FACTORS INFLUENCING HOSPITAL COSTS

Factors influencing hospital high length of stay

Factors Influencing Hospital Supply Chain Resilience: A Qualitative Study

  Background: The complexity and intensity of environmental fluctuations combined with unexpected accidents and dangers have increased the probability of hospital supply chain disruptions. Supply chain resilience has been suggested as a strategy for dealing with such challenges and for continued provision of appropriate and efficient services in hospital at the time of disaster. The present st...

Factors Influencing System-of-Systems Architecting and Integration Costs

Today’s need for more complex, more capable systems in a short timeframe is leading more organizations towards the integration of existing systems into networkcentric, knowledge-based system-of-systems (SoS). Software and system cost model tools to-date have focused on the software and system development activities of a single software system. As we view the new SoS architectures, we find that ...

Costs, Distribution of Costs, and Factors Influencing Profitability in Cow-Calf Production

Factors influencing in-hospital delay in treatment with intravenous thrombolysis.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Shortening door-to-needle time (DNT) for the thrombolytic treatment of stroke can improve treatment efficacy by reducing onset-to-treatment time. The goal of our study was to explore the association between DNT and outcome and to identify factors influencing DNT to better understand why some patients are treated late. METHODS Prospectively collected data from the Safe I...