background: there are challenges ahead of short-term hospitalization of low-risk patients hospitalized only for monitoring of severe disease who may die soon after admission. the purpose of this study was to suggest strategies for the management of icu stay lengths and to ensure optimal use of icu resources.   methods: the study was conducted retrospectively on 246 patients admitted to 9 genera...

abstract background: primary immunodeficiency diseases (pid) are heterogeneous group of inherited disorders mainly characterized by recurrent infections leading to several times hospital admissions. the economic impact of pid is a challenging issue; therefore, this study was designed to determine the medical costs of hospitalizations in this group of patients as an indicator of the direct cost ...

This paper looks into how an expert system can be used to solve rural problem as it relates to medical care. An expert system is a computer program that simulates the thought process of a human expert to solve complex decision problems in a specific domain. Rural medical care is a health care system found in the rural areas, whose operations are at its poorest state due to lack of sufficient me...

Acquisitions of medical practices by health care systems, particularly tax-exempt health care systems, appear to be on the rise currently. This is because health care systems throughout the country are continuing their strategic efforts to position themselves to be more competitive in the markets that they serve. Motivations for such acquisitive transactions vary from circumstance to circumstan...

a comparison of various health statistics among sweden, the united states of america, and united kingdom reveals that the u.s. is in an inferior situation. this is traced to those acute and communicable diseases which could very easily be prevented. however medical care services require money and this money due to the nature of health care system in the u.s. has to come from the patients. while...

with increasing technology in providing health care services and specialization, health care organization requires application of costing methods for calculating income and expenses to improve the health care services and compensate the costs. for this purpose, most hospitals in the developed countries, estimated system costs based on affiliated diagnostic related groups. according to this new ...