BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to estimate healthcare resource utilization, work absenteeism and cost per patient with pandemic influenza (H1N1)2009, from its beginning to March 2010, in Spain. We also estimated the economic impact on healthcare services. METHODS AND FINDINGS Longitudinal, descriptive, multicenter study of in- and outpatients with confirmed diagnosis of influenza A (H1N...

Study Design Systematic review. Study Rationale As the length of stay after cervical spine surgery has decreased substantially, the feasibility and safety of outpatient cervical spine surgery come into question. Although minimal length of stay is a targeted metric for quality and costs for medical centers, the safety of outpatient cervical spine surgery has not been clearly defined. Objective T...

BACKGROUND Spinal surgery is increasingly being done in the outpatient setting. We reviewed our experience with inpatient and outpatient single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with plating (ACDF+P). METHODS All patients undergoing single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with plating between August 2005 and May 2007 by two surgeons (RPB or JAF) were retrospectively r...

a total of 385 urine specimens from suspected urinary tract infections were subjected to bacteriological analysis and susceptibility testing at a major university hospital laboratory in tehran. a battery of eight beta-iactam antibiotics, commonly prescribed in iran, and three third-generation cephalosporins (ceftazidime, ceftriaxone and ceftizoxime) that are usually reserved for limited use in ...

according to importance of cirrhosis of the liver and the lack of information about the economic burden of the disease, we performed this study to estimate the economic burden of liver cirrhosis in iran in 2011.the cost-of-illness method, based on the human capital theory, has been used. both direct and indirect costs have been estimated using a prevalence approach and bottom-up method. the inp...

Abstract Background China has initiated a medical pricing reform to combat the overuse of drugs and relieve financial burden patients. This paper aims analyze effect on revenue structure healthcare expenditure county public hospitals in Guangdong province. Methods Based monthly data from January 2013 August 2019, we use interrupted time series design evaluate effects both outpatients inpatients...

The cost of COVID-19 services can be a burden in itself that affect hospital budgets. Services for patients at RSUP dr. Kariadi has so far been running well and smoothly, but there is no detailed data information regarding financing, the process submitting financing claim its implications finances as leadership policies activities are needed to analyze costs COVID-19. purpose study was COVID-19...

The study was aimed at assessing the economic cost shouldered by government, as providers, in the provision of free Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment services in Bauchi State, northern Nigeria. A cost analysis study was designed and questionnaires administered by the principal investigators to officers in charge of 27 randomly sampled government TB services providers across the State of...

background: to determine the prevalence of outpatient and hospitalization for cataract surgery in iran. methods: a random cluster sampling was done in a cross-sectional study on cataract surgeries performed in treatment centers of ophthalmology in iran between 2000 and 2005. one week of each season was selected randomly and all cataract surgery files of the center were studied. this study repor...