Can Variation in Hospital Procedure Rates Identify Candidates for Health Technology Reassessment and Disinvestment?

Unexplained variation in hospital caesarean section rates.

OBJECTIVES To assess recent hospital caesarean section (CS) rates in New South Wales, adjusted for case mix; to quantify the amount of variation that can be explained by case mix differences; and to examine the potential impact on the overall CS rate of reducing variation in practice. DESIGN AND SETTING Population-based record linkage study of births in 81 hospitals in New South Wales, 2009-2...

Identify blockchain technology strategies in the oil and gas industry

The purpose of the research is to identify blockchain technology strategies in the oil and gas industry. In this research, the mixed research method has been used. In the qualitative part of the research community, there were experts in the field of blockchain technology, 12 of whom were purposefully selected for in-depth interviews. Open and axial coding was used to analyze the data. The stati...

Tackling disinvestment in health care services

: metadiscourse in introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics research articles: exploring variation in frequency and type

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...

Health Technology Reassessment: the Art of the Possible

BACKGROUND Health technology reassessment (HTR) is "a structured, evidence-based assessment of the clinical, social, ethical, and economic effects of a technology currently used in the healthcare system, to inform optimal use of that technology in comparison to its alternatives." The purpose of this study is to describe the key themes in the context of current HTR activities and propose a way f...