The purpose of this article is to examine the concept of case management acuity in the private sector and health insurance industry. In the era of the Affordable Care Act, case management practices across many sectors in the health care system are in a state of flux. In order to understand the context of current practices, a brief review of the various dimensions and definitions related to case...

background: the present study aimed to determine attitudes and effective factors in the acceptance of smart phones by physicians of the largest university of medical sciences in the south of iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed using structural equation modelling (sem) in 2014. study participants included 200 physicians working in the hospitals of shiraz university of medical...

OBJECTIVE The role of process modelling has been widely recognized for effective quality improvement. However, application in health care is somewhat limited since the health care community lacks knowledge about a broad range of methods and their applicability to health care. Therefore, the objectives of this paper are to present a summary description of a limited number of distinct modelling m...

BACKGROUND The objective of the review was to evaluate the extent, quality and value of computer simulation modelling in population health and health care delivery. METHODS A narrative systematic review was carried out of world literature from 1980 to 1999, searching Medline, INSPEC, Embase, HealthSTAR, Science Citation Index, CINAHL, MathSci, INFORMS Online and SIGLE databases, and researche...

This paper aims to describe a modelling tool that gives a framework for the estimation of future bed demand for hospital services. It also outlines some issues regarding the application of the model. A quantitative mathematical model was constructed that was based on two years of seasonally adjusted inpatient data. To calculate the number of beds required five years into the future, ten factors...

in Dutch De zorguitgaven in de industriële landen zijn de afgelopen veertig jaar sterk gegroeid. Deze sterke groei vormt een bedreiging voor de houdbaarheid van de publieke budgetten en veroorzaakt een toenemende belangstelling voor de determinanten van de zorguitgaven. Dit paper geeft ten eerste een up-to-date overzicht van de bestaande literatuur over zorguitgaven. Daarnaast beoogt dit paper ...

Background Ghana is implementing activities towards universal health coverage (UHC) as well as the attainment of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the health sector by the year 2030. Aside lack of empirical forecast of the required healthcare facilities to achieve these mandates, health workforce deficits ar...