Analyzing the 20-year declining trend of hospital length-of-stay in European countries with different healthcare systems and reimbursement models
AbstractThe study aims to investigate the last 20-year (2000 –2019) of hospital length of stay (LOS) trends and their association with different healthcare systems (HS) among 25 European countries. A panel dataset was created using secondary data from Eurostat and Global Burden of Disease study databases, with dependent and control variables aggregated at t he national level over a period of 20 years. A time trend analysis was conducted using a weighted least squares model for panel data to investigate the association between LOS, HS models [National Health Service (NHS), National Health Insurance, Social Health Insuran...
Source: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics - March 21, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
The impact of regulation and central management on patient safety in israel
Harefuah. 2024 Mar;163(3):170-173.ABSTRACTAn adverse event is defined as an unwanted and unexpected occurrence in a medical process that may end in harm to the patient. In the USA the number of deaths due to failures reaches 253,000 per year. In Israel, over 10,000 deaths occur per year due to errors in the medical treatment of hospitalized patients, the third most common cause of death after heart disease and cancer. The main cause of failures in medical diagnosis and treatment is the complexity of the medical profession. A large number of caregivers in different medical disciplines are needed to treat one patient, theref...
Source: Cancer Control - March 20, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Yaron Niv Yossi Tal Source Type: research
An Overview of Peptides and Peptide Pools for Antigen-Specific Stimulation in T-Cell Assays
Methods Mol Biol. 2024;2768:29-50. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3690-9_3.ABSTRACTThe analysis of antigen-specific T-cell responses has become routine in many laboratories. Functional T-cell assays like enzyme-linked-immuno-spot (ELISPOT), which depend on antigen-specific stimulation, increasingly use peptides to represent the antigen of interest. Besides single peptides, mixtures of peptides (peptide pools) are very frequently applied. Such peptide pools may, for example, represent entire proteins (with overlapping peptides covering a protein sequence) or include noncontiguous peptides such as a collection of T-cell-stimulating...
Source: Mol Biol Cell - March 19, 2024 Category: Molecular Biology Authors: Karsten Schnatbaum Pavlo Holenya Sebastian Pfeil Michael Drosch Maren Eckey Ulf Reimer Holger Wenschuh Florian Kern Source Type: research
