The New South Wales Department of Health (NSW Health) wishes to make appropriate use of casemix data as inputs to the determination of funding levels for small rural hospitals. However, other factors such as hospital size and degree of isolation might need to be taken into account. The study reported here involved correlation of actual expenditures with those predicted by use of a casemix model...

This exploratory study assessed the self-management learning needs, experiences, and perspectives of COPD patients treated at a Certified Federal Rural Health Clinic to inform the development of a COPD self-management DVD. A purposive, homogeneous sample of COPD patients participated in focus group interviews. Data from these interviews were referenced to edit a library of Rvision COPD self-man...

UNLABELLED Background Heart failure is one of the most prevalent chronic conditions in adults, leading to prolonged morbidity, repeated hospitalizations, and placing tremendous economic burden on the healthcare system. Heart failure patients discharged from rural hospitals, or primarily critical access hospitals, have higher 30-day readmission and mortality rates compared to patients discharged...

Operation risk is the primary risk to rural power company, and it is also an important part of security risk management. The paper establishes a model to assessed risks of standard operation in rural power network, based on Job Risk Analysis (LEC). The example and application of the model in rural power network security risk management system shows that it can realize the real-time assessment o...

BACKGROUND Inconsistencies in rural and urban health care exist; however, little has been done to evaluate the potential differences in asthma management. OBJECTIVE To compare asthma management in rural versus urban primary care physician practices. METHODS Forty-two of 136 consenting primary care physicians were randomly selected for chart review. The charts of 3072 patients diagnosed with...

introduction dehyary (rural administration unit) as an ngo for its mission need to make assessment and ensure the quality and quantity of process applications and management services. these units are consequently obliged to the social accountability and consent of the villagers. to achieve optimum satisfaction of villagers, as their effective reaction, will affect performance of dehyary units t...

introduction according to world population growth that is over 6 billion people, drinking water supply in cities and villages is one of the concerns of politicians and residents, so the 21st century is named century of water stress or hydrological stress. one of goals of world water organization will be supply the drinking water for all until 2025. it is worth mentioning that highest population...