Addiction is a progressive, chronic, and relapsing disorder of the brain that cannot be cured but can be treated. It is imperative to recognize the social overlay when planning to meet the health care needs of clients with addiction care needs. The implications for society are significant as addiction is a multifarious disease that costs the individual as well as the taxpayers. Administrators h...

This paper introduces a global constraint encapsulating a regular constraint together with several cumulative costs. It is motivated in the context of personnel scheduling problems, where a schedule meets patterns and occurrence requirements which are intricately bound. The optimization problem underlying the multicost-regular constraint is NP-hard but it admits an efficient Lagrangian relaxati...

repeating x-ray radiographs, as a common problem in radiology units, represent additional, non-billable costs due to increased film, chemistry, and equipment use as well as increased personnel time. furthermore, patients receive additional radiation exposure from repetitions and must remain on the premises until the second exam is completed. compounding the overt negative financial impact on th...

BACKGROUND Prescription assistance programs (PAPs) are offered by pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide medications at no out-of-pocket cost to various categories of medically indigent patients. some PAPs require only 1 application whereas others require as many as 4 applications per year per drug per patient, depending on the manufacturer's requirements. OBJECTIVE to measure the costs incu...

OBJECTIVE This study of Department of Defense (DoD) civilian employees Workers' Compensation (WC) claims for chargeback year 2000 through 2012 aimed to analyze the frequency, rates, and costs of WC claims representing 5% of the DoD annual personnel budget. METHODS A multiyear cross-sectional study of WC claims data identified the top five most frequent causes, natures, and anatomical sites; c...

Background: The outbreak of COVID-19 has a serious crisis for health systems in different countries. This study aimed to investigate the association between COVID-19 anxiety and cognitive failure and temperament components in the personnel of a hospital in the Yazd Province. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The participants were the personnel of a hospital. The convenie...

Objective: to analyze the scientific publications on automated and systematized elaboration of nursing service scale in health institutions. Methods: this is an integrative review with a search EMBASE, CINAHL, SCOPUS LILACS databases correlating descriptors Automation, Personnel Management, Information System, Tool Use, Nursing, Nurse, Nursing Staff, Shift Schedule. Results: 9 articles, 4 natio...