Changes in Hospital Inpatient Utilization Following Health Care Reform

Home care and health reform: changes in home care utilization in one Canadian province, 1990-2000.

PURPOSE This study examines population-based trends in home care service utilization, alone and in conjunction with hospitalizations, during a period of health reform in Canada. It focuses on the extent to which observed trends suggest enhanced community-based care relative to three competing hypotheses: cost-cutting, medicalization, and profitization. DESIGN AND METHODS Analyses drew on admi...

189: Patient Mri Utilization before and after Iranian Health Care Reform in Shiraz Governance Hospital

Background and aims: This study aimed to compare MRI utilization in governmental hospital 6months before and after Iranian health care reform in equal 6 months for 92&93. Methods: This is cross sectional study and data gathered from R&D department of Shiraz University of medical sciences and for data analysis used excell2007 and calculated utilization index Results: The total number of MRI scan...

Remote Hospital Reform in the Context of Australian Health Care Reforms

Public hospitals play an important role in the delivery of essential healthcare in Australia as in many countries. The Australian Government has in the recent years implemented national healthcare reform to improve the performance of and access to public hospital services. This reform extends to all public hospitals including remote hospitals. However, there is limited information on how reform...

The ratchet effect: dramatic and sustained changes in health care utilization following admission to hospital with chronic disease

Objective: To describe the previously unexamined association between admissions to hospital with chronic disease and changes in all-cause health service utilization over time. Research Design: A cohort study examining the population of Western Australia with hospitalizations for chronic disease from 2002 to 2010. A "rolling" clearance period is used to define "cardinal events," that is, a disea...

Changes in mortality after Massachusetts health care reform.