The number of unplanned readmissions is an important quality improvement indicator for Australian hospitals, as it has a direct impact on costs and patient outcomes. It is a useful indicator for patient multi-morbidity to identify patients that should potentially have different treatment or discharge plans. The objective of the Health Insights Challenge project was to develop a predictive model...

The protracted COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have caused a severe deep crisis in colossal physical destruction. restoration the country, its economy entire socio-economic system determines urgency providing predictive indicators to identify fastest results. purpose article was forecast effectiveness government's economic policy based on Mandel-Fleming model for development ...

BACKGROUND Unplanned tracheal intubation after surgery has been associated with high mortality. Few studies have examined the risk factors for this complication. METHODS The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) is a multicenter, prospective, outcome-oriented database for patients having undergone major surgical procedures. Using the NSQIP data for...

Technology enabled government promises to deliver better services and hence facilitate better lives for citizens. However such e-government cannot be implemented without trust between government and citizens and between government departments. Concerns over information security and privacy have become a contentious issue for governments and stand in the way of that trust. Policy and legislation...

RATIONALE Public health policies are often dependent on political decision-making, but little is known of the impact of different forms of government on countries' health policies. In this exploratory study we studied the association between a wide range of process and outcome indicators of health policy and four groups of political factors (levels of democracy, e.g. voice and accountability; p...

The minimum wage, unlike most government transfer programs, lowered welfare in the 1980s and 1990s as measured by all commonly used welfare or inequality measures, including various Atkinson indexes, the Gini index, standard deviation of logarithms, and others. The effects of most government programs, macroeconomic variables, and aggregate demographic characteristics were qualitatively the same...

Public administrations of all over the world invest an enormous amount of resources in e-government. How the success of egovernment can be measured is often not clear. E-government involves many aspects of public administration ranging from introducing new technology to business process (re-)engineering. The measurement of the effectiveness of e-government is a complicated endeavor. In this pap...

We use the exogenous variation in fertility caused by a twin birth to measure the impact of an unplanned child on a woman’s marital status. Contrary to previous research, we find that an unplanned child has little effect on the married mother’s probability of subsequent divorce or remarriage. For unmarried mothers we find that an unplanned child does reduce the likelihood of marriage, but that ...

Though nations across the world are realizing the importance of e-Government, its successful adoption and acceptance by citizens still remains an elusive phenomenon. Citizen trust on eGovernment, which appears to be a major contributor for e-Government adoption and acceptance, has not been fully explored by researchers and governments. In this study, we use the theoretical lens of ‘citizen trus...

BACKGROUND The objectives of this study were to compare the risk factors for unplanned intensive care unit (ICU) transfer after emergency department (ED) admission in patients with infections and those without infections and to explore the feasibility of using risk stratification tools for sepsis to derive a prediction system for such unplanned transfer. METHODS The ICU transfer group include...