How much outpatient care is provided for injuries?

How Much Can We Save the Cost from Shifting from Single - Test Strip to Multiple - Test Strip in Point of Care Testing Analysis for Common Clinical Chemistry Parameters ?

Outpatient use and costs for veterans with combat-related injuries.

Elizabeth Bass, PhD; Dustin D. French, PhD; Kris Siddharthan, PhD The Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center (PRC) at the James A. Haley Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital in Tampa, Florida, is one of four centers in the United States managing postacute sequelae of polytrauma for injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. In accordance with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA...

How much do I save if I use my health insurance card when seeking outpatient care? Evidence from a low-income country.

Much of the existing literature on the financial protection of health insurance focuses on the impact of insurance status on total out-of-pocket expenditure on all sorts of care sought, regardless of whether the insured patients use their health insurance cards. Using Vietnam's 2006 Household Living Standard Survey data and an appropriate multivariate regression model, this article assesses the...

Optimal Aminoglycoside Therapy Following the Sepsis: How Much Is Too Much?

Severe sepsis and septic shock are major problems as the result of high rates morbidity andmortality in intensive care units (ICUs). In the presence of septic shock, each hour of delay inthe administration of effective antibiotics is associated with a measurable increase in mortality.Aminoglycosides are effective broad-spectrum antibiotics that are commonly used in ICUs forthe treatment of life...

Patient Flow Analysis in General Hospitals: How Clinical Disciplines Affect Outpatient Wait Times

Background: Overcrowding is an important problem for outpatient services in healthcare facilities. Patient flow analysis (PFA) is a useful method for identifying inefficiencies in and facilitating patient flow. Objective: PFA was used to estimate patient wait time and determine how different clinical disciplines impact wait times in the studied hospital.<...