STOPPING TEETH AT GENERAL HOSPITALS.

Specialty hospitals: can general hospitals compete?

The rapid increase in specialty cardiac, surgical, and orthopedic hospitals has captured the attention of general hospitals and policymakers. Although the number of specialty hospitals remains small in absolute terms, their entry into certain health care markets has fueled arguments about the rules of "fair" competition among health care providers. To allow the smoke to clear, Congress effectiv...

Coronary revascularization at specialty cardiac hospitals and peer general hospitals in black Medicare beneficiaries.

BACKGROUND Critics have raised concerns that specialty cardiac hospitals exacerbate racial disparities in cardiovascular care, but empirical data are limited. METHODS AND RESULTS We used administrative data from the Medicare Provider and Analysis Review Part A and Provider-of-Service files from 2002 to 2005. Multivariable logistic regression models were constructed to examine the likelihood o...

Dual representations for general multiple stopping problems

In this paper, we study the dual representation for generalized multiple stopping problems, hence the pricing problem of general multiple exercise options. We derive a dual representation which allows for cashflows which are subject to volume constraints modeled by integer valued adapted processes and refraction periods modeled by stopping times. As such, this extends the works by Schoenmakers ...

General Hospitals and Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Liaison Psychiatry in General Hospitals

Rap id growth of general hospital psychiatr ic units all over the world has piovided impetus to consultation-liaison work ca r r ied out by the psychiatrists in the non-psychiatr ic depar tments of general hospitals . Liaison psychiatry has acquired the status of a subspeciality within psychiatry and its development has paral le led the shift of psychiatry from men ta l hospitals to general hos...