Length of stay should be the criterion for signaling intervals when patients are (re)reviewed to determine the currently needed level of care. Explicit criteria for determining when a patient is receiving a hospital level of care should be developed. Explicit criteria will increase objectivity, ...
In sensitivity analysis, we calculated estimates using a model with patient-level covariates (age, sex, race/ethnicity, and the Elixhauser Comorbidity Index) only. Finally, for patients hospitalized in the first 6 months of 2006, we calculated all cost of care generated by the index admission ...
Children's Asthma Care measure inclusion criteria are discharge to home, including patients who had spent time in an intensive care unit; length of stay not greater than 120 days; and no enrollment in a clinical trial.13 Data quality is monitored and ensured by the Joint Commission through ...
We aligned variables in the database with the ACOG criteria for each maternal level of care, then built models that used the variables to measure the maternal level of care. In each iteration, the distribution of hospitals was compared to the distribution in the CDC Levels of Care Assessment ...
JCI is a subsidiary body of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) for the certification of medical institutions outside the United States. The JCI criteria is a worldwide recognized, representing the highest level of hospital services and hospital management, and ...
1)The Department follows the mission and concept of "valuing medical care quality, focusing on demands of the patient and continuously promoting disciplinary development". The Department is the first reporter of the biliary ascariasis disease in the world, also the formulator of the criteria of sev...
On returning to work after the outbreak of COVID-19, 10.8% respondents including medical staff met the diagnosis criteria of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) [13]. Hence, for healthcare sectors, in addition to disease interventions, methods to deal with the psychological barriers of ...
The AKI-COV score had an AUC-ROC of 0.823 (95% CI 0.761–0.885) in the validation cohort. The use of the AKI-COV score may assist healthcare workers in identifying hospitalized COVID-19 patients with AKI that may require more intensive monitoring and can be used for resource allocation....
Meaning Hospital-at-home care bundled with a 30-day episode of postacute transitional care may be a safe and effective alternative to inpatient care for some patients. Abstract Importance Hospital-at-home (HaH) care provides acute hospital-level care in a patient’s home as a substitute for ...
Flowchart of Sample Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria by Service eFigure 2. Total Reimbursement for Service Packages Ranked by the Portion of Reimbursement Billed by the Hospital for Selected Common Shoppable Health Care Services 1. US Government Accountability Office. Health care price transparency: meani...