Data: Primary data source for this analysis is the National Inpatient Sample (NIS)from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which provides discharge-level information for a nationally representative sample of community hospitals...
serves as the data source platform of quality control indexes for oncology specialty in the Operational Manual for Performance Appraisal of National Tertiary Public Hospitals (2024), and relevant data will also be utilized as important data source for subsequent evaluation of clinical specialty capacity ...
In addition to looking at process measures, onestudyof 4221 hospitals, using data from the mid-1990s, found that outcomes for patients with acute myocardial infarction were better in hospitals accredited by The Joint Commission than in nonaccredited hospitals. The differences were small, and there ...
2018, using the search terms “thyroid cancer” and “thyroid cancer treatment.” The first 50 videos that appeared on each search were reviewed and 52 videos were included
to heat buildings during the winter, and a cold temperature inversion which trapped the resulting smoke. 4,000 people were estimated to have died as a consequence ofLondon air pollutionduring the Great Smog.4Since then, the UK has worked to decrease its reliance on coal as an energy source....
The survey data were only from our hospital, so they could not represent the distribution defects in other hospitals. Moreover, our study only analyzed the first two causes of distribution defects. The causes of packaging material defects, sterilization quality defects and distribution error, also ...
Clinicians specify details regarding office visits (diagnosis, diagnostic test, cost, etc); hospitals specify admissions; pharmacies specify individual medications; and employers specify insurance plan particulars. The MEPS also includes 2 additional mail-back surveys: the adult self-administered ...
Disadvantaged populations covered through the Medicaid program might receive care from physicians or hospitals of generally lower quality. Presumably, these physicians would be included in both Medicaid-only plans and those that serve the Medicaid and commercial population, since performance is similar ...
To prevent future similar tragedies, the inquiry recommended that hospitals take greater heed of the insights of staff, patients and carers, through “greater attention [ … ] to the narrative contained in, for instance, complaints data, as well as to the numbers” (Mid Staffordshire NHS ...
When dealing with the needs of social and healthcare assistance of elderly people, some studies have conceptualised accessibility of healthcare services by developing an integrated geospatial approach to model medical care use for the elderly supported by transport features, hospitals and clinic ...