ABSTRACT Objectives: to evaluate hospitalization costs of patients with and without Healthcare-Associated Infections an Intensive Care Unit. Methods: a retrospective case-control study. Data collection was retrieved from the medical records Unit medium-sized public hospital in Goiás-Brazil. For each case, two controls were selected. on socioeconomic, clinical, collected. To verify associations ...

AIM Academic research investigating health care costs in the Palestinian region is limited. Therefore, this study examines the costs of the cardiac catheterization unit of one of the largest hospitals in Palestine. We focus on costs of a cardiac catheterization unit and the increasing number of deaths over the past decade in the region due to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). METHODS We employ ...

Annually, 200 ha of Agh Ghala rangelands in Golestan, Iran are under Alkaligrass Puccinella distans's cultivation but the failure in the identification of appropriate sites for seed sowing may result in high costs of cultivation. The current study aims to reduce such costs through the examination of apt sites to grow P. distans in northern rangelands of Agh Ghala Golestan, Iran. Because of the ...