Nottinghamshire family health services authority serves a population of around a million people and so far eight of the 52 eligible practices have become budget holders. A further eight practices have joined the scheme this April, bringing the percentage of people in budget holding practices to 17% of the Nottinghamshire population. The Calverton practice was one of the first budget holding pra...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the impact of state budget cuts on uncompensated care at general acute care hospital organizations. This study capitalized on the variations in the states of Texas and California to form a natural experiment testing the joint impact of budget cut status on uncompensated care costs, as well as specific charity care costs and bad debt expenses from indigent patients....

This issue brief focuses on the impact of recent budget shortfalls that many states are experiencing after several years of strong revenue growth. It describes the structure and sources of state revenues and spending and the causes of the recent shortfall. It also summarizes the fiscal trends and federal policies that could result in significant budget shortfalls in the future. Speakers at the ...

Background The incidence of azole-resistant Candida infections is increasing. Consequently, guidelines for treating systemic Candida infection (SCI) recommend a "de-escalation" strategy: initial broad-spectrum antifungal agents (e.g., echinocandins), followed by switching to fluconazole if isolates are fluconazole sensitive, rather than "escalation" with initial fluconazole treatment and then s...

Given a collection of accepted risks with corresponding impacts and probabilities over the life of a project (or a relevant portion), a method to estimate the total potential impact at a given certainty is presented. Project sponsors and managers can decide their risk tolerance and set aside corresponding contingency funds. This analytic method uses a binomial distribution with a probability eq...

In this paper, the sustainability of public debt is interpreted as the result of the interaction of fiscal policy with the economic environment, and not as a statistical concept as in most of the recent literature. If debt must not explode over time, policy makers have to respond to the changing conditions in the macroeconomic environment. This paper defines the conditions which will ensure com...

This bulletin is based on research conducted by Professor Gavin Wood and Dr Melek Cigdem at the AHURI Research Centre—RMIT University, and Ms Deb Batterham and Professor Shelley Mallett at Hanover Welfare Services. The research examined, for the first time, the geography of homelessness in Australia and its relationship to potential structural drivers of homelessness (specifically housing and l...

N. Asaloș, Ovidius University, Faculty of Economics, Constanța, Romania; E. Hlaciuc, Stefan cel Mare University, Doctoral School of Economy, Suceava, Romania; I. Bostan, Stefan cel Mare University, Doctoral School of Economy, Suceava, Romania; T. Roman, Al. I. Cuza University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Iasi, Romania; D. Mateș, West University, Doctoral School of Economy,...

Introduction: Many cancer survivors suffer from a combination of diseaseand treatment-related morbidities and complaints after primary treatment. There is a growing evidence base for the effectiveness of mono-dimensional rehabilitation interventions; in practice, however, patients often participate in multidimensional programs. This study systematically reviews evidence regarding effectiveness ...

I present an overview of the potential impact on health care providers due to blanket federal spending cuts (the Sequester) triggered by the Budget Control Act of 2011, highlighting specific areas of impact to both academic and private practice physicians. The aim is to provide some clarity and context to the health care component of the Sequester and, consequently, defuse some of the hype and ...