[PDF] Top 20 Psychiatrist Volume; Length of Stay and Mental Healthcare Readmission Rates: A Three-year Population-based Study

... quality of home healthcare services, as well as local community services and ...none of this information is available from the ...the three-year cross-sectional data does provide ... 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 ... See full document

... 2001-2003 and included a total of 29,373 patients with schizophrenia divided equally into four groups according to LOS of index ...physician and patient characteristics, a ... 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

... Given that more than 90% of suicide victims previously suffer from mental illness,2 suicide is often regarded as a complication of psychiatric disorders5; indeed, the antisuicidal effe[r] ... See full document

... This study sets out to explore the relationship between hospital characteristics, asthma length of stay (LOS), and costs per ...The study adopts hospitalization data from the ... See full document

... is a need for the hospitalization of schizophrenia patients of low-vol- ume psychiatrists, they may be worse off than patients of high-volume psychiatrists, and may thus incur ... See full document

... in a general population aged 40 years and above; prior studies support our ...middle-aged and elderly Taiwanese 31 and among Type 1 diabetes patients in America 32 and ...general ... See full document

... suicide rates per 100,000 of the population were calculated across the 7-year study period, with seasonality being a general component of the time-series pattern; the ... See full document

... Seasonality of suicide has been noted in several studies. A spring peak of suicide was observed, and associations between various climatic parameters and suicide have been ...This ... See full document

... Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan, ROC b National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Checheng, Pingtung 944, Taiwan, ... See full document

... (HCV) and liver cirrhosis or a family history of HCC, HBV, or HCV chronic infections, which are the two major etiologies for HCC in ...last three decades has seen remarkable advances in ... 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

... Methods: A retrospective, population-based, cross-sectional study set in Taiwan, involving a total of 697 814 eligible deaths occurred between 1995 and 2004, among elderly ... See full document

... Patients treated at low–PCI volume hospitals had 1.54 (95% CI, 1.17-2.02) times higher odds of 30-day mortality than those treated at high–PCI volume hospitals after adjusting for othe[r] ... See full document

... METHOD: A retrospective cohort study was conducted using linked population-based data to determine the proportion of health care service use among suicide victims aged 15 years and old[r] ... See full document

... strength of our study lies in its longitudinal base and large popu- lation size, combined with the use of a comprehensive time-series analysis approach applied to the data of the ... See full document

... After adjusting for seasonality, month, and trends, the ARIMA regression models revealed that the monthly pneumonia admissions rate was significantly associated with ambient temperatur[r] ... See full document

... factors and the study sample excluded women who had any clinical indication for cesarean delivery, these odds ratios closely reflect maternal choice patterns, despite being clinically suitable for vaginal ... See full document

... STUDY DESIGN: Five-year population-based data from Taiwan (1997-2001) that covered 904,657 singleton deliveries without a clinical indication for cesarean delivery that were judged by [r] ... See full document