Case-mix
Paediatric case mix in a rural clinical school is relevant to future practice
... a case mix of paediatric patients relevant to future clin- ical practice, and how case mix compares to urban student ...rural case mix of logs were noteworthy, with similar order ...
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Case mix, outcome and activity for patients admitted to intensive care units requiring chronic renal dialysis: a secondary analysis of the ICNARC Case Mix Programme Database
... The aim of this study was to describe the case mix and out- come of adult admissions to ICU of patients with ESRF in the UK. To our knowledge four previous studies have reported on outcomes of patients with ...
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Case-mix adjusted hospital mortality is a poor proxy for preventable mortality: a modelling study
... Risk-adjustment schemes are used to monitor hospital performance, on the assumption that excess mortality not explained by case mix is largely attributable to suboptimal care. We have developed a model to ...
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Functional mapping of hospitals by diagnosis dominant case mix analysis
... diagnosis-dominant case-mix system, comprised of 591 higher order disease categories [see Additional file 1] and includes approximately 2,500 lower order categories, such as procedures, co-morbidities and ...
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Case mix and outcomes for admissions to UK adult, general critical care units with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a secondary analysis of the ICNARC Case Mix Programme Database
... Of 129,647 admissions to 128 adult, general critical care units in the CMPD, 3755 (2.9%) of admissions were identified as nonsurgical COPD patients. Table 1 describes measures of case mix for all patients ...
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Case mix adjusted hospital mortality is a poor proxy for preventable mortality : a modelling study
... Risk-adjustment schemes are used to monitor hospital performance, on the assumption that excess mortality not explained by case mix is largely attributable to suboptimal care. We have developed a model to ...
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Feasibility and validity of International Classification of Diseases based case mix indices
... the case mix instead of costs, even though it operates under the guise of a cost- based ...of case mix in reimbursement adjustment, yet fails to take into account real cost ...
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Case-mix methodology for the NHS outcomes framework GP Patient Survey Questionnaire Data
... When examining changes in HRQoL over time, there are many aspects of interest. One may want to concentrate on an aggregate, single summary statistic, or examine changes in the various aspect of HRQoL, or perhaps to ...
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HEMS inter-facility transfer: a case-mix analysis
... During the study period, there were 2194 HEMS missions including 982 IFT (44.8%). Three patients were excluded as they died before take-off; the final group included 979 patients (Fig. 1) (Table 1). Most missions ...
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Development of a case mix funding system for adults with combined vision and hearing loss
... Abbreviations ADLs: Activities of daily living; IADLs: Instrumental ADLs; CM: Case-mix; CMI: Case-mix index; CHESS: Changes in Health, End-stage disease and Signs and Symptoms; CV: Coeff[r] ...
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Case Mix Planning using The Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution and Robust Estimation: a Case Study
... This paper studied the problem of allocating OR time to surgical groups, considered as a surrogate for the CMPP. For this purpose an LP model is developed to find the optimum case mix of the patients. In ...
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Complexity of case mix in a regional allergy service
... the case mix of patients seen in specialist allergy clinics in the UK via an audit of referrals over 8 years to one regional ...plex mix of cases was referred including a large propor- tion of ...
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Case mix, outcome and length of stay for admissions to adult, general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre Case Mix Programme Database
... of case mix (risk) adjustment also varied considerably among the international studies, with only two studies reporting APACHE II hospital mortality probabilities ...
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Case mix, outcome and length of stay for admissions to adult, general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre Case Mix Programme Database
... of case mix (risk) adjustment also varied considerably among the international studies, with only two studies reporting APACHE II hospital mortality probabilities ...
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Case mix, outcome and activity for obstetric admissions to adult, general critical care units: a secondary analysis of the ICNARC Case Mix Programme Database
... Introduction Risk prediction scores usually overestimate mortality in obstetric populations because mortality rates in this group are considerably lower than in others. Studies examining this effect were generally small ...
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A Recursive Partitioning Approach to Hospital Case Mix Classification
... to build a segmented model with subgroup-specific vectors of parameters estimated from different models, its relative effectiveness against model-based trees which are based on a single distribution was probably not so ...
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Measuring Activity and Costs in Irish Hospitals: A Study of Hospital Case Mix
... This overview of tile h’isb bospital system shows that between 1980 and 1988, there was a 20 pet" cent decline in hospital beds, a 19 pet" cent decline in average length of stay, a 25 pe[r] ...
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The Effect of Case-Mix on Hemolysis Rates Following the Christchurch Earthquake
... our case the low-volume pre-quake community specimens were from acutely unwell patients and the high-volume influx community specimens were primarily from non-acute or healthy ...
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Health care reform and change in public private mix of financing: a Korean case
... the case in in-patient expendi- ture as well, relates to the sharp increase in the doctor’s consultation fee, which was allowed in order to com- pensate the margin lost by the prohibition of the sale of ...
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The SMS Chaum Mix
... In the proposed system, digital signatures are created using the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECSDA). Grillo et al. proposed using ECC (elliptic curve cryptography) [8] as a method of signing SMS messages ...
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