Inpatient Services for Children

Inpatient rehabilitation services: regulatory changes.

Inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) operate in a changing environment. First was the transition from the reimbursement system of the 1980s and 1990s to our current Prospective Payment System. Along with that came the challenges of educating and re-educating staff and patients about achieving optimal outcomes within prescribed periods of time. Now the paradigm is shifting once again. This...

Inpatient and Outpatient Hospital Services Handbook

Inpatient and Outpatient Hospital Services Handbook

Trends in inpatient detoxification services, 1992-1997.

The paper examines trends in the use of inpatient substance abuse detoxification provided at general hospitals using data from the Healthcare Utilization and Cost Project - National Inpatient Survey. Most persons who received inpatient detoxification did not also receive rehabilitation while an inpatient. The percentage receiving rehabilitation declined between 1992 and 1997 from 38.9% to 21.1%...

Consumer Perception of Inpatient Medical Services

Although it is currently popular to reflect consumers' perspectives to medical service management, insufficient attempts have been made to understand detailed perception of the consumer side of medical services to promote medical services' evaluation from the consumer viewpoint. The aim of this study was to descriptively reveal how consumers perceive medical services that they receive, focusing...