Juma M Al-Kaabi1, Fatma Al Maskari2*, Taoufik Zoubeidi3, Abdishakur Abdulle1, Syed M Shah2, Paul Cragg4, Bachar Afandi4 and Abdul-Kader Souid5 1Departments of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences; UAE University, UAE 2Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences; UAE University, UAE 3Department of Statistics, College of Business and Economics, UAE Un...

From PSE Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – École Normale Supérieure – École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Paris, France (C.M.); University of Paris-Dauphine, France, and the Institute of Health Economics and Management, Lausanne, Switzerland (B.D.); AP-HP, Henri Mondor Hospital, Department of ...

Abstract Many applied settings in empirical economics require estimation of a large number individual effects, like teacher effects or location effects; health economics, prominent examples include patient doctor hospital effects. Increasingly, these are the object interest estimation, and predicted often used for further descriptive regression analyses. To avoid imposing distributional assumpt...

This dissertation is a collection of three essays on hospital response to regulation and risk preferences. Chapter 1 analyzes the Medicare Flex Program which allowed rural hospitals with fewer than 25 beds to convert to "Critical Access Hospital" status and receive cost-based Medicare reimbursement. Converting hospitals decrease their inpatient capacity by 30 percent on average to satisfy the b...

This study was designed to investigate the clinical and economic aspects of deliberate self-poisoning services in four teaching hospitals in Leeds, Leicester, Manchester and Nottingham. We investigated the management of the current self-harm episode, including direct in-hospital costs, in 456 individuals who presented to hospital on a total of 477 occasions with deliberate self-poisoning during...

To the Editor:—In the August 2005 issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Sandberg et al. describe an Operating Room of the Future (ORF) that includes extensive physical and workflow redesigns for “optimal support of advanced minimally invasive surgery.” The ORF enhancements incorporate increased capital costs for advanced equipment and increased personnel costs as compared with their standard operating room....

OBJECTIVE To determine if dual individualization of cefmenoxime dosing is cost-effective. DESIGN Retrospective, pharmacoeconomic decision analysis of two consecutively conducted prospective clinical studies. PATIENTS Patients with documented gram-negative nosocomial pneumonia were evaluated. Thirty-three patients received cefmenoxime at standard dosing and 28 patients received doses accordi...

Effective and resource-efficient long-term management of multimorbidity is one of the greatest health-related challenges facing patients, health professionals, and society more broadly. The purpose of this review was to provide a synthesis of literature examining multimorbidity and resource utilization, including implications for cost-effectiveness estimates and resource allocation decision mak...