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the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

of outcomes of care - Source of unnecessary - and high - costs - Fragmented state to state - Based on varied data * The problem ha...

Hospital readmissions of patients is upsetting to patients and families, especially when that readmission occurs within 30 days of...

The incidence of heart failure is so great, it has become a public health concern. The readmission rates are very high for heart f...

More than 25 percent of patients with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and half are readmi...

A study by the Joint Commission revealed that communication failures were implicated at the root of over 70 percent of sentinel ev...

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...

Computerized databases have been developed with a specific purpose in mind, usually there will be a schema or a description of the...

and is a major referral and treatment center in the northern New Jersey metropolitan area (2001). Affiliated with the complex i...

the past has been a repository of past events, a record of organizational history in several areas. "But these days we expect mor...

real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...

by no means efficient. Ahn and Kim (2002) write that the upper layers of an OO database management system "should be adapted to t...

planning evaluation to those patients, conducted or overseen by a registered nurse, social worker or other appropriately qualified...

insurance, private hospitals can be expected to fare better. Though Shands is not a totally public hospital, it is the teaching h...

to be used depending on hoe many of the variables are dependent and the type of dependence, for example, where only one or more v...

$4,722,847 (anticipated revenue) and then dividing that by 25 (number of beds) x $119,655 (the cost for each additional bed added)...

type. The database can be accessed with the use of standard query language (SQL), and tables may be combined or cross referenced w...

This 30 page paper examines different methods of data evaluation that researchers have available to them. The writer considers tri...

allows justification for greater technological expenditures as well, because the patient base is not limited only to the immediate...

included adjustment in order to show the cash flow rather than the picture that profit and loss or income statement gives. For exa...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

processes and also shows their practicality in hypothetical real-life situations. The following examination looks at Goldratts t...

far between. Now, however, with the ubiquity of technology constantly increasing, the vast majority of organizations are employing...

system." As angioplasty has progressed in its technological characteristics and has been subject to spiraling costs for several y...

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

A scenario of disaster plan at a hospital is used as the basis for this essay. The scenario is described briefly, including commen...

were well more than were ill), and wellness is a desirable state. Thats really very little to go on, so lets see what others say ...

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

and Adnan Kisa (2006, July-September). Wasteful use of financial resources in public hospitals in Turkey: a trend analysis. The...

aware of and minimize risk associated with the project (Alexandrou, 2010). * Track and develop reports regarding team hours and ex...