By Surgeon John D. T. RECKITT, M.S. Tiie Station Hospital of Poonamallee Convalescent Depot, is situated about 12 miles inland from Madras. Tlie hospital is a magnificent airy building, and will accommodate quite 100 sick, which are supplied from all European stations of the Madras Presidency, including Burma. The bazar and village, with a population of 12,000 or 14,000, are close to the hospit...

This paper provides a description of the nature of hospital sector, with an emphasis on private hospital sector, in Madras city. It highlights some of the characteristics of the hospital sector, namely its size, distribution, range of services offered, manpower employed, and price differentials for outpatient care. A preliminary comparison of 35 private hospitals suggests presence of price-comp...

A detailed survey of the resources used by two common groups of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions in one medical center hospital found substantial cross-subsidization, with healthier patients admitted for monitoring using significantly less labor resources than sicker patients. Both groups had equal bed charges. This suggests that the resource costs of admitting stable patients to an ICU for...

Ever since the turn of the century the incidence and severity of acutf rheumatism have been steadily falling. In 1889 Cheadle stated that acutf rheumatism was the commonest cause for admission to hospital and was als? frequently seen in private practice. A similar state of affairs is revealed by ̂ figures for admission to one ward at the Bristol Children's Hospital in charge of Dr. Edgeworth who...

Reduction in maternal mortality has not been appreciable in most low-income countries. Improved access to transport for mothers is one way to improve maternal health. This study evaluated a free-of-charge 24-hour ambulance and communication services intervention in Oyam district using 'Caesarean section rate' (CSR) and compared with the neighbouring non-intervention district. Ecological data we...

BACKGROUND The belief that many delays in discharge from hospital were caused by social service departments (SSDs) led to the Community Care Act 2003 giving NHS hospitals in England the power to charge SSDs. METHODS We surveyed 150 SSDs in England about the implementation of the Act and used routine data to analyse trends in the number of delayed discharge patients; the number and cause of de...

Mechanical ventilatory support (VS) is often required for patients with AIDS. Patients and/or their surrogates often ask the likely outcome of this intervention. To answer this question, we have de¬ veloped a classification tree using clinical data from 71 patients with AIDS identified from the dis¬ charge abstracts of two hospitals between January 1990 and September 1994. These data were ob¬ t...

The Bellevue Hospital sought to improve its performance in three areas-days in accounts receivable (A/R), denials, and charge capture-to enhance revenue integrity. Results included the following: A 30-percent reduction in days in A/R. A nearly 200 percent increase in bad debt collections. A more than $1.6 million reduction in denials write-offs. An improvement in net revenue of more than $1 mil...

612 P&T® • September 2003 • Vol. 28 No. 9 The information cited in this article is available free of charge to hospitals that participate in the PharmScope Insights program. The program specializes in helping hospital pharmacies target areas for performance improvement by providing benchmarks from a panel of 80 hospitals nationwide. For information about joining PharmScope Insights, a division ...