[PDF] Top 20 The Association between Psychiatrist Volume and Hospitalization Costs for Schizophrenia Patients: A Population-based Study

... their schizophrenia patients either because they provide more successful outpatient care or because they adopt more strict criteria for schizophrenia patient admis- ...is a need ... See full document

... BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Past studies consistently show an inverse relationship between physicians' surgical procedures/diagnoses volume and ...nationwide population-based data to ... See full document

... proxies for these sources of systematic variation, studies using more sophisticated risk-adjustment methods, outlined previ- ously, may be required to confirm our ...“actual” costs, but “charge” ... See full document

... quality and satisfaction of patient relate to the health services are concerned not only to the patients but also to the family, community, provider and the ...government. ... See full document

... explore the association between physician case volume and costs per discharge for patients with ...hospitalizations for stroke in 2004, treated by 3757 ... See full document

... explore the association between physician case volume and costs per discharge for patients with ...hospitalizations for stroke in 2004, treated by 3757 ... See full document

... Objective: A nationwide population-based dataset was used to explore the association between length of stay (LOS) and 30-day readmission rates for hospitalized ... See full document

... hospitalized patients with schizophrenia in Taiwan. METHODS: The National Health Insurance Research Database was used for the years 2001-2003 and included a total of ... See full document

... covering the years 2002 to 2003, the authors selected a total of 2325 oral cancer patients who had undergone free-flap ...surgeon volume groups consisting of less than or equal to 12 ... See full document

... explain the inverse volume- outcome relationship [1]. The first of these hypotheses, “practice makes perfect,” is based upon the rationale that a larger volume of ... See full document

... our study can be attributable to the “practice makes perfect” ...explain the volume– outcome relationship is that of “selective re- ...or patients leads more patient to provid- ers who ... See full document

... Of the sampled patients, 356 ...Those patients treated by low-volume (1–50 cases) surgeons had significantly higher mortality rates than those treated by medium-volume (51–100 cases) ... See full document

... explain the relationship between LOS and psychiatrist volume under the current healthcare environment in ...sick patients to stay in hospital as long as possible, in order ... See full document

... Lee. The corresponding author information provided was the correct information to contact Hsin-Chien ...Lee. The author information should have read: Herng-Ching Lin 2 , Chao-Hsiun Tang 2 , ... See full document

... Infants whose fathers had schizophrenia were found to be 1.58 (95% confidence interval = 1.10–2.52, P < .05) times more likely to have LBW than their counterparts whose fathers did [r] ... See full document

... on the results of an autopsy or a patient's subjective complaints, the use of which would complicate the design of a specifc population-based ...study. The ... See full document

... no study conducted outside of the United States on the association between physician volume and patient outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft ...surgery. The ... See full document

... indicates the most urbanized area and level 4 indicates the least ...of the elderly, proportion of agriculture workers, and the number of physicians per 100,000 people in ... See full document

... （ 台灣精神醫學 2008;22:141-7 ） 顯示，在 TNF-a 基因之 -308G/A 單核酸多型 性上，精神分裂症與對照組之間其對偶基因 頻率或基因型頻率並沒有任何差異；在家系 關聯性分析研究中，亦未發現此一單核酸多 型性有傳遞不平衡之現象。๖፣Ȉ本研究顯 示 TNF-a 基 因 之 -308G/A 單 核 酸 多 型 性 在 台灣精神分裂症的病源學上並不扮演決定性 ... See full document

... risks. Schizophrenia, as the HIV/AIDS population, has a relatively high mortality in younger age, resulting only ...of the population survives to age 50 and older. ... See full document