Effects of Specialty Hospitals on the Financial Performance of General Hospitals, 1997–2004 by John E. Schneider, Robert L. Ohsfeldt, Michael A. Morrisey, Pengxiang Li, Thomas R. Miller, Bennet A. Zelner

“…This paper focuses on one important economic question: does the presence of specialty hospitals in a market affect general hospitals' financial performance? …”
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Hospital Dermatology: analysis of dermatological consultations in a tertiary teaching hospital by Iago Gonçalves Ferreira, Camila Saraiva Almeida, Lucas Abascal Bulcão, Diego Gonçalves Ferreira, Magda Blessmann Weber, Renan Rangel Bonamigo

“…Abstract Background In hospital settings, dermatology can offer substantial clinical support for the diagnosis and management of skin conditions, reducing morbidity and mortality. …”
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Pediatric hospitalization due to COVID-19: experience in a regional hospital by Irene Baquedano-Lobera, Paula Lalaguna-Mallada, Paula Barberá-Pérez

Subjects: “…SARS-CoV-2. Pediatrics. Hospitalization.…”
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Myocardial revascularization surgery: hospitalization characteristics and changes related to hospitalization time by Cintia Koerich, Gabriela Marcellino de Melo Lanzoni, Giovana Dorneles Callegaro Higashi, Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann, Betina Hörner Schlindwein Meirelles, Maria Aparecida Baggio

“…The study objective was to identify the hospitalization characteristics and changes presented by individuals submitted to Myocardial Revascularization Surgery and its association with hospitalization time for the surgery. …”
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Informal payments in public hospitals in Malawi: the case of Kamuzu Central Hospital by Annette Mphande-Namangale, Isabel Kazanga-Chiumia

“…This research aimed to investigate informal payments for health care services at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), a public referral hospital in Malawi. …”
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Medical clowns improve sleep and shorten hospitalization duration in hospitalized children by Maya Shimshi-Barash, Ido Orlin, Tali Jacob, Gali Kushnir, Lara Rawashdeh, Etay Rothem Nachmias, Noam Meiri, Giora Pillar

“…Hospitalized children are more exposed to sleep disorders and sleep deprivation due to the hospitalized environment, anxiety, and illness. …”
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Violation of the rights of the companion during hospitalization for childbirth in public maternity hospitals by Lihsieh Marrero, Odaléa Maria Brüggemann, Roberta Costa, Carolina Frescura Junges, Sondre Schneck

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Linking Hospital and Tax data to support research on the economic impacts of hospitalization by Claudia Sanmartin, Alexander Reicker, Allan Garland, Theodore Iwashyna, Randy Fransoo, Damon Scales, Hannah Wunsch, Evelyn Forget, Hanqing Qiu

“…ABSTRACT Objectives This project links data on acute inpatient hospitalizations from the Canadian Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) with data on income and employment from various taxation- and employment-based administrative files. …”
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Hospital-level variation in hospitalization costs for spinal fusion in the United States by Joanna Curry, Nam Yong Cho, Shannon Nesbit, Shineui Kim, Konmal Ali, Varun Gudapati, Richard Everson, Peyman Benharash

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Is the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program Associated with Reduced Hospital Readmissions? by Beauvais B, Whitaker Z, Kim F, Anderson B

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Linezolid for the treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia in a Chinese tertiary hospital by Lesher BA, Liu Z, Chen Y, Gao X

“…Beth A Lesher,1 Zhengyin Liu,2 Yixi Chen,3 Xin Gao11Pharmerit International, Bethesda, MD, USA; 2Department of Infectious Disease, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 3Pfizer Investment Co, Ltd, Beijing, People’s Republic of ChinaWe read with interest the study published by Song et al describing their retrospective analysis of the clinical response and hospital costs associated with the empiric use of vancomycin or linezolid therapy in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) in the People’s Republic of China.1 Results from matched comparisons showed similar clinical response (30.0% vs 31.7%; P=0.847) and treatment failure rates (55.0% vs 45.0%; P=0.289) but a significantly lower in-hospital mortality rate (3.3 vs 18.3%; P=0.013) for vancomycin-treated patients compared to linezolid-treated patients. …”
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The Impact of Setting the Standards of Health Promoting Hospitals on Hospital Indicators in Iran. by Mohammad Amiri, Ahmad Khosravi, Leila Riyahi, Shima Naderi

“…Hospitals play a critical role in the health promotion of the society. …”
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The Competency Movement in Public Hospitals: Analysing the Competencies of Hospital Executive Managers by Mehtap Çakmak Barsbay, Mustafa Kemal Öktem

“…<p>Our primary aim was to provide a quantitative snapshot relying on a self-assessment tool developed for the local healthcare environment and formal tasks for top-level executive hospital managers of public healthcare organizations. …”
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Effect of Service Quality on Hospital Image at Baiturrahmah Dental and Oral Hospital by Dessy Angraini, Resa Ferdina

“…Hospitals as one of the services in the marketing world face a very tight competition dynamics, this requires the hospital management to improve itself and make efficiency, so the hospital is required to provide optimum quality for the performance given to the patient because the patient will provide subjective assessment or forming a direct perception of the image of the company or service provider concerned. …”
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Integrated Management Model for Pre-hospital and Hospital Emergency Rooms in Iran by Ali Jamal Mohammadi, Seyed Jamaledin Tabibi, Leila Riahi, Mahmoud Mahmoudi MajdabadiFarahani

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Production function for modeling hospital activities. The case of Polish county hospitals by Agata Sielska, Ewelina Nojszewska

“…The economically effective operation of county hospitals in Poland is very difficult due to all their determinants. …”
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Production function for modeling hospital activities. The case of Polish county hospitals. by Agata Sielska, Ewelina Nojszewska

“…The economically effective operation of county hospitals in Poland is very difficult due to all their determinants. …”
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Hospital pharmacy services in teaching hospitals in Nepal: Challenges and the way forward by P Ravi Shankar, Subish Palaian, Harish S Thapa, Mukhtar Ansari, Bishnu Regmi

Subjects: “…Hospital pharmacy…”
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Association of annual hospital septic shock case volume and hospital mortality by Yan Chen, Xu-dong Ma, Xiao-hui Kang, Si-fa Gao, Jin-min Peng, Shan Li, Da-wei Liu, Xiang Zhou, Li Weng, Bin Du, China National Critical Care Quality Control Center Group

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Particulate Matter in a Hospital Environment: as Potential Reservoir for Hospital Strains by E. A. Chezganova, O. S. Efimova, S. A. Sozinov, A. R. Efimova, V. M. Sakharova, A. G. Kutikhin, M. V. Osnova, Z. R. Ismagilov, E. B. Brusina

“…For decades, many aspects of aerosol transmission of hospital pathogens have been and remain the subject of scientific debate. …”
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