Steven R Eastaugh
Steven R Eastaugh
An institution life cycle hypothesis is advanced to explain hospital behavior: boom and bust, diversification and divestiture, occasionally leading to closure or merger. Hospital diversification and its impact on the operating ratio are stu...
Identifying Centers of Excellence in Efficiency and Quality in coronary revascularization: an exploratory approach for procedure-specific value-based purchasing program design [0.03%]
基于价值的采购程序设计中识别冠状动脉血运重建效率和质量卓越中心的探索性方法
Shadi S Saleh,Edward Hannan,Mike Racz
Shadi S Saleh
The advent of the value-based purchasing (VBP) concept in which efficiency and quality are considered prompted an interest in exploring approaches that incorporate both. This study examined a hospital classification method, Centers for Exce...
Susan E Mooney,Michelle A Russell,Beth Prairie et al.
Susan E Mooney et al.
Introduction: Group prenatal care may have benefits over traditional care; however, the economic performance of this model is largely unexplored. We sought to understand the finances of group prenatal care at a small, rur...
Implementing an essential medicines list: effects on pricing and utilization in West Bank, Palestine [0.03%]
实施基本药物目录：巴勒斯坦西岸地区的价格和使用情况的影响
Samer Hamidi,Mustafa Z Younis,Dana A Forgione
Samer Hamidi
The purpose of this article is to examine the effects of implementing an essential medicines list (EML) on medicine prices, utilization and aggregate cost savings in the public sector of West Bank, Palestine. The Palestinian Ministry of Hea...
Niccie L McKay
Niccie L McKay
This study addresses the question of whether managed care increases administrative burden by examining the association between the extent of managed care payment and administrative costs in hospitals. The data set includes acute-care urban ...
A psychosocial approach to dentistry for the underserved: incorporating theory into practice [0.03%]
针对医疗资源不足人群的牙科学的身心结合疗法：理论与实践相结合的方法
Paul J Flaer,Mustafa Z Younis,Paul L Benjamin et al.
Paul J Flaer et al.
Background: Dentistry for the underserved is more than an egalitarian social issue--it is a key factor in the health and social progress of our nation. The first signs or manifestations of several diseases such as varicel...
Avoiding the trap in the HITECH Act's incentive timeframe for implementing the EHR [0.03%]
谨防HITECH法案中关于电子病历实施激励时间表的陷阱
Jonathan P Tomes
Jonathan P Tomes
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, often called the Stimulus Package or the Stimulus Bill, contains a section called the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act). The HITECH Act made s...
Vivian G Valdmanis
Vivian G Valdmanis
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) techniques have been applied to the assessing efficiency and productivity among individual hospitals. In this article, we employ DEA to address whether economies of scale exist among hospital markets by first...
Gary A Simon
Gary A Simon
Long-term care insurance has not sold well in the United States. The issues are cost, complex financial problems, uncertainty about inflation, and concerns about the future of health care in general. The heart of the problem may well be tha...
Billie Ann Brotman
Billie Ann Brotman
This article examines demand factors for sophisticated medical treatments offered by private hospitals operating in India. Three types of medical tourism exist: Outbound, Inbound, and Intrabound. Increased profitability and positive growth ...