Dose Township-County Service Utilization (TCSU) Influence Patient’ Choice Afterward?

Monitoring the Impact of Heat Waves with Emergency Service Utilization Data in Los Angeles County

Introduction Los Angeles County’s (LAC) early event detection system captures over 60% of total ED visits, as well as 800 to 1,000 emergency dispatch calls from Los Angeles City Fire (LACF) daily. Both ED visits and EDC calls are classified into syndrome categories, and then analyzed for aberrations in count and spatial distribution. During periods of high temperatures, a heat report is generat...

Physicians' office staff influence patient choice and satisfaction.

The influence of patient size on dose conversion coefficients

In this study, the influence of patient size on organ and effective dose conversion coefficients (DCCs) was investigated for a representative interventional fluoroscopic procedure—cardiac catheterization. The study was performed using hybrid phantoms representing an underweight, average and overweight American adult male. Reference body sizes were determined using the NHANES III database and pa...

Measures of service utilization.

There has been considerable progress in the development of quantitative and qualitative measures of substance abuse treatment over the past two to three decades. Early treatment outcome research often approached treatment as a “black box.” Reports typically indicated only that study subjects were enrolled in a particular service modality, such as inpatient, residential, therapeutic community, o...

Is Patient Choice the Future of Health Care Systems?

Patient and user choice are at the forefront of the debate on the future direction of health and public services provision in many industrialized countries in Europe and elsewhere. It is used both, as a means to achieve desired policy goals in public health care systems such as greater efficiency and improved quality of care, and as a good with its own intrinsic value. However, the evidence sug...