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There are estimates that up to 30% of hospital costs are due to inefficiently coordinated hospital processes. As a … abandoned, because the normally constructed total models of hospital processes could hardly cope with the rapid technological … costs from micro-data up to the modular level. Thus a qualitative as well as quantitative discussion of hospital business …
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size, location, and utilization of hospital services. To assess the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery in DOH …The paper attempts to provide an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines with particular emphasis on … hospitals being managed by the DOH. The paper begins with an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines, describing the …
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structures of private hospitals sector with regard to geographical distribution, services, financing, human resource, and other …
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There is a growing emphasis on the role of trade in health services (telehealth, health tourism and retirement …, barriers, and risks for the Philippines in participating in global trade in health services. It examines the country … waiting lines in hospital facilities; the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of the United States; and the …
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For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement,...
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A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally greater when the deviation represents a loss than when the...
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hospital services. Demand- and supply-side factors were both found to be statistically significant in explaining the ratio of …The public/private mix in Irish health care is nowhere more evident than in the acute hospital system where both public … the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry Scheme, this study investigates this public/private mix and its impact on utilisation of …
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planning process in advance of those actions. The thesis presents a multiagent simulation tool, which describes surgical … workforce planning based on a model process from a particular German hospital. It combines both key performance indicators and … savings in planning cost by one order of magnitude, though, the applicability of direct results is limited. The simulation …
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Whereas employee participation is generally conceived to facilitate implementation of organizational change, only limited research has investigated whether it may reduce the negative effects of downsizing. The present study compares two Swedish hospitals that implemented downsizing in different...
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Substitution policies are strategies sometimes chosen in Sub-Saharan Africa for curtailing the shortage of health professionals especially caused by the outflow of medical personnel. The aim of our contribution is to propose a way to assess the merits and drawbacks of substitution policies by...
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