facilitate a high-level strategic assessment of hospital activity within a region. In providing that assessment, a variety of … organise hospital resources and activity better, to treat more patients. The first model that we propose identifies a maximal …

Background: Economic research on hospital palliative care faces major challenges. Observational studies using routine … (N = 2674) based on diagnosis of a terminal illness and high risk of hospital mortality. We modelled our treatment …

care resource use (HCRU) and costs in patients admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 and aimed to estimate the one … 2020 in a tertiary hospital (n=1056) in Istanbul. Patient demographics, clinical and treatment characteristics at admission … include LOS, hospital costs, and univariate and generalized linear models to investigate influencing factors. The data were …

increasingly expensive neonatal care. Therefore, evaluating the impact of hospital intensity around birth on long-term health …

obesity on annual inpatient healthcare costs in the UK using linked data from the UK Biobank and Hospital Episode Statistics …

from 42,139 patients at a central Taiwan medical center, using generalized estimating equations (GEE) to evaluate hospital … longer ED stays led to increased hospital stays: patients with 24-48 h in the ED had an additional 2.27 days (P < 0.001), and ….225 (P < 0.001). Conclusion Prolonged ED stays are associated with longer hospital stays, higher mortality risks, and lower …

We investigate the factors that influence the variance in hospital charges and inpatient care for kidney transplant … cases in the US. Using the AHRQ's (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) HCUP's (Hospital Cost and Utilization Project …) NIS (National Inpatient Sample) database, we find that variance in hospital charges and inpatient care is driven by …

derived from the hospital's own internal contracting process which generates retention costs of medical personnel and costs of … since the initial cost was considered greater than treating the patient outside hospital facilities. These variables should …