PURPOSE Recently robotic approaches to cystectomy have been reported, and while clinical and oncological efficacy continues to be evaluated, potential financial costs have not been clearly evaluated. In this study we present a financial analysis using current cost structures and clinical outcomes for robotic and open cystectomy for bladder cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS The financial costs of ...

In this study, I use panel data from municipal Japanese National Health Insurance (JNHI) insurers to estimate their financial efficiency scores using nonparametric methods and to estimate the causal effects of structural and regional characteristics on the efficiency scores consistently using econometric methods. The major findings of this study are as follows. First, the estimated efficiency s...

PURPOSE To model the budget and survival impact of implementing interventions to increase the proportion of HIV infections detected early in a given UK population. PATIENTS AND METHODS A Microsoft Excel decision model was designed to generate a set of outcomes for a defined population. Survival was modeled on the Collaboration of Observational HIV Epidemiological Research Europe (COHERE) stud...

BACKGROUND The Breathmobile, a specialty-based mobile asthma clinic, provides free care to underserved children. The cost of symptom-free day (SFD) improvement in this population has not been previously reported. OBJECTIVE To examine the clinical impact and cost-effectiveness of the Baltimore Breathmobile. METHODS Existing computerized data were analyzed for Breathmobile patient visits betw...

Supply costs account for more than one-third of the average operating budget and constitute the second largest expenditure in hospitals. As hospitals have sought to reduce these costs, radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology has emerged as a solution. This study reviews existing literature to gauge the recent and potential impact and direction of the implementation of RFID in the hospi...

the objective of this research is to identify the characteristics of cost accounting systems (cas) in manufacturing companies located in the state of fars. the research is designed to answer the following questions: 1- what kind of management information systems (mis) are in - use. 2-what information are provided by these systems. 3-how - offen financial information. are issues. 4- what groups ...

Background: In 2012, Switzerland changed from retrospective to prospective hospital payment based on diagnosis related groups (DRGs), following the example of the United States, Australia, and Germany. As in these countries, the objective of this transition was to motivate hospitals to improve efficiency by making them bear financial risk to some extent.Objective:...

This study examines the effect of regulatory policy on efficiency under prudential framework among banks listed in the Iranian Securities and Exchange Organization over the period 2003 to 2015. Arellano-Bond estimation method has been patronized to investigate the effect of regulatory policies on efficiency. Results indicate that regulatory policy indicator indexing reserve requirement on inves...