BACKGROUND Psychiatric acute wards are obliged to admit patients without delay according to the Act on Compulsive Psychiatric Care. Residential long term treatment facilities and rehabilitation facilities may use a waiting list. Patients, who may not be discharged from the acute ward or should not wait there, then occupy acute ward beds. MATERIALS AND METHODS Bed occupancy in one acute ward a...

BACKGROUND In order to provide guidance on the efficient allocation of health resources when handling public health emergencies in the future, the study evaluated the H1N1 influenza prevention and control program in Hubei Province of China using cost-benefit analysis. METHODS The costs measured the resources consumed and other expenses incurred in the prevention and control of H1N1. The assum...

Cuisine is an activity that meets human physical and psychological needs. With the development of civilization, cuisine is an important component of culture and includes the dietary profession. However, each nation or each area has its own characteristic cuisine. There are eight major styles of Chinese cuisine, Hangzhou style is an important part of Zhe style. It was divided into two branches n...

Psychiatric disorders are the most prevalent problems of modern living, with drugs for the management of these disorders selling in billions of dollars every year around the world. It is estimated that about 50 million people have either moderate or severe forms of psychiatric disorders in India.[1] The same article mentions that India provides one bed per 40,000 population and three psychiatri...

Price-ending strategies may be utilized by hotels to signal value or quality. The current study presents that there is a directional relationship between room rates and price-ending strategies. It demonstrates that as average room rates decrease, the price-ending strategies change from whole dollar practice to dollar and cents practice. Results from the qualitative investigation were compared w...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) account for about 1.7 million infections and 99,000 deaths in the United States each year. This number represents 4.5 infections for every 100 hospital admissions.1 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) March 2009 report on the direct medical costs of HAIs estimates that $35.7 to $45 billion in 2007 dollars is added to the nation’s annual h...

This paper addresses the potential economic benefits of chromium picolinate plus biotin (Diachrome) use in people with Type 2 diabetes (T2DM). The economic model was developed to estimate the impact on health care systems' costs by improved HbA1C levels with chromium picolinate plus biotin (Diachrome). Lifetimes cost savings were estimated by adjusting a benchmark from the literature, using a p...