Hospital volume
The Effect of Hospital Volume of Pediatric Appendectomies on the Misdiagnosis of Appendicitis in Children
... among hospital volume levels, our analysis was designed to adjust for these ...higher hospital vol- ume is associated with a lower risk of misdiagnosis, this study demonstrates the importance of ...
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Effect of hospital volume on outcomes of total hip arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... Recently, the concept of hospital factors has surfaced. It has been shown that hospitals performing more treatments of a given type exhibit better outcomes than hospitals per- forming fewer. This is called the ...
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Effects of Race, Insurance Status, and Hospital Volume on Perforated Appendicitis in Children
... foration was unexpectedly more common at highest volume hospitals. This effect did not persist in our multivariate model after controlling for race, insur- ance status, and age, suggesting that these demo- graphic ...
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Hospital Volume and Neonatal Mortality Among Very Low Birth Weight Infants
... delivery hospital, potentially intro- ducing a (most likely conservative) ...unit volume, including stillbirths and early neo- natal deaths, will be the subject of a separate investiga- ...on ...
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The effect of hospital volume on patient outcomes in severe acute pancreatitis
... 2,208 hospital-years (between 2000 and 2009) from Taiwan ’ s National Health Insurance Research ...was hospital mortality. Secondary outcomes were hospital length of stay and ...charges. ...
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Volume based referral for cardiovascular procedures in the United States: a cross sectional regression analysis
... a hospital volume minimum policy for cardiovascular procedures based on volume thresholds promoted by the Leapfrog Group [7] would have required the annual redistribution of more than 231,000 ...
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In Hospital Morbidity and Mortality after Endovascular Treatment of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms in the United States, 1996–2000: Effect of Hospital and Physician Volume
... and hospital characteristics to attempt to remove nonendovascular treatments from the cohort before analysis, as ...annual hospital volume of procedures coded as ...
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Hospital surgical volumes and mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting: using international comparisons to determine a safe threshold
... between hospital volume and mortality after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery has been explored within countries since the 1970s, when a negative association was first described (Luft, Bunker ...
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Hospital surgical volumes and mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting: using international comparisons to determine a safe threshold
... between volume and outcome could be the result of hospital-level processes, individual surgeon experience (Birkmeyer et al 2003) or ...Moreover, hospital volume of cases may be a marker for ...
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The volume-outcome relationship among severely injured patients admitted to English major trauma centres: a registry study
... of volume on outcome. Hospital volume was tested for nonlinearity using splines and Likelihood Ratio ...pital volume and a random intercept for ...
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Different quality of treatment in retroperitoneal sarcomas (RPS) according to hospital-case volume and surgeon-case volume: a retrospective regional analysis in Italy
... case volume (CCV) or by surgeon case volume ...versus hospital volume on outcomes after complex oncological surgery is poorly characterized ...high volume centers, in which the ...
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A systematic review of the impact of volume of surgery and specialization in Norwood procedure
... the hospital volume-outcome relationship with three cat- egories in intervals of 15 procedures ...high volume hospitals (high ...(treating hospital volume as a continuous variable (p = ...
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Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: The Effect of Hospital and Surgeon Volume on In-hospital Mortality
... annual hospital volume and annual surgeon volume were both sig- nificantly related to inpatient mortality rates, even after controlling for patient age and several clinical risk factors in addition ...
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Hospitality: the perspective of the users of the hospital cassems in relation to the hospital hotel
... Regardless of whether it is offered in a public or private institution, hospitality should be a rule in medical-hospital care, not an exception or a concession. Hospitality once treated as an instrument for ...
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What to expect from electronic patient record system implementation; lessons learned from published evidence
... Street Hospital (GOSH) and the associated University College London Institute of Child Health represent a large specialist, research active tertiary Children’s Hospital in ...
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Successful laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy: first experience in Lithuania
... The first cases of LLDN resulted in a shorter hospital stay and minor cosmetic defects. One case of weak postoperative abdomen pain might be par- ticularly caused by a longer operating room time and ...
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Differences of in-hospital outcomes within patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention at institutions with high versus low procedural volume: a report from the Japanese multicentre percutaneous coronary intervention registry
... Figure 2 shows the comparison of both in-hospital mortality and in-hospital complications between the patient cohorts. Overall, in-hospital mortality rates were similar between the two groups: 1.3% ...
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Abdominal injuries in a low trauma volume hospital - a descriptive study from northern Sweden
... University Hospital of Umeå, only 2–3 patients, annually, required abdominal ...University Hospital, which serves a local population of 260 000, and it serves 835 000 people as a secondary and tertiary ...
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Economic and healthcare related determinants of infant health at birth
... low volume neonatal units at the hospital of ...unit volume may have a causal effect on patient outcomes either through economies of scale and/or increased specific human capital in the ...low ...
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Pro/con debate: Do the benefits of regionalized critical care delivery outweigh the risks of interfacility patient transport?
... dependent on the rapid and accurate identification of their diagnoses and healthcare needs. Although straightforward in some subgroups of critically ill patients, such as in those with traumatic injuries, it can be very ...
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