BACKGROUND How patients are informed regarding their choices of durable medical equipment (DME) providers for home-going respiratory equipment may affect their decisions about which vendor to use. When a new enhanced information program to inform home-going patients about all available respiratory DME providers was implemented, we hypothesized that patients' utilization of providers would chang...

The equipment lists provided in this article are not intended to be proscriptive or definitive. They are simply an illustration of the logical application of equipment selection and packing principles according to the likely needs of the casualty. Although trained personnel with relatively little equipment can perform simple interventions, optimal care requires some advanced techniques and good...

A simple mathematical model has been developed to identify and prioritize medical equipment in need of replacement. The model contains a total of ten attributes addressing four primary replacement issues: equipment service and support; equipment function; cost benefits; and clinical efficacy. Sensitivity to incomplete or subjective data is significantly reduced through the use of a "yes-no" (0,...

Abstract We study Medicare's competitive bidding program (CBP) for durable medical equipment (DME). use Medicare claims data to examine the effect on prices and utilization, focusing continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices sleep apnea. find that spending falls by 47.2% percent after a highly imperfect mechanism is introduced. This almost entirely driven 44.8% price reduction, though ...

the need for high-quality medical equipment in the hospital supply chain has more than ever demonstrated the necessity and importance of quality management to be implemented by administrators in line with the iranian health reform plan. in this study, the game theory was used to model the strategies chosen by companies supplying medical equipment to hospitals. considering the process of self-le...

When femtocells are deployed densely, the co-tier and cross-tier interference greatly impair the network performance in spectrum-sharing orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) femtocell networks. In order to solve this problem efficiently, a cluster-based resource allocation algorithm is proposed. First, the interference graph of femto-tier is built based on the measurement repor...