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background: interprofessional teamwork is considered as the key to improve the quality of patient management in critical settings such as trauma emergency departments, but it is not fully conceptualized in these areas to guide practice. the aim of this article is to explore interprofessional teamwork and its improvement strategies in trauma emergency departments. materials and methods: particip...
A surge in hospital consolidation is fueling formation of ever larger multi-hospital systems throughout the United States. This article examines hospital prices in California over time with a focus on hospitals in the largest multi-hospital systems. Our data show that hospital prices in California grew substantially (+76% per hospital admission) across all hospitals and all services between 200...
Health tourism can be generally divided into medical, health spa and wellness tourism. Health spa tourism services are provided in special hospitals for medical rehabilitation and health resorts, and include under medical supervision controlled use of natural healing factors and physical therapy in order to improve and preserve health. There are 13 special hospitals for medical rehabilitation a...
OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to examine the relative contribution of functional impairment and cognitive deficits on risk of hospitalization and costs. METHODS A prospective cohort of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older who participated in the Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project (WHICAP) were followed approximately every 18 months for over 10 years (1805 never diagnos...
In this policy brief, we estimate and document the national magnitude of charges associated with hospitalizations due to ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) in rural hospitals. The brief also reports this type of charge by hospital size. This research will inform policy makers about the magnitude of rural preventable hospitalizations and the associated potential savings in hospital res...
This article employs a quasi-experimental, pre/post comparison group design to determine whether rural hospital closures (n = 11) have had a detrimental impact on access to inpatient and outpatient care for the Medicare population. Closure areas experienced a significant decrease in medical admissions, although admission rates remained higher than in comparison areas. Physician services were no...
INTRODUCTION People who are homeless often experience poor hospital discharge arrangements, reflecting ongoing care and housing needs. Specialist integrated homeless health and care provision (SIHHC) schemes have been developed and implemented to facilitate the safe and timely discharge of homeless patients from hospital. Our study aims to investigate the health outcomes of patients who were ho...
Clean intermittent self-catheterization (CISC) has been used successfully for many years to promote socially acceptable and functional continence practice. The impact on health services, quality of life, and associated costs has also been documented. The use of CISC as a routine technique has been widely implemented in the Hunter Area Health Service, NSW, Australia. The positive outcomes result...
The prediction has come true. Patients with cancer are being treated as outpatients, and oncology admissions to hospitals have decreased significantly. Rather than dedicated oncology units, hospitals are combining medical-surgical units with oncology units; this trend seems particularly true in communitybased hospitals (Satryan, 2001). With these changes in unit demographics, how will dedicated...
BACKGROUND Personality disorders affect a substantial proportion of the population. It is unclear, however, whether the burden of personality disorders on modern mental health services has been increasing. To fill this gap, we analyzed trends in admissions for personality disorders in Italy from 1988 to 1998. METHODS We used the yearly data from the Italian Central Institute of Statistics to ...
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