Providing quality care to patients at the lowest cost is of primary concern to hospitals, clinics, managed care organizations, integrated health systems, and other health care providers operating in a prospective payment environment. Therapy Cost 2000 can help health care providers and decision-makers in a variety of settings reach the goal of cost-effective, high-quality patient care.

We suggest better methods for monitoring the diagnostic and treatment services of health care providers. In particular, we examine the construction and use of industrial quality control methods as applied to the health care providers in both the prevention and cure for infectious diseases and the quality performance of health care providers especially in the area of acute care. We suggest imple...

Abstract Introduction: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India is constantly Functioning to provide optimum health care to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by updating health infrastructure. Objective:  To study the readiness and challenges of peripheral health facilities regarding skilled health workforce to provide Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC). Materials and Me...

PURPOSE We aimed to determine 1) whether dropout rate decreased and 2) whether health care providers' perceptions were changed with continued improvements of contents of clinical pathway (CP) for total knee arthroplasty (TKA). MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective study included two separate analyses of patients and health care providers. In the analysis of patients, dropout rates and reas...

Introduction Poor patient outcomes in South African maternal health settings have been associated with inadequately performing health care providers and poor clinical leadership at the point of care. While skill deficiencies among health care providers have been largely addressed, the provision of clinical leadership has been neglected. In order to develop and implement initiatives to ensure cl...

BACKGROUND In many low and middle income countries, the private sector is increasingly becoming an important source of health care, filling gaps where no or little public health care is available. However, knowledge on the private sector providers is limited The objective of this study was to determine the type and number of different types of health care providers, and the quality, cost and ut...

AIM to determine the rate of MRSA-carrier among patients, family members and health care providers, and the association between MRSA-carrier family members and health care providers on MRSA infection patient after orthopaedic surgery. METHODS this is a cross-sectional analytical study. Samples were taken consecutively during December 2010 to December 2011, consisting of postoperative patients...

We investigate the incentive issues that surround the adoption and sharing of electronic health records (EHR) and the potential role of a personal health record (PHR) platform in facilitating data sharing. Through our analysis, we find evidence that health care providers may not have an incentive to share patients’ records electronically even though EHR systems will increase consumer surplus, e...