section of about 32,000 patients for an ED located in the Southwestern United States. We construct a measure of a patient’s … overcrowding tends to generate a negative outcome for all patients. We also find that this negative outcome is larger for those on …

Background Forecasting patient arrivals to hospital emergency departments is critical to dealing with surges and to … efcient planning, management and functioning of hospital emerency departments. Objective We explore whether past mean values …

the OECD. How do the hospital admission patterns that generate waiting lists affect different patients? What are the … how constrained the hospital is, explains differences in scale. Changes in benefits and costs structures of healthcare …Excessive waiting times for elective surgery have been a long-standing concern in many national healthcare systems in …

innovative policies, which improve operational efciency and achieve the best value for money for patients. This study aims to … develop a Decision Support Tool (DST) that assesses the impact of implementing new DVT patients’ management and care policies … was validated and verifed by various stakeholders and two policies, namely shifting more patients to community services …

Objective: To evaluate the impact of different dissemination channels on the awareness and usage of hospital …: Overall, 68% of respondents recalled hospital performance reports and 21% used them for referral decisions. Physicians from … < .001) but not more likely to be influenced when referring patients into hospitals (OR 1.73; 95% CI 0.72–4.12, p > .05). On …

classification system with well-defined constructs for patients’ and persons’ self-reports on health and healthcare. A literature …With the shift towards patient-centered healthcare, patient- and person-reports of health-related factors, including … outcomes, are seen as important determinants for evaluating and improving healthcare. However, a comprehensive, systematic …

population. We adopted a national healthcare perspective to estimate the cost of cancer for hospital episodes, ED presentations … describe the development of CancerCostMod, and to present the healthcare expenditure and patient co-payments for the first 12 …, primary healthcare, and prescription pharmaceuticals. We also adopted an individual perspective, to estimate the primary …

, as well as the various needs, preferences and resources of patients and their families. Methods: Health systems financed …, finally, actual forecasts of the number of potential future patients. Results: GST can be used to make predictions about the … GM (1,1) in predicting the number of patients of palliative care facilities in Poland. The analysis covers the data from …

future expenditure for care of chronically ill patients is an ever-present challenge for the health care system. New … account to estimate the total occurring costs. It enables the treatment of patients by a physician, a specialist or a clinical … at intensive care units. To rate the severity of symptoms patients can be classified using NYHA groups. To outline some …

Background: Assessing the impact of cost sharing on healthcare utilization is a critical issue in health economics and … investigates the effects of reducing cost sharing for outpatient services on hospital admissions by exploring a subsidy policy for … hospital admissions, although this effect varies by region. The subsidy reduces the number of overall admissions in low …