US Physician Practices Spend More Than $15.4 Billion Annually To Report Quality Measures

US Physician Practices Spend More Than $15.4 Billion Annually To Report Quality Measures.

Each year US physician practices in four common specialties spend, on average, 785 hours per physician and more than $15.4 billion dealing with the reporting of quality measures. While much is to be gained from quality measurement, the current system is unnecessarily costly, and greater effort is needed to standardize measures and make them easier to report.

Canadians continue to spend more on drugs than doctors.

The economic consequences of malnutrition in Cambodia, more than 400 million US dollar lost annually.

BACKGROUND Cambodia is among the 28 worst countries globally with the highest rates of childhood malnutrition. The aim of the assessment was to apply published evidence associating malnutrition and a variety of functional consequences to project economic implications of this high rate of childhood malnutrition. Such information is vital to advocate for appropriate programs and action plan to re...

Do DEEP Institutions Spend More or Differently Than Their Peers

Background. In September 2004 the NSSE Institute requested the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) to undertake an expenditure analysis for twenty institutions selected as study sites for the Documenting Effective Educational Practices (DEEP) project. DEEP institutions were selected for study because they performed at higher than expected levels on both NSSE benchma...

Domitilla Catacomb Walkthrough – Dealing with more than 1 Billion Points

In this paper we would like to present our application for editing and visualizing huge point clouds. We also show how we used our application to build a model of the Domitilla Catacomb in Rome, which is the largest catacomb in Rome. It is an Early-Christian necropolis spanning 15 km of subterranean galleries. The catacomb contains tombs and community burials, where some of the tombs are painte...