• By identifying short and long-term trends, data analysts enable urban planners to make informed decisions when planning building projects, schools, and healthcare centers. (alteryx.com)
  • EMS represents the first stage in a full continuum of emergency care that also includes hospital emergency departments (EDs), trauma systems/centers, inpatient critical care services, and interfacility transport. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The Warfarin-Aspirin Symptomatic Intracranial Disease study, which was performed at 59 medical centers in North America and included 569 patients with symptomatic ICAS, showed that women had a significantly higher risk for IS and for the combined endpoint of stroke and vascular death [ 6 ]. (karger.com)
  • Various public healthcare facilities, including county or city hospitals, community health centers, and township health centers, were founded to serve diverse needs. (wikipedia.org)
  • SETTING: Two urban VA medical centers. (duke.edu)
  • Primary-level facilities (including community health facilities in urban areas, township health centers, and village clinics in the rural areas) provide preventive and basic medical services, whereas secondary and tertiary hospitals provide specialized care. (jabfm.org)
  • In 2019, when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) drafted their national coverage determination for TAVI reimbursement, the agency had to walk a fine line between maintaining quality and ensuring equitable access to patients in smaller, rural communities. (tctmd.com)
  • Larger academic medical centers in urban areas might work cooperatively, rather than competitively, to mentor and proctor physicians at smaller, rural hospitals to ensure high-quality care, he suggested. (tctmd.com)
  • This study identified English-language peer-reviewed research articles describing CCM-based interventions for managing type 1 and type 2 diabetes in US primary care settings (ie, hospital-network outpatient clinics, private practices, and community health centers). (cdc.gov)
  • Nonetheless, multivariable analysis controlling for confounders such as socioeconomic status revealed that utilization of antenatal care services at health centers and TT vaccination during pregnancy are significantly associated with the intervention. (plos.org)
  • Untreated patients were assumed to age into Medicare at 65 years, where they were treated with LDV/SOF without restriction by fibrotic stage. (cdc.gov)
  • Even when solely looking at white and Black patients who sought care with the same type of coverage - Medicare - the findings of a racial gap held up. (ecsii.com)
  • Gangopadhyaya said current efforts aimed at penalizing low-quality hospitals and/or cutting off Medicare reimbursements in the face of poor safety records are "ineffective" at rectifying racial safety gaps. (ecsii.com)
  • Additionally, hospitals without a TAVI program cared for more patients "dual eligible" for Medicare and Medicaid, which is a marker of socioeconomic vulnerability, and more patients from economically disadvantaged zip codes as measured by the distressed community index. (tctmd.com)
  • Overall, there were lower rates of TAVI in areas with more Medicare and Medicaid dual-eligible patients, lower average median household incomes, and more economic distress. (tctmd.com)
  • 1. Hospitals that fall under CMS' Inpatient Prospective Payment System agree to pre-determined rates in order to serve Medicare patients. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Hospitals generally receive IPPS payment on a per-discharge or per-case basis for Medicare beneficiary inpatient stays. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • 5. Despite protests from hospitals about the two-midnight rule - under which inpatient admissions must span at least two midnights to qualify for Medicare Part A payments - the FY 2015 IPPS final rule leaves the controversial policy intact. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • In fiscal year 2014, CMS took back 1.25 percent of Medicare payments to hospitals through the IPPS and redistributed the resulting $1.1 billion based on hospitals' performance on quality measures such as patient satisfaction and effective treatment of heart failure. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • In fiscal year 2014, 778 hospitals lost more than 0.2 percent of their Medicare pay, while 630 hospitals received a bonus of more than 0.2 percent. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Wennberg JEFreeman JLShelton RMBubolz TA Hospital use and mortality among Medicare beneficiaries in Boston and New Haven. (jamanetwork.com)
  • A: Recent legislation pays hospitals higher Medicare rates for COVID-19 patients and treatment, but there is no evidence of fraudulent reporting. (pearltrees.com)
  • They study patient records, track trends in disease prevalence and treatments, identify patterns in patient behaviors, and evaluate the effectiveness of treatments and medications. (alteryx.com)
  • The goal of the present study was to quantify the prevalence of different cardiovascular risk behaviours among patients with known cardiovascular conditions in a developing country. (nih.gov)
  • Malnutrition is common among hospitalized patients in the United States, and its coded prevalence is increasing. (researchgate.net)
  • In recent years, patients' and providers' use of technology has been gaining more prevalence as patients communicate more regularly with their physicians using technology [ 3 ] and an emphasis has been placed on telemedicine. (jmir.org)
  • The RCMS has significantly improved life expectancy and simultaneously decreased the prevalence of certain diseases. (wikipedia.org)
  • Using Framingham risk scores, 61% of the subjects had elevated 10-year risk of developing cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), with no significant difference in gender prevalence. (hindawi.com)
  • A high caregiving burden was commonly observed in paid caregivers of hospitalized patients in China, as was a high prevalence of depression symptoms. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A mixed-methods study using retrospective medical record review and semi-structured interviews was conducted at a tertiary hospital in Moshi, Tanzania. (one.surgery)
  • The relative proportion of patients presenting to either setting is currently unknown, as is the patient pathway between primary, secondary and tertiary care. (biomedcentral.com)
  • METHODS: Treatment-naïve patients with genotype 1 chronic HCV were followed over a lifetime horizon from the third-party payer perspective. (cdc.gov)
  • Methods A prospective multicentre cohort study was performed across four urban public hospitals in India April 2016 through February 2018. (one.surgery)
  • The relaxation of restrictions that prohibited telephonic and virtual counseling/peer support meant that counselors and peers were able to innovate new methods for providing patient support. (springer.com)
  • Methods This was a retrospective study from Helsinki University Hospital, Finland. (degruyter.com)
  • Methods This retrospective cohort study was conducted at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, Finland, and comprised 214 antepartum singleton stillbirths from 2003 to 2015. (degruyter.com)
  • Methods: The pooled 2003 and 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys were used to assess differences in mental health service use by rural and urban residence and average per person mental health expenditures by payer and by service type. (rrh.org.au)
  • Research has shown that text-based communication via telemedicine will continue to be a mode of communication that patients and physicians use in the future. (jmir.org)
  • This study aimed to understand and compare the potential differences in patients' perceptions of communication effectiveness with their physicians through different modes of communication. (jmir.org)
  • We found no significant differences between patients' perceptions of effective communication using either IT-mediated communication or FtF communication with their physicians. (jmir.org)
  • The results of this study imply that patients can achieve the same level of communication effectiveness with their physicians using IT-mediated communication as they would in comparable FtF interactions, but patients view FtF communication to be a more favorable medium than IT-mediated communication. (jmir.org)
  • According to a report by the American College of Surgeons [ 4 ], physicians no longer make house calls, and for a growing number of patients, text messaging and telemedicine have become alternatives to phone calls and traditional office visits. (jmir.org)
  • African Americans are much less likely to receive surgical treatment at hospitals and from physicians who perform high volumes of specialized procedures, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health has found. (yale.edu)
  • Evidence suggests that the more procedures physicians and hospitals perform for a given condition, the better they will be at doing it," said Andrew J. Epstein, Ph.D., assistant professor at School of Public Health and the study's lead author. (yale.edu)
  • 4 In China, farmers in the rural sector with secondary education were trained for 3 to 6 months by urban physicians to meet the health needs of the sizable number of rural inhabitants, accounting for 80% of the whole population during the Cultural Revolution. (jabfm.org)
  • Results From 2005 to 2035, the absolute number of physicians aged 25-64 will decline by 6.1% in rural areas with an initially lower physician supply, but it will increase by 37.0% in urban areas with an initially lower supply. (bmj.com)
  • Furthermore, physicians aged 25-64 will be more concentrated in urban areas, and physicians will age more rapidly in rural places than urban ones. (bmj.com)
  • Primary care physicians (PCPs) were trained to deliver evidence-based care, and PCP office-based diabetes self-management education improved patient outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Although you may receive medical care in community hospitals as an expat, you wouldn't be able to communicate with most physicians without speaking Bahasa, as they usually don't speak English. (april-international.com)
  • Because foreigners are not qualified for the national health insurance program, the physicians at these public hospitals would likewise demand you to pay upfront. (april-international.com)
  • Information regarding patient demographics, injury type, days spent in the ward after medical clearance for discharge, and hospital invoices were collected and analyzed for orthopaedic patients treated from November 2016 to June 2017. (one.surgery)
  • We used the reported volume CT dose index stratified by patient demographics and imaging facility characteristics. (ajnr.org)
  • There is scant information on Lyme disease patient demographics in England and Wales, and how they interact with the National Health Service (NHS). (biomedcentral.com)
  • SD, Yusuf HR, Richardson LC (2015) Determinants --demographics, clinical and insurance status, preexist- of Venous Thromboembolism among Hospitalizations ing comorbid conditions, and hospital characteristics--for VTE diagnosis among of US Adults: A Multilevel Analysis. (cdc.gov)
  • We examined data from the 2010 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), the most recent nationally-representative data describing U.S. hospital discharges. (researchgate.net)
  • Because this small area model allows more in-depth analysis of patient streams both within and between cantons, it may improve support and planning of resource allocation of in-patient care in the Swiss healthcare system. (biomedcentral.com)
  • For the study, researchers for the institute, a think tank in Washington, D.C., analyzed 2017 patient data gathered by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality from 26 states. (ecsii.com)
  • For hospitals, health systems and other providers, it has been the most influential healthcare program for the industry in recent decades. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • A growing body of evidence shows that a more engaged patient experiences better health outcomes and lower use of healthcare services. (bmj.com)
  • Under this broad umbrella term, there is evidence that patient engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, 3 better patient self-management, 4 , 5 fewer diagnostic tests, 6 decreased use of healthcare services 7 and shorter lengths of stay in hospitals. (bmj.com)
  • Innovative programs to reduce overdose deaths, engage patients in substance use treatment and decrease associated healthcare costs are needed. (springer.com)
  • Caesarean section is one of the com- reflecting, in part, increased hospital- ment health offices monly performed surgical procedures based delivery and access to healthcare. (who.int)
  • Due to the country's expanding middle class and the implementation of universal healthcare, demand has increased significantly across practically all segments of the healthcare sector in Indonesia, including hospitals, medicines, and medical equipment. (april-international.com)
  • The disparity between urban and rural areas is a significant factor in Indonesia's healthcare system. (april-international.com)
  • It's crucial that our healthcare staff and patients are surrounded by the best conditions possible in order for everyone to be protected from being exposed to any unnecessary risks in the workplace. (alen.com)
  • This study assessed the compliance with COVID-19 prevention protocols among healthcare workers in Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. (bvsalud.org)
  • Although national data indicate that the number of malnutrition diagnoses among hospital discharges has been steadily rising, an in-depth examination of the demographic and clinical characteristics of these patients has not been conducted. (researchgate.net)
  • This paper develops an alternative spatial model, based upon the construction of orthopedic hospital service areas (HSA O s), and introduces indices for the analysis of patient streams in order to identify areas, irrespective of canton, with diverse characteristics, importance, needs, or demands. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To clarify the trends by regional characteristics, SMAs were divided into four groups based on urban or rural status and initial physician supply (lower/higher). (bmj.com)
  • Our aims were to explore the demographic characteristics of Lyme disease patients within the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and Patient Episode Database for Wales (PEDW), and to describe patient pathways. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We analyzed data from patients with laboratory-confirmed influenza A(H7N9) virus infection to estimate the risks for severe outcomes after hospitalization across the 3 waves. (cdc.gov)
  • 646 hospital bed-days were spent on these 72 patients when they no longer clinically required hospitalization. (one.surgery)
  • Beginning April 1, 2020, three peers and two addiction counselors attempted telephonic outreach to patients who received a CATCH consultation during hospitalization from program launch (October 7, 2019) through March 31, 2020 ( n = 329). (springer.com)
  • By engaging patients with compassion and respect, CATCH aims to improve patient initiation of MAT and linkage to SUS after hospitalization. (springer.com)
  • Based on our definition, 3.2% of all U.S. hospital discharges in 2010 had this diagnosis. (researchgate.net)
  • Relative to patients without a malnutrition diagnosis, those with the diagnosis were older, had longer lengths of stay and incurred higher costs. (researchgate.net)
  • Finally, discharge to home care was twice as common among malnourished patients, and a discharge of death was more than 5 times as common among patients with a malnutrition diagnosis. (researchgate.net)
  • Taken together, these nationally representative, cross-sectional data indicate that hospitalized patients discharged with a diagnosis of malnutrition are older and sicker and their inpatient care is more expensive than their counterparts without this diagnosis. (researchgate.net)
  • Predictors included patient age, principal diagnosis, comorbidity, whether patient stay was medical or surgical, site and whether the patient was seen by the palliative care consultation team. (duke.edu)
  • Discharges are assigned to diagnosis-related groups, which sorts them by similar clinical conditions and procedures administered by the hospital during the stay. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Patients may present with Lyme disease in either a primary care or hospital setting, with an unknown proportion receiving confirmatory laboratory diagnosis. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Conclusions Patients with heart failure as a primary diagnosis are excluded from most cardiac rehabilitation programmes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. (bmj.com)
  • Are hospitals getting 13,000 per patient if they write that on the diagnosis is COVID19 on the patient's chart, and 35,000 for each patient if they are on ventilators? (pearltrees.com)
  • Due to legal and ethical were treated in urban hospitals were associated with a 14%-15% increased likelihood of compliance and procedures for data disclosure and having a VTE diagnosis than those treated in rural hospitals. (cdc.gov)
  • Data Use Agreements (http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/ total variation in VTE diagnosis occurred between hospitals. (cdc.gov)
  • 2 ] report their findings on the gender differences in outcomes among ischemic stroke (IS) patients with intracranial atherosclerosis (ICAS), obtained from the Chinese IntraCranial AtheroSclerosis Study (CICAS). (karger.com)
  • They found no gender differences in outcomes among stroke patients with ICAS in China. (karger.com)
  • Previous studies have shown gender differences in outcomes among IS patients with ICAS. (karger.com)
  • For example, a recent prospective study conducted at a single hospital in Turkey showed that female gender was associated with severity and poor outcomes among IS patients with ICAS [ 5 ]. (karger.com)
  • However, nationwide or multicenter large studies on gender differences in outcomes among symptomatic patients with ICAS have rarely been reported. (karger.com)
  • Seroepidemiological survey of human cystic echinococcosis in nomads of and attitudes, and patients' utilization of and satisfaction with emergency services. (who.int)
  • The division of Switzerland into HSA O s provides an alternative spatial model for analysing and describing patient streams for health service utilization. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Scholars@Duke publication: Cost and utilization outcomes of patients receiving hospital-based palliative care consultation. (duke.edu)
  • Over 6 months beginning in September 2018 (including one winter season), a cross-sectional, observational, epidemiological study was conducted on a sample of patients with upper and lower RTIs diagnosed clinically and/or radiologically in the outpatient clinics at Cairo University Children's Hospital in Egypt. (springeropen.com)
  • 2 ] is of clinical importance because CICAS covers a wide geographical area in China and is not restricted only to rural or urban areas. (karger.com)
  • The objective of this study was to determine the association between sex and clinical outcomes amongst Indian trauma patients using the Australia-India Trauma Systems Collaboration database. (one.surgery)
  • The sum of these CCM component parts are purported to create more effective health care delivery systems that institute mechanisms for decision support, link health care systems to community resources and policies, deliver comprehensive self-management support services for patients, and operate and manage patient-centered clinical information systems. (cdc.gov)
  • Information was obtained from clinical notes and surgical records for each patient using a standardized data collection form that was specifically developed to investigate the epidemiologic features of maxillofacial trauma. (bvsalud.org)
  • In areas where trauma systems have developed, EMS and trauma providers are interdependent, working closely within an established protocol to help ensure that patients are transported to the most appropriate facility as quickly as possible. (nationalacademies.org)
  • However, data regarding differences in trauma outcomes between females and males is severely lacking from low- and middle-income countries. (one.surgery)
  • Gardens were shown to help patients with stress and emotional trauma. (trinitynews.ie)
  • Conclusion Almost all hospitals surveyed in the present study have the ability to care for trauma patients. (highwire.org)
  • Nairobi County could benefit from formally coordinating the triage of trauma patients to more facilities to decrease travel time and potentially improve patient outcomes. (highwire.org)
  • 4 RTIs were the second leading cause of traumatic injury in a community survey of Nairobi slums, the leading cause of death from trauma in Western Kenya, and, most recently, the leading cause of admission to the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) Accident and Emergency (A&E) department. (highwire.org)
  • Logistic regression assessed association of sex with the primary outcomes of 30-day and 24-hour in-hospital mortality. (one.surgery)
  • SA) has significantly decreased the mortality rate from HIV. (who.int)
  • Observed vs expected hospital mortality (A) and average cost per case (B) at 309 US hospitals. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Standardized cost residuals vs standardized mortality rates at 309 US hospitals. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Adjusted mortality by quintile of hospital spending and teaching status (A) and bed size (B). Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Lindenauer PKPekow PWang KGutierrez BBenjamin EM Lipid-lowering therapy and in-hospital mortality following major noncardiac surgery. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Patients in the A and B graded hospitals received safer care overall, with fewer adverse outcomes - but those hospitals' inability to close the racial and ethnic disparity gap was glaring. (newsreview.com)
  • This enabled hospital employees to predict visits and admissions for up to 15 days in advance, significantly improving the patient experience. (alteryx.com)
  • Of the 113.9 million ED visits that occurred in 2003, an estimated 14 percent were made by patients who arrived by ambulance. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The percentage of outpatient visits in primary care significantly declined from 63% in 2005 to 59% in 2013 ( P = .002). (jabfm.org)
  • Wennberg JEFisher ESStukel TASkinner JSSharp SMBronner KK Use of hospitals, physician visits, and hospice care during last six months of life among cohorts loyal to highly respected hospitals in the United States. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Purpose: To examine rural-urban differences in the use of mental health services (mental health and substance abuse office visits, and mental health prescriptions) and in the out-of-pocket costs paid for these services. (rrh.org.au)
  • this led to the proliferation of specialized care in hospitals. (jabfm.org)
  • During the initial COVID-19 surge, one public hospital in NYC updated their post-discharge outreach approach for patients with substance use disorder, as part of the CATCH (Consult for Addiction Treatment and Care in Hospitals) program. (springer.com)
  • 4 Among the initiatives supported by this funding was the launch of the "Consult for Addiction Treatment and Care in Hospitals (CATCH)" program, which now operates at six NYC public hospitals. (springer.com)
  • Furthermore, we conducted a group comparison to identify significant differences across these 2 groups. (jmir.org)
  • However, we found significant differences in patients' perception of media effectiveness: patients perceived FtF communication to be a more favorable medium ( P =.02). (jmir.org)
  • The significant differences across racial/ethnic groups in the use of high-volume hospitals and surgeons persisted after adjusting for these and other factors. (yale.edu)
  • Research has also examined how information technology (IT)-mediated communication among patients with chronic disease can improve their health outcomes [ 6 , 7 ] and how media differ in effectiveness according to the communication process for which they are used (eg, scheduling an appointment and discussing acute symptoms). (jmir.org)
  • About 3,400 acute-care hospitals and 435 long-term care hospitals receive payments under the IPPS. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Results The response rate was 42%, with 1457 acute care hospitals completing the survey. (bmj.com)
  • A 2015 study on severe acute respiratory illness in Egyptian patients found that the causative organism was influenza A in almost half of cases, influenza B in 25% and respiratory syncytial virus in another 25%, with 35.3% of patients being children under 5 years of age [ 10 ]. (springeropen.com)
  • These findings suggest that the hospitals most adept at achieving safe care overall are no better at identifying and narrowing inequities in the delivery of that care," the report's authors wrote. (newsreview.com)
  • As calls for making the health care system more consumer-directed grow louder, these findings suggest that minority patients may need additional resources and assistance in finding and accessing high-quality medical providers," Epstein said. (yale.edu)
  • Despite measures that have been taken to reduce disparities between middle-income and poor citizens, vast differences still exist. (wikipedia.org)
  • there are also vast differences in the quality of medical care available in different parts of Indonesia. (april-international.com)
  • Patient streams between the HSA O s were analysed by calculating three indices: the localization index (% local residents discharged locally), the netindex (the ratio of discharges of nonlocal incoming residents to outgoing local residents), and the market share index (% of local resident discharges of all discharges in local hospitals). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Since January 1997, all Swiss hospital discharges are collected yearly in the Swiss Federal Statistical Office's medical statistics of stationary institutions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 12 Medical practices became profit-driven entities, and hospitals competed for patients with primary care facilities. (jabfm.org)
  • Objective We report on a survey of hospitals in the USA regarding their PFE practices during 2013-2014. (bmj.com)
  • Summary Our findings indicate that there is a large variation in hospital implementation of PFE practices, with competing organisational priorities being the most commonly identified barrier to adoption. (bmj.com)
  • 6 As government officials instituted mandatory stay-at-home orders and hospitals struggled to quickly implement distancing practices, NYC public hospital patients with SUD faced disrupted access to SUS. (springer.com)
  • Both HIV-EU and HIV-U children had significantly shorter PICU admissions and fewer days of mechanical ventilation compared with HIV-infected children (p=0.011 and p=0.004, respectively). (who.int)
  • Patient Episode Database for Wales (PEDW) is a central administrative database that collects admissions data from NHS hospitals in Wales [ 17 , 18 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Additionally, they would like to identify some of the system- and patient-level barriers to TAVI access. (tctmd.com)
  • [5] Additionally, there is a highly apparent contrast between maternal health in rural (poor) versus urban environments. (wikipedia.org)
  • 7. Additionally, the IPPS final rule promotes quality care by enacting a 1 percent reimbursement cut for hospitals with the poorest performance (in the lowest quartile) in reducing hospital-acquired conditions. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • 5-7 Additionally, it has been shown that when matatus (semi--public 'busses' which ferry passengers between informal stops) are involved in RTIs, occupants commonly require hospital admission. (highwire.org)
  • The findings of this study provide evidence for policy makers that health services reform is required to promote healthy lifestyle behaviours for the patients. (nih.gov)
  • Between October 2007 and June 2009, the authors used the results of a large prospective cohort study in 22 general hospitals and collected information from 1,335 IS patients with ICAS. (karger.com)
  • 2 ]. The difference may be not only due to the study design but also due to the background of the study population. (karger.com)
  • Future nationwide investigations focused on gender differences are needed in many countries for comparisons with the study by Pu et al. (karger.com)
  • 8 - 11 ] The Chennai glaucoma study (CGS) is a population-based cross-sectional study in a rural and an urban south Indian population aged ≥40 years. (lww.com)
  • We've known that Black and white adult patients experience differences in hospital patient safety measures for several decades," said study author Anuj Gangopadhyaya. (ecsii.com)
  • Our study shows that many minorities with serious medical conditions are receiving treatment in hospitals and with surgeons who have performed fewer of the procedures needed to address their medical conditions. (yale.edu)
  • The researchers found that the white patients in the study were generally older and lived in the city's wealthier enclaves. (yale.edu)
  • Presenting the results of their study at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) 2021 Scientific Sessions , Nathan said they also observed significant socioeconomic disparities in TAVI access, noting that hospitals adopting programs tended to be located in areas with more-affluent patients. (tctmd.com)
  • This study aims to characterize the impact of this policy on patients and hospital systems in resource-limited settings. (one.surgery)
  • This cross-sectional study involved 384 diabetic patients at Begoro District Hospital, Ghana. (hindawi.com)
  • A study among urban and rural settlers in a Ghanaian population found an increased cardiometabolic risk factors among urban settlers due to their increased sedentary and unhealthy dietary habits [ 7 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • This study describes the population of children admitted to the of pneumonia, which increases the demands on scarce paediatric PICU at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital (CHBAH) intensive care unit (PICU) services in the region. (who.int)
  • one study reported that longer visiting hours in the intensive care unit were linked to a reduction in cardiovascular complications, possibly through patients' reduced anxiety and better hormonal profiles. (bmj.com)
  • for example, one study found that patient-centred communication was associated with longer visit length. (bmj.com)
  • Objectives This study aimed to assess pregnancy and delivery outcomes in women with a history of stillbirth in a large tertiary referral hospital. (degruyter.com)
  • Parents were also sent a questionnaire regarding their long-term satisfaction with the ear molding treatment process.A total of 184 ears of 114 patients meeting inclusion criteria were treated during the study period. (stanford.edu)
  • The aim of this study was to investigate caregiving burden and depression in paid caregivers of hospitalized patients. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A cross-sectional survey study was conducted in a tertiary referral hospital (Chengdu, China) that enrolled 108 paid caregivers who worked in the inpatient department. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Findings: Study findings reveal a complicated pattern of greater need among rural than urban adults for mental health services, lower rural office-based mental health use and higher rural prescription use, and no rural-urban differences in total or out-of-pocket expenditures for mental health services. (rrh.org.au)
  • This cross-sectional study was conducted in three general and four psychiatric hospitals in Anhui Province, China, from January to July 2021. (frontiersin.org)
  • This 10-year retrospectively study was undertaken by the Graduate Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Division, University of Campinas - UNICAMP at 7 hospitals located in the cities of Piracicaba, Limeira and Rio Claro, São Paulo state. (bvsalud.org)
  • The population includes all midwives between the ages of 21 and 60 years who work in antenatal care (ANC) clinics in 11 district hospitals in the Central Region of Ghana where the study was conducted. (bvsalud.org)
  • Instead of using the previously defined general hospital service areas by Klauss et al, this paper defines orthopedic hospital service areas (HSA O s) that use Swiss orthopedic discharge data from 2000-2002. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The volume CT dose index was lower in children's hospitals (median, 26 mGy) versus academic hospitals (median, 32 mGy) and community hospitals (median, 40 mGy). (ajnr.org)
  • Seen in reverse, Black patients were also found to be 5 percentage points less likely to gain access to facilities ranking "high-quality" on every measure of surgical safety. (ecsii.com)
  • Epstein, along with Mark J. Schlesinger, Ph.D., professor at the School of Public Health, and Bradford H. Gray, Ph.D., of the Urban Institute, studied 133,821 patients who underwent one of 10 surgical procedures in New York City. (yale.edu)
  • ICAS rates are disproportionately higher in Asian patients than in white patients [ 4 ]. (karger.com)
  • However, in the subjective evaluations VR-based training showed a significantly higher perceived task load and a lower usability rating than the AR- and video-based training regimes. (bvsalud.org)
  • Across 11 such categories at all hospitals, Black patients had significantly higher rates of adverse events than white patients in five, and lower rates in only two. (newsreview.com)
  • Latino patients experienced higher rates of adverse outcomes than white patients in two of 11 categories and lower rates in four, the report found. (newsreview.com)
  • The primary question we wanted to examine was whether the higher-graded hospitals were able to reduce those disparities. (newsreview.com)
  • For example, barriers to access can be reduced by expanding insurance coverage for buprenorphine treatment, reducing cost sharing, eliminating prior authorization for treatment, and incentivizing providers to treat these patients by offering higher reimbursements. (rand.org)
  • People who walked through nature were found to be in a better mood and scored significantly higher on attention and memory tests than those walking through urban areas. (trinitynews.ie)
  • In order to increase the accuracy of the future projection and make it easier to understand, we divided 342 areas into 4 area groups based on urban/rural status and lower/higher physician supply, based on earlier studies. (bmj.com)
  • Several indices that describe patient streams can help identify areas that attract and treat local or nonlocal residents, and HSAs allow more precise analysis of potential health supply shortages or overcapacities. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Radiation dose indices for single-phase noncontrast head CT examinations in patients 18 years of age and younger were retrospectively reviewed between July 2011 and June 2016 using the American College of Radiology CT Dose Index Registry. (ajnr.org)
  • Variations in risk factors among populations from different countries may explain differences in the ICAS incidence. (karger.com)
  • We further compared outcomes between the rural and urban populations. (lww.com)
  • These patients were more likely to have 27 of 29 comorbidities assessed in HCUP. (researchgate.net)
  • CONCLUSION: PC was associated with significantly lower likelihood of ICU use and lower inpatient costs compared to UC. (duke.edu)
  • In a recent proof of concept in Paris, four hospitals crunched around 10 years' worth of data to identify patterns in admission rates and assist resource allocation. (alteryx.com)
  • And a new report underscores how truly intractable those problems are - because it brings race-based disparities right into the safest hospitals in the United States. (newsreview.com)
  • According to the report, which was released this month by the Leapfrog Group, America's A-graded hospitals - so denoted because of their superior record of keeping patients safe from preventable harm - do no better at reducing racial health disparities than hospitals at the bottom of the scale. (newsreview.com)
  • Most significantly, the disparities didn't vary much no matter how well a hospital was graded for safety. (newsreview.com)
  • There's certainly a lot of literature out there about some of the causes of the disparities in general, including cultural competency (in understanding race-based health differences) among health care providers," Austin said in a telephone interview. (newsreview.com)
  • The findings, said lead investigator Ashwin Nathan, MD (Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), highlight the disparities in access to new advances in cardiovascular medicine. (tctmd.com)
  • For example, they plan to delve into the 25 largest urban areas to determine if there are disparities in access to care based on socioeconomic status and race. (tctmd.com)
  • 7 (23.3%) permanent physical damage from emergencc were urban centres and the remainder were cies, attention must be given to the delivery rural centres. (who.int)
  • Outcomes of cataract surgery in a rural and urban south Indi. (lww.com)
  • Three thousand nine hundred and twenty-four rural subjects from 27 contiguous villages and 3850 urban subjects from five randomly selected divisions were studied. (lww.com)
  • Five hundred and twenty-eight (216 males, 312 females, 781 eyes) rural subjects (13.5%, 95% confidence interval (CI) 12.4% to 14.6%) and 406 (197 males, 209 females, 604 eyes) urban subjects (10.5%, 95% CI 9.6-11.5%) had undergone cataract surgery. (lww.com)
  • In 30% of rural and 16% of urban subjects uncorrected refraction was the cause of visual impairment. (lww.com)
  • In urban and rural areas, three government medical insurance systems-Urban Residents Basic Medical Insurance, Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance, and the New Rural Co-operative Medical Scheme-cover almost everyone. (wikipedia.org)
  • Others have shown that in addition to race and ethnicity, people living in rural areas face challenges accessing hospitals with TAVI programs. (tctmd.com)
  • Highlighting the inequitable access to TAVI, session moderator David Cox, MD (Cardiovascular Associates/Brookwood Baptist Hospital, Birmingham, AL), pointed to the CMS volume requirements and wondered if another model might be needed for smaller, rural communities. (tctmd.com)
  • In rural areas, it was found that less than half of women had skilled attendants with them during delivery, compared to nearly 90% of urban women. (wikipedia.org)
  • This can be seen from the fact that the majority of people in rural areas do not go to the hospital when they are sick, but rather rely on traditional medicine or self-medication. (april-international.com)
  • Rurality was defined using Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and Rural Urban Continuum Codes (RUCCs). (rrh.org.au)
  • Overall, there were no significant rural-urban differences in receipt of any type of formal depression treatment. (rrh.org.au)
  • Logistic regression analysis showed that patients with more severe depressive symptoms (odds ratio [OR] = 1.05, 95% CI: 1.03-1.08), those living in a rural area (OR = 1.94, 95% CI: 1.15-3.27), and those with poor academic performance (OR = 2.90, 95% CI: 1.42-5.95) were more likely to have IA symptoms. (frontiersin.org)
  • 3 Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders, Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia. (nih.gov)
  • Importantly, it also includes medical direction provided through preestablished medical protocols or a direct link to a hospital or physician. (nationalacademies.org)
  • In addition, air ambulance operations allow more advanced medical capacity to be delivered to patients directly and can often reduce transport times to medical facilities. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The disappointing finding is that A-graded hospitals don't do better, for the most part," said Matt Austin, a Johns Hopkins medical school faculty member who provides strategic guidance to Leapfrog on its annual hospital survey. (newsreview.com)
  • Four concerned general medical safety issues, such as pressure ulcer rates and in-hospital falls with hip fractures. (ecsii.com)
  • Disease registries and electronic medical records were used to establish patient-centered goals, monitor patient progress, and identify lapses in care. (cdc.gov)
  • Under the CATCH model, medically trained addiction providers, social workers, addiction counselors, and peers with lived experience in addiction engage with hospitalized patients who have diagnosed or suspected substance use disorder (SUD), including but not limited to opioid use disorder (OUD), and are admitted to the hospital for medical reasons. (springer.com)
  • 9 While CATCH medical providers and social workers were largely reassigned to overburdened medical departments in late March 2020, peers and addiction counselors remained available for patient outreach. (springer.com)
  • CATCH addiction counselors and peers at one NYC public hospital changed their approach by including comprehensive counseling, in-depth peer support, and tele-delivered MAT appointments with CATCH medical providers as part of their post-discharge outreach. (springer.com)
  • therefore, they are a group of vulnerable people or "invisible patients" who need attention or interventions from medical staff and social workers. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Data were collected through face-to-face interviews with patients using validated tools. (nih.gov)
  • By means of these data, an exact inventory of the status of the Swiss health care supply and hospital usage can be established. (biomedcentral.com)
  • For more than a decade, Leapfrog, a nonprofit watchdog group dedicated to transparency in health care, has compiled and measured data from U.S. hospitals and used it to issue safety grades to hospitals on a traditional A through F scale. (newsreview.com)
  • Data from 1st January 1998 to 31st December 2015 was retrieved from the two administrative hospital datasets (HES and PEDW), based on patients coded with Lyme disease. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Within hospital admission data ( n = 2066), most cases were either referred from primary care (28.8%, n = 596) or admitted via accident and emergency (A&E) (29.5%, n = 610). (biomedcentral.com)
  • These data can be used to inform future investigations into Lyme disease burden, and patient management within the NHS. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Data was collected from patients during a 10-year period (1999-2009). (bvsalud.org)
  • The data recorded only patients sustaining maxillofacial injuries after motorcycle accidents. (bvsalud.org)
  • Among hospitalizations of adults, age, sex, race or ethnicity, total days of hospital stay, sta- by anyone for any lawful purpose. (cdc.gov)
  • While there are many glaring exceptions, first responders in urban and suburban areas are generally able to arrive on scene within minutes of notification, with ambulance crews close behind. (nationalacademies.org)
  • A trend to more centrally provided health services can be observed not only in large urban HSA O s such as Geneva, Bern, Basel, and Zurich, but also in HSA O s in mountain sport areas such as Sion, Davos, or St.Moritz. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In addition to a traditional analysis based on cantons, studies based on hospital service areas (HSAs) can be performed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Healthy China 2020 focuses the most on urban, populous areas that are heavily influenced by globalization and modernity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many of the aims of Healthy China 2020 are concentrated to more-urban areas under Western influences. (wikipedia.org)
  • Public health campaigns to improve environmental and hygienic conditions were also implemented, especially in urban areas. (wikipedia.org)
  • There was a bimodal age distribution, patients were predominantly female, white and from areas of low deprivation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Alen® recommends an air purifier for each hospital room, however the primary places in hospitals that need Alen® air purifiers are, recovery rooms, treatment rooms, areas where critical procedures are performed, testing and research laboratories, equipment rooms, incubator rooms, compounding pharmacies, and infectious disease areas or isolations rooms. (alen.com)
  • We conducted a web-based survey of 345 patients to explore the impact of different channels on effective communication and perceived health behavior and outcomes. (jmir.org)
  • We tested the impact of patients' perceived communication and media effectiveness on their self-efficacy, communication satisfaction, and perceived health outcomes, separately for text-based information technology (IT)-mediated communication and FtF communication. (jmir.org)
  • These patients account for 90% of the US $3.3 trillion annual health care costs. (jmir.org)
  • Yet even the safest hospitals in the country still reflect wide differences in health outcomes based on patients' skin color. (newsreview.com)
  • And while any number of factors - inferior access to care, difficulty finding regular doctors - might contribute to the overall health issues of someone relying on a program like Medi-Cal, even the safest-graded facilities didn't make it less likely that they'd receive unsafe care when they were actually in the hospital. (newsreview.com)
  • Diet is causing obesity issues, and an influx of modern transportation is negatively affecting urban environments and thus health. (wikipedia.org)
  • These include taking irrational hospital expansion under strict control through enhancing the government's accountability for health care industry regulation, strategies to recruit and retain a quality primary care workforce, empowering PCPs as gatekeepers in the system, timely evaluation of the impact of health reforms on primary care, and modifying damaging policies. (jabfm.org)
  • Only five hospitals have acquired international accreditation, and only roughly 50% of private hospitals are recognised by the Ministry of Health. (april-international.com)
  • Since 1989 Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) have recorded every 'episode' of admitted patient care (APC) delivered in National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in England [ 16 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Air quality health is an increasing concern in hospitals where patients and workers can be exposed to airborne pathogens. (alen.com)
  • These accidents increase dramatically the health costs involved in treatment and rehabilitation of the injured patients, and have interrupted the life of thousands of people, especially in the economically active age range (adolescents and young adults) 1 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Interestingly, we found no significant difference in terms of benefits ( P =.09) and success ( P =.08) of IT-mediated communication versus FtF communication. (jmir.org)
  • Black patients are significantly less likely to gain access to "high-quality" hospitals, an Urban Institute analysis found. (ecsii.com)
  • Differences in insurance coverage didn't explain the racial divide, the report found. (ecsii.com)
  • The researchers examined tens of thousands of patients and found that African Americans were significantly less likely than their white peers to get surgery for many potentially life-threatening conditions at hospitals and by surgeons who performed the highest number of procedures for various cancers, cardiovascular diseases and hip replacement. (yale.edu)
  • They found that for nine of these procedures, African Americans were less likely than white patients to be treated by both a high-volume hospital and a high-volume surgeon. (yale.edu)
  • 346 of the 867 orthopaedic patients (39.9%) treated during this time period were found to have spent additional days in the hospital due to their inability to pay their hospital bill. (one.surgery)
  • In addition, many studies have found biological mechanisms associated with DM that independently increase the risk of CVD in diabetic patients [ 10 - 12 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • We found a wide range of scores across hospitals. (bmj.com)
  • Leapfrog closely studied what it calls "adverse safety events," which are problems or complications in both general hospital and surgery-specific settings, and then looked at the racial and ethnic breakdowns of those events in three safety-grade cohorts: A, B and C/D/F. (newsreview.com)
  • Stage 2: 35 centres that indicated in stage 1 that they provide a separate cardiac rehabilitation programme for patients with heart failure. (bmj.com)
  • Of those 134 centres not providing for patients with heart failure, 84% considered a lack of resources and 55% exclusion from commissioning contracts as the reason for not recruiting patients with heart failure. (bmj.com)
  • To find out the features of cardiac rehabilitation centres that offer a service to patients with heart failure. (bmj.com)
  • Only one in six cardiac rehabilitation centres offers a dedicated cardiac rehabilitation programme for patients with heart failure. (bmj.com)
  • The segmentation of Switzerland into HSAs offers a meaningful spatial model that enables more detailed examination of stationary hospital services used by HSA residents and nonresidents. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A more detailed examination is needed of mother, insurer, hospital and provider attitudes toward elective caesareans. (who.int)
  • Most patients had inadequate consumption of fruit and vegetables, 51.6% were physically inactive, 20% were current khat chewers, 19% were current alcohol drinkers and only 1% were current smokers. (nih.gov)
  • The fiscal year 2015 IPPS final rule was released in early August and increases hospital inpatient payment rates by 1.4 percent. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • A total of 287 cardiovascular disease patients was recruited, of which 56.4% were women and 90.2% were urban residents. (nih.gov)
  • Cardiovascular disease patients continue to follow unhealthy lifestyles although they attend follow-up care with a specific focus on risk management. (nih.gov)
  • Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors such as obesity, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia are common in patients with DM, placing them at increased risk for cardiac events [ 10 , 11 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Patients entered the model insured under Medicaid and were treated under state-specific restrictions by Metavir fibrosis stage (base case) or all treated (all-patient strategy) with an approved all-oral regimen (ledipasvir/sofosbuvir [LDV/SOF] for 8 weeks or 12 weeks, depending on cirrhosis status, viral load, and state-specific LDV/SOF restrictions). (cdc.gov)
  • RESULTS: The sustained virologic response (SVR) rate of the current Medicaid LDV/SOF restriction strategy was 75.2% versus 95.9% if all LDV/SOF-eligible patients were treated under Medicaid. (cdc.gov)
  • for Medicaid patients, it was eight of 11. (newsreview.com)
  • For hospitals to cope financially with this burden, they often mandate that patients pay their entire hospital bill before leaving the hospital. (one.surgery)
  • However, very few studies have examined patients' perspectives regarding the increased use of text-based communication versus face-to-face (FtF) communication. (jmir.org)
  • Our results showed that there was no difference between AR-, VR- and video-based training concerning the objective performance measures task completion time and error count. (bvsalud.org)
  • The most recent survey, undertaken in partnership with the Urban Institute, mined the results of millions of patients, including those in California. (newsreview.com)
  • The results suggest a double whammy for Black patients. (newsreview.com)
  • RESULTS: PC patients were 42 percentage points (95% CI, -56% [corrected] to -31%) less likely to be admitted to ICU. (duke.edu)
  • Senior author Jay Giri, MD (Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania), who spoke after Nathan's presentation, told the session's audience that their results show "market forces overwhelmingly seemed to drive the development of new TAVR programs over access to care considerations. (tctmd.com)
  • Results: We identified 84 studies (18,239 patients) for the primary analysis. (one.surgery)
  • These rates go up significantly when discussing the poor. (wikipedia.org)
  • The HRR program is a national quality initiative that penalizes hospitals for high 30-day readmission rates for certain conditions for patients, after adjusting for patients' illness severity. (beckershospitalreview.com)