In contrast to outpatient dialysis facilities in the United States, which are required by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) under Conditions Coverage ESRD Facilities have a qualified medical director who oversees facility quality and operations,1-3 inpatient programs no such requirement. Despite high level of complexity therapies, currently there is CMS or other governing body regu...

Reporting causes of death accurately is essential to public health and hospital-based programs; however, some U.S. studies have identified substantial inaccuracies in cause of death reporting. Using CDC's national inpatient hospital death rates as a benchmark, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) analyzed inpatient death rates reported by hospitals with high inpatient de...

BACKGROUND There is a need to develop other casemix classifications, apart from DRG for sub-acute and non-acute inpatient care payment mechanism in Thailand. OBJECTIVE To develop a casemix classification for sub-acute and non-acute inpatient service. MATERIAL AND METHOD The study began with developing a classification system, analyzing cost, assigning payment weights, and ended with testing...

The future organisation of prison health care recommends that the NHS and the Prison Service work together to plan and provide health care services for prisoners. Whereas previously the Prison Service had this responsibility alone. The NHS will therefore have to take stock of the current level at which prison health care is demanded and provided. A key part of the information base for joint pla...

Background Increasing demand for limited healthcare resources raises questions about appropriate use of inpatient beds. In the first paediatric bed utilisation study at a regional university centre in Ireland, we conducted a cross-sectional study to audit the utilisation of inpatient beds at the Regional Paediatric Unit (RPU) in University Hospital Limerick (UHL), Limerick, Ireland and also exa...