Cost estimation is important in assessing a health system’s performance. However, most of the costing system that presently exists presumes that all patients consume exactly the same amount of resources, and little attention is paid to costs at the patient level. Thailand has used Thai DRG for the prospective payment of inpatient care with a closed end, but there is a growing need to have patie...

conclusions the frequency of nis in this hospital was lower in comparison with other worldwide studies. however, low incidence of health care-associated infections in our study may be due to under diagnosis and underreporting of such infections by health care staff. results the incidence of nis was low (i.e. < 2%). among 16936 admitted patients in this hospital, 174 patients (79 males and 95 fe...

Title XVIII of the Social Security Act established the Medicare program to provide health insurance benefits for the aged and disabled. Title XVIII is divided into two sections: Part A, Hospital Insurance (HI) and Part B, Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI). Part A pays for part of the cost of inpatient hospital care and related health care services provided by skilled nursing facilities and ...

The hospital, which I have the pleasure and privilege to serve in conjunction with SubAssistant Surgeon Amrita Lall Chanda, Medical Officer-in-Charge, has had what would appear to be a very unique experience. Between the 19th September, 1925, and 8th October, 1925, there were 24 admissions to hospital for cholera, all of whom recovered. I do not wish to imply by this that some new method of tre...

The Council collects over 3.8 million inpatient hospital discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure records each year from hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in Pennsylvania. This data, which includes hospital charge and treatment information as well as other financial data, is collected on a quarterly basis and is then verified by PHC4 staff. The Council also collects dat...

without perceiving their pungency. Senior Hospital Assistant Patel in charge of the Hospital,'' on the appearance of the above grave symptoms, injected hypodermically 15 minims of the liquor strychnise B. P. 12-30 P.M.?Toxic symptoms increased. Injection, hypodermically repeated, minim 15. 1-30 p.m.?Symptoms increased markedly with, in addition, difficulty of swallowing. Injection repeated, min...

We wish to thank Dr. M. J. Pleydell, County Medical Officer, and Miss E. Richards, County Nursing Officer for Oxfordshire, for their help and encouragement with the project. We also wish to thank Dr. F. Hampson, director of pathology, and Dr. D. Robertson Smith, consultant haematologist, Royal Berkshire Hospital, for allowing the practice nurses to attend their department; also the matron and s...

was admitted to the district hospital, Mavelikarae in September, 1924, when I was in charge of that hospital. History.?The patient had had a swelling on his head from birth, which grew bigger in course of time until it reached its present size when it became slightly painful,?vide photograph. Condition on admission.?There is a tumour about the size of a coconut without its fibrous coat, situate...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction rate of hospital managerial/clinical teams (hmcts) including principles (chief executives), managers, supervisor pharmacists and head nurses from services presented by private sectors directing 10 pharmacy departments in hospitals affiliated to shahid beheshti university of medical sciences.this study is an observational and descriptive stu...

BACKGROUND The Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model (CDM) has been implemented on various claims and electronic health record (EHR) databases, but has not been applied to a hospital transactional database. This study addresses the implementation of the OMOP CDM on the U.S. Premier Hospital database. METHODS We designed and implemented an extract, transform, load...