OBJECTIVE To determine nationwide general practitioner (GP)-diagnosed prevalence and pediatrician-diagnosed incidence rates of adolescent chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and to assess CFS morbidity. DESIGN AND SETTING We collected data from a cross-sectional national sample among GPs and prospective registration of new patients with CFS in all pediatric hospital departments in the Netherlands...

BACKGROUND To compare the quantitative antibiotic use between hospitals or hospital units and to explore differences, adjustment for severity of illness of hospitalized patients is essential. The case mix index (CMI) is an economic surrogate marker (i.e. the total cost weights of all inpatients per a defined time period divided by the number of admissions) to describe the average patients' morb...

BACKGROUND The ability to accurately forecast census counts in hospital departments has considerable implications for hospital resource allocation. In recent years several different methods have been proposed forecasting census counts, however many of these approaches do not use available patient-specific information. METHODS In this paper we present an ensemble-based methodology for forecast...

1 Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 2 Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 3 Institute of Clinical Medicine (Psychiatry), University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland 4 Departments of Psychiatry, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio 5 Departments of Psychiatry, South-Savonia Hospital District, Mikkel...

P.T. Vaerkel In this thesis we address a number of challenging problems related to health care logistics. These problems are motivated by hospital managers who collaborated in the research, and the results are applied at their hospitals. The general results are valid in other hospital settings and the solution approaches used to cope with system complexity and patient flow uncertainty are novel...

The length of hospital stay and its implications have a significant economic human impact. As consequence, the prediction that key parameter has been subject to previous research in recent years. Most work analysed particular departments within specific study groups, which resulted successful rates, but only occasionally reporting predictive patterns. In this we report model for (LOS) together ...

Objective: According to the definition of World Health Organization (WHO), attempting suicide is an act that a person intentionally and without others’ interference shows an abnormal behavior (such as harming themselves or eating a drug higher than treatment dose) and his objective is realizing his expected changes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the demographic c...

Patient education in emergency departments faces complexities and challenges due to the wide variety of clinical care provided in this setting. Despite widespread recognition of the value and benefits of education, we frequently see that patient education in hospital emergency departments is less than optimal and that emergency departments are not employed as venues conducive to providing suita...