Introduction: Increasing pressure on available funds in health care section especially hospitals, enhances the need of analyzing different strategies in economic terms. One of the solutions for the optimal use of financial resources and potentials in hospitals and health care centers is using elements of the marketing mix. In this way we could make the best use of the resources...

Introduction Most developed countries use case-mix systems (APRDRG-type) to define the prospective budgets of their hospitals. However, these case-mix systems are based mainly on the main diagnosis and procedures and do not take into account the specificity of geriatric patients. In the present study, we use all geriatric tools (RAI, RUGs, RIM, etc.) to evaluate the needs of acute geriatric hos...

In this paper, we describe a method for designing flexible mix-product lines. The word "flexible" means product-mix flexibility. Various production plans are executed in the flexible mixed-product line. Therefore, we have to solve problems that have widely expanded search trees to design the flexible mixed-product line, but it's difficult to find optimal answers of large scale design problems. ...

OBJECTIVES Uncertainties exist about when and how best to adjust performance measures for case mix. Our aims are to quantify the impact of case-mix adjustment on practice-level scores in a national survey of patient experience, to identify why and when it may be useful to adjust for case mix, and to discuss unresolved policy issues regarding the use of case-mix adjustment in performance measure...

Two primary goals of a research field are (i) communicate and preserve knowledge, and (ii) build and maintain a professional community. A range of tools are at its disposal: books, journals, newsletters, lectures, exhibitions, person-to-person communication, magazine and newspaper articles, workshops, and conferences. Each field is marked by a distinct mix and weighting of these venues. To show...

In the present study, two different data-driven models, artificial neural network (ANN) and multiple linear regression (MLR) models, have been developed to predict the 28 days compressive strength of concrete. Seven different parameters namely 3/4 mm sand, 3/8 mm sand, cement content, gravel, maximums size of aggregate, fineness modulus, and water-cement ratio were considered as input variables...

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Designing mix-networks for low-latency applications that offer acceptable performance and provide good resistance against attacks without introducing too much overhead is very difficult. Good performance and small overheads are vital to attract users and to be able to support many of them, because with only a few users, there is no anonymity at all. In this paper, we analyze how well different ...