2131. Successful Implementation of BCID Across Large Healthcare System Using a Central Testing Laboratory and Multidisciplinary Pharmacy Team Monica Schmidt, MPH, PhD; Lisa E. Davidson, MD; Kelly Goodson, PharmD; Gerald A. Capraro, PhD and Lewis McCurdy, MD; Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte, North Carolina, Division of Infectious Diseases, Caro...

2131. Successful Implementation of BCID Across Large Healthcare System Using a Central Testing Laboratory and Multidisciplinary Pharmacy Team Monica Schmidt, MPH, PhD; Lisa E. Davidson, MD; Kelly Goodson, PharmD; Gerald A. Capraro, PhD and Lewis McCurdy, MD; Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte, North Carolina, Division of Infectious Diseases, Caro...

2131. Successful Implementation of BCID Across Large Healthcare System Using a Central Testing Laboratory and Multidisciplinary Pharmacy Team Monica Schmidt, MPH, PhD; Lisa E. Davidson, MD; Kelly Goodson, PharmD; Gerald A. Capraro, PhD and Lewis McCurdy, MD; Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte, North Carolina, Division of Infectious Diseases, Caro...

For more than three decades healthcare decentralization has been promoted in developing countries as a way of improving the financing and delivery of public healthcare. Decision autonomy under healthcare decentralization would determine the role and scope of responsibility of local authorities. Jalal Mohammed, Nicola North, and Toni Ashton analyze decision autonomy within decentralized services...

2131. Successful Implementation of BCID Across Large Healthcare System Using a Central Testing Laboratory and Multidisciplinary Pharmacy Team Monica Schmidt, MPH, PhD; Lisa E. Davidson, MD; Kelly Goodson, PharmD; Gerald A. Capraro, PhD and Lewis McCurdy, MD; Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte, North Carolina, Division of Infectious Diseases, Caro...

1Stanford University Center of Excellence for Sleep Disorders, Stanford, CA; 2VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Sepulveda, CA; 3Mayo Sleep Disorders Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 4UCLA/Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Sepulveda, CA; 5Greenwood Dental Associates, Englewood, CO; 6Middle Tennessee ENT, Murfreesboro, TN; 7Stanford Univ...

Background: A dramatic increase in healthcare expenditures is a major health policy concern worldwide. Understanding factors that underlie the growth in healthcare expenditures is essential to assist decision-makers in finding best policies to manage healthcare costs. We aimed to examine the determinants of healthcare spending in Iran over the periods of 1978-2011. Methods: A time series ana...