.gov)
- Since 1973, data on ambulatory patient visits to physicians' offices have been collected through the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). (cdc.gov)
- Where to go to find out about visiting hospital as a patient or a visitor, or find your local services, transportation and all NHSGGC services. (nhsggc.org.uk)
- Difference in patient care areas. (hfmmagazine.com)
- In general, acute care ES workers are less rushed to complete daily cleaning because they are not waiting for the area to be occupied immediately by another patient. (hfmmagazine.com)
- Patient care areas in the ambulatory setting are not always private rooms. (hfmmagazine.com)
- This algorithm has provided safe, effective patient care while decreasing overall length of stay. (hospitalnews.com)
- Better management of ambulatory care sensitive conditions, being able to treat more people without hospital admission, and continuing to enhance primary care all have great potential to decrease costs and the demand on in-patient services. (hospitalnews.com)
- The session, 'Enhanced Patient Experience-Design Driver for Urban Hospital-Based Ambulatory Care', explored some of the processes. (healthcaredesignmagazine.com)
- A separate yet connected building identity, convenient vehicle drop-off, parking, seamless entry with a sense of arrival, security and privacy, intutitive patient flow, branding entry points of complementary specialties (wayfinding), balancing vision and identity, and inclusion of a care team module suite are all part of the vision of delivering a setting that focuses on patients and families. (healthcaredesignmagazine.com)
- Statistics are presented on selected hospital, patient, and visit characteristics. (semanticscholar.org)
- In this study, we compared the service quality and patient experience in an ambulatory care setting of a physician-owned specialized facility with that of a general hospital. (ugent.be)
- Results: Service quality and patient experiences are high in both the investigated health care facilities. (ugent.be)
- De Regge M, De Groote H, Trybou J, Gemmel P, Brugada P. Service quality and patient experiences of ambulatory care in a specialized clinic vs. a general hospital. (ugent.be)
- Moreover, the continuing contraction of the hospital system and technological advances will facilitate decentralization of the Alpha-2 Antiplasmin testing closer to the patient, creating additional opportunities and challenges for suppliers. (marketresearch.com)
- We take great pride in our storied history and legacy of patient care. (mhalliance.on.ca)
- Ambulatory care is defined as medical or surgical care that is rendered for consultative, diagnostic, or therapeutic purposes in facilities where the patient does not remain overnight. (oncologynurseadvisor.com)
- Most outpatient settings still lack the infrastructure and resources needed to support critical infection control and prevention activities, as evidenced by ongoing outbreaks and patient notification events in physician's offices and other ambulatory care facilities. (oncologynurseadvisor.com)
- Treatment time was defined as the difference between the time the patient had initial contact with a physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner and the time the patient was discharged from the ED to another hospital unit or to the patient's residence. (cdc.gov)
- The purpose of this study was to estimate the frequency of hypertension screening during ambulatory pediatric visits in the United States and to determine patient- and provider-level factors associated with screening during visits specifically for preventive care. (aappublications.org)
- These findings can inform the development and implementation of antibiotic stewardship efforts in ambulatory care toward the most important geographic regions, diagnostic conditions, and patient populations. (aappublications.org)
- A focus will be on developing and refining skills to manage complex chronic medical conditions, patient-centered care, motivational interviewing, and primary literature evaluation. (bmc.org)
- PGY2 residencies provide residents with opportunities to function independently as practitioners by conceptualizing and integrating accumulated experience and knowledge and incorporating both into the provision of patient care that improves medication therapy. (bmc.org)
- Appropriate care for an ACSC can include one or more planned revisits to settings of ambulatory care for follow-up, such as when a patient is continuously monitored or otherwise advised to return when (or if) symptoms appear or reappear. (wikipedia.org)
- Karpiel MS. "Using patient classification systems to identify ambulatory care costs. (wikipedia.org)
- Join NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) where nurses are patient advocates in the truest form. (nurse.com)
- The Assistant Patient Care Manager is responsible for assisting the Patient Care Manager with clinical management and administrative coordination of a. (simplyhired.com)
- Patient Care Manager. (simplyhired.com)
- The growing economic pressures on hospitals, coupled with advances in diagnostic technologies, intensifying competition among suppliers and physicians, and changing consumer demands are shifting diagnostic testing from hospitals and commercial laboratories closer to the patient. (reportbuyer.com)
- The project shall provide an early contact between patient/relatives and the ambulatory hospice services for a continuous holistic support of palliative tumour patients within the hospital as well as to provide a future ambulatory support. (egms.de)
- We offer comprehensive, coordinated patient- and family-centered care through programs housed within the Martha Stewart Center for Living (MSCL). (mountsinai.org)
- Objectives To identify the frequency with which antibiotics are prescribed in the absence of a documented indication in the ambulatory care setting, to quantify the potential effect on assessments of appropriateness of antibiotics, and to understand patient, provider, and visit level characteristics associated with antibiotic prescribing without a documented indication. (bmj.com)
- Expanding patient involvement in care. (springer.com)
- Assessing the effects of physician-patient interactions on the outcomes of chronic disease [published erratum appears in Med Care 1989 July 27: (springer.com)
- The UW Health PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency rotation schedule includes a combination of required and elective rotations to ensure that the resident is exposed to a variety of experiences, patient populations and interdisciplinary teams. (uwhealth.org)
- In addition to providing patient care at the three residency-affiliated FHCs, PGY2 residents provide longitudinal patient care in a variety of different settings including Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) and private practice physician (PPI)offices. (pitt.edu)
- Training in managing the inpatient and outpatient care of our FHC patients allows the resident experience in managing the transitions of patient care. (pitt.edu)
- In the well-established collaborative care environment at UPMC St. Margaret, physicians, pharmacists, nurses, social workers, and behavior therapists work together to educate eager learners and provide excellent patient care. (pitt.edu)
- The resident will become proficient as direct patient care providers within interdisciplinary teams and with advanced teaching and practice-based research to prepare them for academic and scholarly work opportunities. (pitt.edu)
- Hot topics this year included the latest on care coordination and patient-centered medical homes. (aaacn.org)
- Joint Commission International accreditation and certification is recognized as a global leader for health care quality of care and patient safety. (jointcommissioninternational.org)
- Historically, it was the patient who initiated contact with the ambulatory health care setting. (aaacn.org)
- Today, contact is initiated either by the patient or ambulatory care nurse to ensure optimal wellness or for educational purposes. (aaacn.org)
- More recently, a unique nursing role has been defined as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. (aaacn.org)
- Ambulatory nursing care requires critical reasoning and astute clinical judgment to expedite appropriate care and treatment, especially given the patient may present with complex problems or potentially life-threatening conditions. (aaacn.org)
- During each encounter, the ambulatory care RN focuses on patient safety and quality of nursing care by applying appropriate nursing interventions, such as identifying and clarifying patient needs, performing procedures, conducting health education, promoting patient advocacy, coordinating nursing and other health services, assisting patient to navigate health care system, and evaluating patient outcomes. (aaacn.org)
- Overall, a general practitioner with a patient population of 2000 will care for about 40-50 patients with heart failure and see two or three new cases each year. (bmj.com)
- Joint Commission standards help you develop strategies to address the most complex issues and identified key vulnerabilities in the patient care experience. (jointcommission.org)
- The standards review various aspects of your patient care process such as infection prevention, medication management and environment of care, ensuring a comprehensive review of your patient care process. (jointcommission.org)
- Study objectives were to assess temporal trends and identify patient- and practice-level predictors of the prescription of antiplatelet medications in a national sample of ischemic stroke (IS) patients seeking ambulatory care. (hindawi.com)
- EHR adoption is improving the quality of patient care, as well as the productivity and sustainability of the healthcare system. (himss.org)
- It underscores how seamless, secure, interoperable health information exchange contributes to the improved health of individuals and populations around the world-resulting in a comprehensive and integrated approach to care, improved patient outcomes and timely reimbursement. (himss.org)
- Improving the way healthcare systems share information for optimal patient care. (himss.org)
- If the patient is unable to pick up medication from an authorized pharmacy, contact the St. Paul's Hospital Ambulatory Pharmacy Outreach Pharmacist (604)-806-8456 to arrange for delivery to an alternate site. (ubc.ca)
Branson Ambulatory Care Centre1
- NYGH volunteers staff an information desk at the Branson Ambulatory Care Centre. (nygh.on.ca)
20171
- 1 in New York, America's Best Hospitals 2017-2018 - U.S.News & World Report , 2017 "Best Large Workplaces in New York. (nurse.com)
ASCs3
- This growth is likely precipitated by the move toward outpatient care, especially into more focused, efficient, and cost effective settings, such as ASCs. (foley.com)
- Hospitals, on the other hand, are often able to command considerably higher rates than ASCs for the same services. (foley.com)
- Additionally, ASCs offer much faster treatment to patients compared to hospitals, minimizing the waiting time for patients. (openpr.com)
Clinic8
- This 15,000 square foot state of the art modern facility houses the adult medicine clinic where patients receive comprehensive primary and preventive care for a broad range of health conditions. (nyc.gov)
- Are you responsible for human resources in your hospital, clinic or other medical institute and looking for a conscientious and well-qualified stand-in? (ecovis.com)
- When we attend clinic appointments as part of our health care journey, or attend a loved one's appointment as part of theirs, we are all participants in ambulatory care. (hospitalnews.com)
- This program will offer the resident the opportunity for a longitudinal primary care experience within our Family Medicine Clinic. (bmc.org)
- Serve as the Interim Assistant Clinic Manager, reporting to the Director of Ambulatory Care and serving nearly 100 patients daily. (simplyhired.com)
- Our objective was to identify the frequency with which antibiotics are prescribed in the absence of a documented indication by using a nationally representative sample of ambulatory clinic encounters to estimate the degree to which previous estimates of appropriate prescribing may have been biased. (bmj.com)
- Starting July 1, 2016, the Transplant Nephrology Clinic on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings for post-kidney transplant patients will be moving from its current location in the Jason Ray Transplant Clinic on the 4th floor of Memorial Hospital. (unchealthcare.org)
- These approaches may be particularly relevant in an era of Coronavirus Disease 2019 and associated need for social distancing, further limiting contact with traditional ambulatory clinic settings. (nih.gov)
Clinical7
- Sign up for Insight Alerts highlighting editor-chosen studies with the greatest impact on clinical care. (aappublications.org)
- The PGY2 Ambulatory Care residency program is ASHP-accredited and provides advanced clinical training to prepare the resident to become a skilled practitioner that is able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary healthcare team. (bmc.org)
- Chiropractic clinical services were established in 2008 with two doctors of chiropractic currently providing conservative care for musculoskeletal-conditions at the 757-bed BWH facility located in Chestnut Hill, a suburb of Boston, Mass. (palmer.edu)
- The Medical Interview-Clinical Care, Education, and Research. (springer.com)
- 1 Speaker Introduction Jessica Wilhoite, PharmD, BCACP Doctor of Pharmacy: Purdue University Postgraduate Residency Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Practice St. Vincent Hospital PGY2 Ambulatory Care St. Vincent Primary Care Center Current Practice: Indianapolis, IN Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Ambulatory Care, St. Vincent Health Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Butler University, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences This presenter has no financial interests to disclose. (docplayer.net)
- Study selection Eligible studies evaluated point-of-care natriuretic peptide testing (B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) or N terminal fragment pro B-type natriuretic peptide (NTproBNP)) against any relevant reference standard, including echocardiography, clinical examination, or combinations of these, in humans. (bmj.com)
- Despite steady progress over the past 3 decades in advancing drug and device therapies to reduce morbidity and mortality in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, large registries of usual care demonstrate incomplete use of these evidence-based therapies in clinical practice. (nih.gov)
Services41
- Services are offered in three major primary care areas: Medicine, Pediatrics, and Women's Health. (nyc.gov)
- The resulting national estimates describe the use of hospital ambulatory medical care services in the United States. (umich.edu)
- Ambulatory medical care is the predominant method of providing health care services in the United States (reference 1). (cdc.gov)
- The national estimates produced from these studies describe the utilization of hospital ambulatory medical care services in the United States. (cdc.gov)
- What's your experience of using our hospitals and services? (nhsggc.org.uk)
- Help shape your hospital and community services. (nhsggc.org.uk)
- The West Glasgow Ambulatory Care Hospital at Yorkhill which opened on 7 December 2015 provides a range of local hospital outpatient services. (nhsggc.org.uk)
- Besides the general services we provide to the health care industry (viz. (ecovis.com)
- HFM Daily offers blog coverage by the award-winning HFM editorial team and links to in-depth information on health care design, construction, engineering, environmental services, operations and technology. (hfmmagazine.com)
- The Environmental Services & Infection Prevention software used in over 950 hospitals. (hfmmagazine.com)
- The Bright Futures guidelines developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) at the request of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recommends that children and adolescents aged 3-17 years receive blood pressure screening during their annual preventive care visit ( 10 , 11 ). (cdc.gov)
- It was great to see a lot of representation of health care professions across the care continuum," comments Adam Saporta, Project Manager, Outpatient Services, St. John's Rehab, Sunnybrook, about this year's conference. (hospitalnews.com)
- The growth of ambulatory care services is having a dramatic impact on how health care is delivered in Canada. (hospitalnews.com)
- It also means, however, that today's ambulatory care providers are delivering an increasingly broad range of services in a high-pressure environment. (hospitalnews.com)
- We accredit a diverse range of public and private health care and social service providers and while we began as a hospital-based program, we now have standards for a broad range of services, including ambulatory care services offered in and outside the hospital. (hospitalnews.com)
- The Ambulatory Care Services Standards outline the policies, processes, and procedures that need to be in place to deliver safe, high-quality ambulatory services in any discipline. (hospitalnews.com)
- The accreditation journey is an ongoing process of improving quality, safety, and efficiency to offer Canadians the best possible health care services. (hospitalnews.com)
- In conclusion, the List is an important tool to evaluate access and effectiveness of Primary Care Services, but also it is relevant to know and evaluate the health network organization due to assure continuity of care to reach the principle of integrality of health care. (scielo.br)
- NHAMCS is based on outpatient visits to physicians and hospital emergency rooms and is designed to collect data on the use of ambulatory care services. (healthdata.org)
- This is because hospital investors also provide surgical services in their own facilities and unless the venture is structured correctly, the ASC and its hospital investor could be considered competitors and unable to coordinate their activities (including reimbursement) without violating the antitrust laws. (foley.com)
- Concurrently, utilization of ambulatory care services has dramatically increased. (oncologynurseadvisor.com)
- Find detailed information on Ambulatory Health Care Services companies in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, United States of America, including financial statements, sales and marketing contacts, top competitors, and firmographic insights. (dnb.com)
- Dun & Bradstreet gathers Ambulatory Health Care Services business information from trusted sources to help you understand company performance, growth potential, and competitive pressures. (dnb.com)
- View 26 Ambulatory Health Care Services company profiles below. (dnb.com)
- Electronic health records have the potential to improve the delivery of health care services. (nih.gov)
- Many Medical Investigations and treatments for acute and chronic illnesses and preventive health care can be performed on an ambulatory basis, including minor surgical and medical procedures, most types of dental services, dermatology services, and many types of diagnostic procedures (e.g. blood tests, X-rays, endoscopy and biopsy procedures of superficial organs). (wikipedia.org)
- Other types of ambulatory care services include emergency visits, rehabilitation visits, and in some cases telephone consultations. (wikipedia.org)
- Ambulatory care services represent the most significant contributor to increasing hospital expenditures and to the performance of the health care system in most countries, including most developing countries. (wikipedia.org)
- Hospitals: Including emergency departments and other hospital-based services such as same day surgery services and mental health services. (wikipedia.org)
- citation needed] Relatively common ACSC include: Hospitalization for an ACSC is considered to be a measure of access to appropriate primary health care, including preventive and disease management services. (wikipedia.org)
- Programs & Services: Ambulatory Care. (wikipedia.org)
- Conclusions - The presence of mental illness and addiction among high-cost users of medical services may represent an unmet need for quality ambulatory and primary care. (ices.on.ca)
- The majority of figures and data reported in the tables in Part 4 are derived from tables published in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's Mental Health Services in Australia (MHSiA) 22 series of annual mental health reports that describe the activity and characteristics of Australia's mental health care services. (health.gov.au)
- Estimates of the percentage of service expenditure on community services include three categories of services: Ambulatory care, community residential and non-government services. (health.gov.au)
- The plans for the new hospital, which opened in January 2016, involved converting and unifying two six-story historic Edwardian and Victorian properties into a modern, clinically advanced healthcare environment that would bring Optegra's consultancy and surgery services together under one roof. (healthcaredesignmagazine.com)
- I am pleased to provide this performance audit of the Office of Medicaids (MassHealths) fee-for-service payments for services covered by managed-care organizations. (scribd.com)
- Each member is permitted to receive services only from providers in his or her MCOs network, except in a few cases such as emergency care and family planning. (scribd.com)
- These data tables illustrate trends and patterns in the use of hospital-based services and psychotropic medications among children and youth with mental disorders. (cihi.ca)
- Examines trends and patterns over six years in the use of hospital-based services and psychotropic medications among children and youth with mental disorders. (cihi.ca)
- They assessed the extent to which hospital payments, professional services, and facility payments vary by the ambulatory care setting where a procedure is performed. (elsevier.com)
- The most recent CDC guidelines have begun to address "extremes of age" as a focus of infection prevention and control in Long Term care settings, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has established regulations in this setting as well. (clinicaladvisor.com)
Prescriptions in ambulatory care2
- Investigators have shown that more than 30% of antibiotic prescriptions in ambulatory care settings are inappropriate. (bmj.com)
- We therefore examined the indications associated with opioid prescriptions in ambulatory care between 2006 and 2015 to determine the proportion of prescriptions written for conditions causing pain. (annals.org)
Pediatric2
- During 1997-2006, hospitalization rates for children and adolescents with a diagnosis of hypertension doubled, from approximately 18 cases per 100,000 pediatric hospital discharges in 1997 to approximately 35 cases per 100,000 in 2006 ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
- Hypertension screening occurred during 35% of ambulatory pediatric visits, 67% of preventive visits, and 84% of preventive visits in which overweight/obesity was diagnosed. (aappublications.org)
Hospitalization5
- In Brazil, one of the alternatives that can be used to evaluate primary healthcare and its consequences regarding the other levels of the system is the use of the indicator Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (HACSC). (scielo.br)
- Public policy should, nevertheless, focus on increasing sequential continuity of specialist and generalist ambulatory care as this was found to be significantly associated with a reduced likelihood of hospitalization. (tu-berlin.de)
- This study examines how mental illness or addiction affects risk for repeat hospitalization and/or emergency department use for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) among high-cost users of medical care. (ices.on.ca)
- Ambulatory PVP is feasible with functional results and complications comparable to that of traditional hospitalization. (sigmaaldrich.com)
- Inpatient hospitalization statistics are obtained from CIHI's national Hospital Morbidity Database (HMDB) and Discharge Abstract Database (DAD). (cihi.ca)
Pharmacy residency2
- The Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC) is a one year experiential program designed for the individual seeking to further develop skills necessary to assess, design, implement and monitor evidence-based individualized medication therapy in a variety of collaborative outpatient practice settings. (cshp.ca)
- The postgraduate year two (PGY2) Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency at UPMC St. Margaret is the second year of a two-year residency program in which the UPMC St. Margaret PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency conditionally continues to PGY2 year through ASHP Resident Matching Program early commitment process. (pitt.edu)
Practice7
- For instance, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology offers training courses specifically dedicated to infection prevention professionals who practice in the ambulatory setting. (hfmmagazine.com)
- This method supports programs of care that cross hospital and practice settings, reduces duplication, and allows greater integration with hospital-based resources. (healthcaredesignmagazine.com)
- An Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Practitioner with certification as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - ACNP will. (simplyhired.com)
- If you already have a primary care physician but would like the opinions of a geriatrics comprehensive practice, members of our practice are available to consult with your provider. (mountsinai.org)
- Nurses explored the work and workflows in ambulatory practice, learned how to write for publication, prepared for certification with the Ambulatory Care Nursing Certification Review Course, and polished their telehealth skills with the Telehealth Nursing Practice Core Course (TNPCC). (aaacn.org)
- Home » Practice Resources » What Is Ambulatory Care Nursing? (aaacn.org)
- Ambulatory care nurses practice in settings distinctive from other nurses. (aaacn.org)
Urgent Care4
- Should I go to Urgent Care or the Emergency Room to treat my medical problem? (nwh.org)
- With more than 20 locations across Broward County, there's always a Broward Health doctor's office, urgent care center, or top-ranked hospital within range. (browardhealth.org)
- New Urgent Care Center Opens In Vacaville, Calif. (healthcaredesignmagazine.com)
- Appointments for urgent care available. (mountsinai.org)
Define ambulatory1
- The standards define ambulatory care as non-emergency, condition-specific single visit or episodic care generally provided on an outpatient basis in support of primary care. (hospitalnews.com)
Offices4
- Ambulatory care visits to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments, and emergency departments, United States. (worldcat.org)
- I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43987671 Title: Ambulatory care visits to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments, and emergency departments, United States. (worldcat.org)
- Sites where ambulatory care can be delivered include: Doctor's surgeries (known as doctor's offices in American English): This is the most common site for the delivery of ambulatory care in many countries, and usually consists of a physician's visit. (wikipedia.org)
- The post-kidney transplant coordinators will maintain their residence in the Transplant Administrative offices on the 4 th floor of Memorial Hospital. (unchealthcare.org)
Residency Program1
- Kimberly Gecsi, MD , Residency Program Director, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology , University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Associate Professor, Reproductive Biology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine , has been performing innovative procedures in the office for 10 years. (uhhospitals.org)
Centre5
- A site specific cover letter describing why you wish to do a Residency in Ambulatory Care (Year 1) at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (250 words max). (cshp.ca)
- On 4 December, Whittington Health's new Ambulatory Care Centre opened. (designcouncil.org.uk)
- After working with the Design Council to improve the outpatients' pharmacy department, the hospital recommissioned Studio TILT to adopt the same codesign approach for its Ambulatory Care Centre. (designcouncil.org.uk)
- On opening the new ACU, Minister of State for Care and Support Norman Lamb commented on the design approach to the new centre: "I confirm I have seen the future of Healthcare in the UK. (designcouncil.org.uk)
- Natalie Richard, Lead Consultant Ambulatory Care, explained the importance of the space: "It means that just because you are in the centre, you don't have to be sitting in a bed space, and for children that is really important. (designcouncil.org.uk)
Million ambulatory2
- Participants 28 332 sample visits representing 990.9 million ambulatory care visits nationwide. (bmj.com)
- Results Antibiotics were prescribed during 13.2% (95% confidence interval 11.6% to 13.7%) of the estimated 990.8 million ambulatory care visits in 2015. (bmj.com)
NAMCS4
- However, visits to hospital emergency and outpatient departments, which represent a significant portion of total ambulatory medical care, are not included in the NAMCS (reference 2). (cdc.gov)
- Therefore, the omission of hospital ambulatory care from the ambulatory medical care database leaves a significant gap in coverage and limits the utility of the current NAMCS data. (cdc.gov)
- This report analyzes 2007-2010 data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to estimate the prevalence of blood pressure measurement at visits among children and adolescents aged 3-17 years. (cdc.gov)
- The results are based on a secondary data analysis using the 1992-2000 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS). (cdc.gov)
Health care organizations6
- Accreditation Canada is an independent, not-for-profit organization that has been setting standards and accrediting health care organizations since 1958. (hospitalnews.com)
- Objectives: Health care organizations are constantly looking for ways to establish a differential advantage to attract customers. (ugent.be)
- To this end, service quality has become an important differentiator in the strategy of health care organizations. (ugent.be)
- This easy-to-navigate resource outlines the 12 steps health care organizations typically follow in their pursuit of accreditation. (jointcommissioninternational.org)
- Joint Commission accreditation can be earned by many types of health care organizations. (jointcommission.org)
- Review the FAQs to see topics often raised by health care organizations or submit your own question via the electronic submission form. (jointcommission.org)
Visits to hospital emergency departments2
- OBJECTIVES This report describes ambulatory care visits to hospital emergency departments (EDs) in the United States in 2004. (semanticscholar.org)
- Most visits to hospital emergency departments, however, do not require hospital admission. (wikipedia.org)
Brigham and Wome2
- The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) was established in 2002 through a philanthropic grant from the Bernard Osher Foundation. (palmer.edu)
- The RAND Corporation and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (T.B.S. (annals.org)
Methods1
- Methods: Using insurance claims data from Germany's biggest statutory health insurance company, we defined three measures of continuity of care: Continuity of Care Index (COCI), Usual Provider Index (UPC) and the Sequential Continuity Index (SECON). (tu-berlin.de)
Acute care10
- Acute care hospitals and ambulatory settings both have surfaces and devices that can contribute to the transmission of pathogens. (hfmmagazine.com)
- Although many acute care components of an environmental cleaning program can and should be utilized in the ambulatory setting, there are a number of items that require a different approach. (hfmmagazine.com)
- The acute care setting has had formal infection prevention programs in place for years. (hfmmagazine.com)
- There are established guidelines and regulatory resources dedicated to best infection prevention practices in the acute care setting. (hfmmagazine.com)
- Your are required to undertake the AMB & AEC Score sheet prior to speaking to the Acute Care Physician so the relevant information is to hand. (kingstonhospital.nhs.uk)
- Objective - The role of mental illness and addiction in acute care use for chronic medical conditions that are sensitive to ambulatory care management requires focussed attention. (ices.on.ca)
- ACUTE CARE Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) / Physician's Assistant (PA) - Viragh Ambulatory Oncology Infusion Center at the SKCCC. (simplyhired.com)
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - ACNP - With one (1) year of employment at California Pacific Medical Center - Required. (simplyhired.com)
- The ideal imcumbent for this role will be an experience Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ANCP) with ACNP with ICU Nurse Practioner experience. (simplyhired.com)
- OCertified by American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, based on. (simplyhired.com)
Preventable Hospitalizations2
- In May, the CAAC held its third annual conference, Ambulatory-based Care: A Framework for Preventable Hospitalizations , which featured presentations from Canadian and international speakers. (hospitalnews.com)
- This indicator comes from a concept developed by John Billings 2 in the 1980s, which is the concept of potentially preventable hospitalizations or ambulatory care sensitive conditions, as an indirect reflection of problems with the access and effectiveness of primary healthcare. (scielo.br)
NHAMCS2
- A complete description of the NHAMCS is contained in the publication entitled, 'Plan and Operation of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey' (reference 4). (cdc.gov)
- B. SAMPLE DESIGN The 1995 NHAMCS included a national probability sample of visits to the emergency and outpatient departments of noninstitutional general and short-stay hospitals, exclusive of Federal, military, and Veterans Administration hospitals, located in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. (cdc.gov)
Continuity1
- Our aim is to examine whether continuity in ambulatory care is associated with hospitalizations due to heart failure. (tu-berlin.de)
20002
- We analyzed data from a nationally representative sample of ambulatory visits by using the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey from 2000 through 2009. (aappublications.org)
- IS-related outpatient visits by adults were identified using the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey for the years 2000-2007. (hindawi.com)
Physician office1
- When your visit takes place in a hospital outpatient location, you will typically receive two charges which may result in you paying more for your visit than if you are seen in a physician office. (nwh.org)
Medical17
- If you are referring between the hours of 1am and 7.30am from the Out of Hours service you will need to speak to the medical registrar on call, bleep number 174 via hospital switchboard. (kingstonhospital.nhs.uk)
- National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2004 emergency department summary. (semanticscholar.org)
- The collection and processing of drug information: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. (semanticscholar.org)
- National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2005 emergency department summary. (semanticscholar.org)
- This material must not be used for commercial purposes, or in any hospital or medical facility. (drugs.com)
- Number of medical equipment units used in public or private hospitals and in ambulatory care. (reportlinker.com)
- We used the National Ambulatory and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care surveys from 2006 to 2008, which are nationally representative samples of ambulatory care visits in the United States. (aappublications.org)
- This care can include advanced medical technology and procedures even when provided outside of hospitals. (wikipedia.org)
- Among the top 10% of medical care users ranked by cost, we determined rates of any and repeat care use (hospitalizations and emergency department [ED] visits) between April 1, 2011, and March 31, 2012, for 14 consensus established ACSCs and compared them between those with and without diagnosed mental illness or addiction during the 2 years prior. (ices.on.ca)
- A medical history and physical examination were followed by a series of noninvasive tests of cardiovascular and pupillary autonomic function and then by 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). (diabetesjournals.org)
- Optegra Eye Health Care (London) operates a network of world-class private ophthalmic hospitals and its newest facility is a flagship center for medical excellence based in the Harley Street district of central London. (healthcaredesignmagazine.com)
- Setting 2015 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. (bmj.com)
- It includes common symptoms, complaints, problems or reasons for seeking medical care. (cihi.ca)
- To determine the percentage of opioid prescriptions with a documented medical indication between 2006 and 2015, and to identify conditions commonly associated with opioid prescribing in ambulatory care. (annals.org)
- Up to $1 billion dollars will be awarded to innovative projects across the country that test creative ways to deliver high quality medical care and save money. (cms.gov)
- This community embraces health technology professionals who are dedicated to the identification of challenges and solutions common to the use and support of medical and information technologies in all care delivery settings. (himss.org)
- Potential strategies to improve guideline-directed medical therapy include leveraging non-physician clinicians, solidifying transitions of care, incorporating telehealth solutions, and engaging in comprehensive comorbid disease management via multidisciplinary team structures. (nih.gov)
Nurses4
- American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nurses. (wikipedia.org)
- Today, our PACU nurses' mastery continues to set standards for post-operative care. (nurse.com)
- Each of our nurses dares to be truly excellent - thriving in a compassionate culture of care and caring. (nurse.com)
- Pitman, NJ - An outstanding education program drew over 700 nurses to the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN) 38th Annual Conference, April 23-26, 2013, in Las Vegas, NV. (aaacn.org)
Prescribing4
- To provide a nationally representative analysis of antibiotic prescribing in ambulatory pediatrics according to antibiotic classes and diagnostic categories and identify factors associated with broad-spectrum antibiotic prescribing. (aappublications.org)
- Broad-spectrum antibiotic prescribing in ambulatory pediatrics is extremely common and frequently inappropriate. (aappublications.org)
- Being an adult male, spending more time with the provider, and seeing a non-primary care specialist were significantly positively associated with antibiotic prescribing without an indication. (bmj.com)
- Improving acceptance of computerized prescribing alerts in ambulatory care. (nih.gov)
American Academy1
- Pitman, NJ: American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing. (aaacn.org)
Primary7
- Better primary prevention also reduces potential costs on an already burdened health care system. (hospitalnews.com)
- Primary health care. (scielo.br)
- 1 With regard to these flows, in many situations in which primary healthcare is not resolutive, the demand for hospitalizations probably includes a proportion of cases with diagnoses sensitive to this level of care, in which they could be resolved. (scielo.br)
- Primary care Reason for encounter Health care provider Ambulatory care nursing http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-ambulatory-care.htm http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/mobileart.asp?articlekey=2218 William Osler Health System. (wikipedia.org)
- MCO enrollees select a primary care provider to provide basic care and make any necessary referrals. (scribd.com)
- Five studies were done in primary care. (bmj.com)
- Primary care studies that used NTproBNP testing reported a sensitivity of 0.99 (0.57 to 1.00) and specificity of 0.60 (0.44 to 0.74) at 135 pg/mL. (bmj.com)
Nurse5
- If you would like an interpreter to help you communicate with a member of the health care team, please speak with your nurse or the staff member booking your appointment. (nygh.on.ca)
- If you find an item, please give it to your nurse or give it to volunteers at the Information Desk located in the Branson Ambulatory Care Centre's main entrance lobby. (nygh.on.ca)
- We are currently seeking a Nurse Practitioner for our Critical Care. (simplyhired.com)
- This new role, Care Coordination and Transition Management (Haas, Swan, & Haynes, 2014), has formalized the role of the nurse who collaborates and partners with the health consumer and other health professionals to ensure the health consumer accesses and receives appropriate care across health care continuum providers, agencies, and businesses. (aaacn.org)
- Identify the follow-up prescriber: The Physician or Nurse Practitioner who will provide ongoing care and monitoring and authorize prescription refills. (ubc.ca)
Nationally representative1
- Conclusions This nationally representative study of ambulatory visits identified a large number of prescriptions for antibiotics without a documented indication. (bmj.com)
Survey1
- The CDC also is requesting approval to add 167 hospitals to the survey sample to make state-based estimates in five states on emergency department characteristics and make slight changes to survey questions. (modernhealthcare.com)
Center3
- According to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, outpatient procedures now account for more than three-quarters of all operations performed in the United States. (oncologynurseadvisor.com)
- This work was funded in part by the Prudential Center for Health Care Research, Atlanta, Ga. The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of the funder. (springer.com)
- During the conduct of this study, Dr. Cleary was a consultant to the Prudential Center for Health Care Research. (springer.com)
Organization1
- In 2012, Henry founded the Canadian Association of Ambulatory Care (CAAC), the first organization in Canada with an interdisciplinary health care professional membership that aims to enhance practices and education in ambulatory care. (hospitalnews.com)
Avoidable2
- However, hospital admissions due to heart failure are considered to be potentially avoidable through effective and continuous ambulatory care. (tu-berlin.de)
- While not all admissions for these conditions are avoidable, appropriate ambulatory care could help prevent their onset, control an acute episode, or manage a chronic disease or condition. (wikipedia.org)
Medicare2
- Therefore, with regard to health care financing, as Medicare goes, so goes the nation. (elsevier.com)
- "Medicare Payments for Outpatient Urological Surgery by Location of Care," by John M. Hollingsworth, Chris S. Saigal, Julie C. Lai, Rodney L. Dunn, Seth A. Strope, Brent K Hollenbeck, and the Urologic Diseases in America project (DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2012.08.031). (elsevier.com)
Telehealth1
- Telehealth nursing is an integral component of professional ambulatory care nursing that utilizes a variety of telecommunications technologies during encounters to assess, triage, provide nursing consultation, perform follow up and care coordination. (aaacn.org)
Accreditation3
- Accreditation Canada offers two sets of standards for ambulatory care. (hospitalnews.com)
- JCI is the recognized global leader in health care accreditation. (jointcommissioninternational.org)
- JCI accreditation is not just for hospitals. (jointcommissioninternational.org)
Pediatrics1
Antibiotic1
- There has also been some research around oral care, isolation regulations and antibiotic choices for prevention of infections. (clinicaladvisor.com)
