The hospital system is one of the most critical systems in city and plays an irreplaceable role whole process earthquake disasters. This paper presents a method that considers medical supply–demand relationship to quantify functionality functional loss under conditions, which different from current quantitative only internal factors system. provides “finest granularity” for division evaluation ...

In January 2014, the Affordable Care Act extended access to health insurance coverage to an estimated 30 million previously uninsured people. This issue brief provides state-level estimates of the increased demand for physician and hospital services that is expected to result from expanded access and assesses the sufficiency of the existing supply of providers to accommodate the anticipated inc...

This paper examines the effects of variation in unexpected demand on patient outcomes in acute care German hospitals. Naturally, an unexpected surge in demand may negatively affect the quality of care and thus patient outcomes, such as in-hospital mortality. We estimate models explaining patient outcomes depending on demand, unobservable patient selection and seasonal factors, as well as patien...

Over the last 20 years, acute-care hospitals in most OECD countries have built up costly overcapacities. From the perspective of economic policy, it is desirable to know how hospitals of different ownership forms respond to changes in demand and are probably best suited to deal with existing overcapacities. This article examines ownership-specific differences in the responsiveness to changes in...

BACKGROUND Offering a drug-drug interaction (DDI) checker on-demand instead of computer-triggered alerts is a strategy to avoid alert fatigue. OBJECTIVE The purpose was to determine the use of such an on-demand tool, implemented in the clinical information system for inpatients. METHODS The study was conducted at the University Hospital Zurich, an 850-bed teaching hospital. The hospital-wid...