Gradual initiation of dialysis as a means to reduce cost while providing quality health care

Acute care surgery: a means for providing cost-effective, quality care for gallstone pancreatitis

BACKGROUND Modern practice guidelines recommend index cholecystectomy (IC) for patients admitted with gallstone pancreatitis (GSP). However, this benchmark has been difficult to widely achieve. Previous work has demonstrated that dedicated acute care surgery (ACS) services can facilitate IC. However, the associated financial costs and economic effectiveness of this intervention are unknown and ...

[An approach to touching while providing high-quality affective health care to hospitalized elderly patients].

The aim of the present study was to verify the important factors of tacesics that should be observed while touching the elderly. This qualitative and exploratory field of study was developed using 117 undergraduate students and healthcare professionals who participated in a training course regarding nonverbal communication in gerontology. The results revealed that the majority of the participan...

The cost of providing health care benefits to early retirees.

Subsidized health care benefits would be guaranteed for early retirees ages fifty-five to sixty-four under President Bill Clinton's health care reform proposal. This is an important policy issue because persons in this age group are the least likely age cohort of the nonelderly population to be working. They are also the most likely to face high and uncertain health care costs. Previous researc...

Cost shifting does not reduce the cost of health care.

Survey method of health care providing to children less than one year in health ‎departments

Introduction: Health care providing to children with optimal quality is part of maternal and ‎child health program that its quality performance causes reduced mortality, complication and ‎health maintenance. Thus evaluating these care and promotion of health care providers, ‎performance and its quality certainly will have effective role in maternal child well – being‏.&rlm...