Marine economy plays an important role in the growth of the global economy. With its continuous development in the past years, the driving roll of marine economy in China’s economy has become remarkable. It is of strategic significance for China’s economic sustainable development to strengthen the exploration of marine resources and promote the quality and profit of the marine economy. To explo...

IMPORTANCE Surgical site infections (SSIs) may increase health care costs, but few studies have conducted an analysis from the perspective of hospital administrators. OBJECTIVE To determine the change in hospital profit due to SSIs. DESIGN Retrospective study of data from January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2010. SETTING The study was performed at 4 of The Johns Hopkins Health System acute c...

With the rapid growth of congestion-sensitive and data-intensive applications, traditional settlement-free peering agreements with best-effort delivery often do not meet the QoS requirements of content providers (CPs). Meanwhile, Internet access providers (IAPs) feel that revenues from end-users are not sufficient to recoup the upgrade costs of network infrastructures. Consequently, some IAPs h...

BACKGROUND The United States has a high proportion of people without health insurance (15%) and a low proportion of people without employment (5%), resulting in millions who lack insurance but have some ability to pay. We tested whether hospitals charge similar prices for well-specified elective services to individuals paying out-of-pocket for medical care. METHODS We surveyed the 2 largest g...

Though governmental officials often have far greater responsibilities and make far more consequential decisions than do CEOs of private firms, government officials often earn far less. We offer explanations for the differences, considering Nash bargaining with the head of a governmental agency or with the CEO of a private firm. In the benchmark case, with a governmental agency providing consume...

This report addresses a question of importance for policymakers: "What are the determinants of the total charges for health care that U.S. families face?" Policymakers' concerns about this question have two main grounds. First, U.S. health care costs are large and growing rapidly. They now exceed 11 percent of the gross national product, and the answer to the question can shed some light on the...

How the behavior of non-profit organizations differs from that of for-profit organizations has been the topic of a wide body of research. The motivational and behavioral differences resulting from the two organizational forms are particularly important in the U.S. health-care sector – an industry dominated by non-profit enterprise. This paper outlines some of the theories of non-profit hospital...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Previous studies have shown that charges for inpatient and clinic procedures vary substantially; however, there are scant data on variation in charges for emergency department (ED) visits. Outpatient ED visits are typically billed with current procedural terminology-coded levels to standardize the intensity of services received, providing an ideal element on which to evaluate ch...

It's pivotal to study growth and substance. It can identify its strengths faults for unborn exploration through this evaluation assessment. By using profitability analysis, a business may determine if investments are producing advanced returns, whether operation is effective or not, it has hired workers not. The lifeblood of establishment profit. For survival, development, expansion, it's essen...

introduction althoughthere is a consensus that the economic burden of burn injury is high, but few studies have conducted about cost of burns injury among pediatric in developing countries. we explored the main factors influencing on hospital costs and length of stay (los) associated with pediatric burns injury in kermanshah, iran. methods and material we performed a review ofmedical records fr...