BACKGROUND AND AIM: Perception of the need for oral healthcare plays a key role in creating motivation and demand for utilization of oral healthcare services. Furthermore, while the lack of resources, people with perceived needs to oral healthcare, due to the higher profit potential of services, will be on higher priority for services. The aim of this study was to undertake a systematic review ...

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations was founded in 1951 as a private, not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits hospitals and other healthcare organizations. In 1987, the JCAHO launched its Agenda for Change to create a more modern and sophisticated accreditation process to place primary emphasis on actual performance. Coincident with this new emphas...

Theory-based nursing practice positively influences many outcomes in healthcare organizations. As a response to limited human and economic resources, a college of nursing and a for-profit healthcare organization worked in partnership to develop a project that focused on developing and demonstrating the value of a dedicated education unit grounded in caring theory. The authors describe the devel...

We examine the adoption of patient care IT systems by US short-term acute care hospitals and the resulting impact these systems have in the productivity of hospitals. Of particular interest is the extent to which forprofit and non-profit hospitals obtain different results from the adoption of IT systems. We find that the marginal effect of IT on for-profit hospital productivity is to reduce the...

BACKGROUND Previous studies investigating factors associated with healthcare utilization by older Ghanaians lack distinction between public and private health services. The present study examined factors associated with public and private healthcare service use, and the resulting perceived health system responsiveness. OBJECTIVES To identify factors associated with public and private healthca...

The aim of this study was to describe the differences in the profile of elderly residents in non-profit and for-profit Long-Term Residential Institutions for the Elderly (ILPI). We visited 12 ILPIs in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. Six of them were non-profits housing 260 elderly, and six were for-profit institutions, housing 127 elderly. The unequal characteristics of the elderly in t...

Intense scrutiny of the American healthcare paradigm will alter the activities of patients, providers, and payors. Government reform and marketplace-driven managed care programs create uncertainty. Quality, access, and cost concerns also drive change. Quality is conformity to requirements, and specification of requirements creates policy debate. Variability in utilization creates an accountabil...

The Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada (HIROC) is a member owned expert provider of professional and general liability coverage and risk management support. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada (ISMP Canada) is an independent national not-for-profit agency established for the collection and analysis of medication error reports and the development of recommendations for the ...

The Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada (HIROC) is a member owned expert provider of professional and general liability coverage and risk management support. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada (ISMP Canada) is an independent national not-for-profit agency established for the collection and analysis of medication error reports and the development of recommendations for the ...

Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)-Section 6301: is a non-profit, tax exempt corporation established by the ACA to develop and provide comparative effectiveness information to assist patients, clinicians, purchasers, and policy makers in making more informed and effective healthcare decisions. The Institute will focus on clinical comparative effectiveness research, defined as ...