Health care delivery in Maine II: conditions explaining hospital admission.

Health care delivery in Maine, III: evaluating the level of hospital performance.

A system-wide approach to explaining variation in potentially avoidable emergency admissions: national ecological study

BACKGROUND Some emergency admissions can be avoided if acute exacerbations of health problems are managed by the range of health services providing emergency and urgent care. AIM To identify system-wide factors explaining variation in age sex adjusted admission rates for conditions rich in avoidable admissions. DESIGN National ecological study. SETTING 152 emergency and urgent care system...

Explaining Management Status of Intensive Care Units Beds: A Qualitative Study

Introduction: Access to intensive care unit (ICU) beds varies in different countries. Due to the population growth, aging, and longer survival of chronic patients, demand for these beds is increasing all over the world. The present study was performed to assess the management status of ICU beds in selected teaching hospitals affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Method:...

[Impact of health services delivery on hospital admission utilization in Brazil].

OBJECTIVE To assess hospital services utilization in Brazil incorporating information about health services delivery. METHODS Data from the National Household Survey carried out by Brazilian Institute of Statistics and Geography (IBGE) in 1998 and from other sources were collected. Hierarchical models having the individual in the first level and the state of residence in the second level were...

Hospital responses to the leapfrog group in local markets.

The Leapfrog (LF) initiative, directed at improving patient safety in hospitals, may be the most ambitious, coordinated attempt to date on the part of large employers to shape the delivery of health care in America. This article assesses the role of market conditions and other factors in influencing hospital responses to LF activities at the community level. Community characteristics were found...