[PDF] Top 20 Length of stay and costs for asthma patients by hospital characteristics: A five-year population-based analysis.

... between hospital characteristics, asthma length of stay (LOS), and costs per ...database by principal diagnosis of asthma or asthmatic ... See full document

... Multiple-regression analyses were performed to explore the relationship between LOS, costs per discharge and hospital characteristics, adjusting for age, gender, and discharge status o[r] ... 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 ...used for the years 2001-2003 and included a total of 29,373 patients with schizophrenia divided equally into four groups according ... See full document

... Patients and methods Data source This study was a nation-wide, population-based analysis of insurance claims data from the 23 million insured people of Taiwan’s ... See full document

... Patients and Methods Data Source This study was a nationwide, population-based anal- ysis of insurance claims data from the 23 million insured people of Taiwan’s National ... See full document

... in a nationwide population-based study in ...period of 1997–2005, from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database, a source that covers over 96% of Taiwan’s 23 ... See full document

... In a cost-conscious healthcare environment, the first stage in optimizing inpatient treatment is gaining an understanding of the factors contribut- ing to the variations in length of ... See full document

... quality of home healthcare services, as well as local community services and ...none of this information is available from the ...provide a detailed picture of the relationship bet- ... See full document

... ANOVA and t-test analy- ses to examine the relationship among LOS, DMC, DE, NDE, patient characteristics, and hos- pital ...skewed and DMC was so large that it biased our regression re- ...DE ... See full document

... blamed for wide variations among hospitals for treat- ing similar ...offered by the case-payment system. Proprietary hospitals and district hospitals have significantly shorter LOSs than do ... See full document

... beginning of Taiwan's National Health Insurance Program in ...selected patients undergoing a vaginal delivery to explore the relationships between maternal length of stay (LOS) ... See full document

... Materials and Methods Patients and data collection We enrolled 586 patients who had experienced their first stroke, with cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral infarction, from a 1400-bed ... See full document

... majority of patients in both Taipei and Hualien County ...(65.2% and 76.6%, respectively), and this is consistent with previous ...Taiwan, and it is not region-specific. ... See full document

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

... as a Th1 disease, which is consistent with the relative underrepresentation of Th2 diseases, such as atopic dermatitis, in patients with ...29 A study reported that mesenchymal stem cells ... See full document

... group for HCC in Taiwan includes patients chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) and liver cirrhosis or a family history of HCC, HBV, or HCV ... See full document

... This study was to examine the effect of hospital and surgeon volume on 5-year survival and to determine whether hospital or surgeon volume is the stronger predictor in patients with he[r] ... See full document

... model of length of stay for stroke patients in rehabilitation ward can be used as the basis of reimbursement for stroke rehabilitation in global budget and ... See full document

... stroke, and metabolic syndrome. 5–8 Recent studies have defined psoriasis as a systemic chronic inflammatory disease, characterized by dysregulation of the T-cell response and ... See full document