OBJECTIVE Despite a growing volume of surgical procedures in low-income and middle-income countries, the costs of these procedures are not well understood. We estimated the costs of 12 surgical procedures commonly conducted in five different types of hospitals in India from the provider perspective, using a microcosting method. DESIGN Cost and utilisation data were collected retrospectively f...

objectives: there are much more studies about adolescence in most countries in compare with other age groups. the goal of this study is evaluation of relationship between duration of hospitalization in elderly patients in comparison to the middle ages. methods & materials: this is a descriptive analysis, cross sectional, case study and retrospective research that was done after gathering the da...

Healthcare and hospital services continue to evolve. This has led managers being faced with high demand for health services, shortages of beds resulting in delayed inpatient admissions emergency rooms, improper use beds, failure transfer flows among care units that could reduce the quality care. study aims provide information on bed management bibliometric data. Bibliometric analysis is used lo...

Since 1964, Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC Children’s) has been steadfastly committed to providing the highest quality medical care to children. Affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, our regional pediatric healthcare network includes a state-of-the-art 279-bed main hospital facility in the City of Orange, and a 54-bed hospital-within-a-hospital in Mission Viejo. CHOC...

Background: Health equity is “having fair access to healthcare, utilizing it according to actual needs, paying for it based on financial capacity and finally, having an acceptable level of health”. Health equity is an underlying principle of the universal declaration of human rights. Equitable distribution of hospital beds increases people’s access to healthcare services and as a result, improv...

OBJECTIVE Skeletal-related events (SREs) among patients with bone metastases from lung cancer may be associated with considerable use of health care resources. We analyzed in- and outpatient hospital contacts in relation to SREs among all Danish lung cancer patients with bone metastases. METHODS For this cohort study, we used the Danish Cancer Registry and the Danish National Registry of Pati...