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Anatomy of a public health agency turnaround: the case of the general health district in mahoning county.

A turnaround describes an organization's ability to recover from successive periods of decline. Current and projected declines in US economic conditions continue to place local public health departments at risk of fiscal exigency. This examination…

Tags: 2012, Costs and Cost Analysis, Day Care – Economics, Dessens Scott, Financial Management, Honoré Peggy A, Journal of Public Health Management & Practice, Laboratories – Economics, Leadership, Ohio, Organizational, Organizational Restructuring, Public Health – Economics, Public Health Administration – Economics, PUBLIC sector, Quality Management, Stefanak Matthew, STRATEGIC planning, Workforce

Breast cancer screening in a private women's clinic.

A review of 6109 mammograms representing 4332 patients seen over 4 years is presented. The American Cancer Society guidelines for mammography screening were followed. Forty-five percent of all tumors were nonpalpable; in 12% of these the lymph nodes…

Tags: *Mass Screening/economics, 1988, Adult, American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, Biopsy, Breast Neoplasms/economics/*epidemiology, Breast/pathology, Costs and Cost Analysis, Female, Hospitals, Humans, Jarjoura D, Lymphatic Metastasis, Mammography/economics, Middle Aged, Needle/economics, Ohio, Proprietary, Tifft J G

Cost-effectiveness analysis of the treatment of large leiomyomas: laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy versus abdominal hysterectomy.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to perform a cost-effectiveness analysis comparing the treatment of large leiomyomas by laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) versus abdominal hysterectomy (AH). STUDY DESIGN: Twenty consecutive…

Early use of Daptomycin Compared to Vancomycin for MRSA Bacteremia.

Tags: 2013, Antibiotics – Therapeutic Use, Bacteremia – Drug Therapy, Comparative Studies, Costs and Cost Analysis, Daptomycin – Administration and Dosage, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Medicine Alert, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, NEOMED College of Medicine, Retrospective Design, Treatment Duration, Treatment Outcomes, Vancomycin – Administration and Dosage, Watkins Richard R

Fecal Transplant vs. Oral Vancomycin Taper for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection.

In a small randomized, controlled trial that compared fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) administered by enema to a six-week oral vancomycin taper, FMT was not more effective for patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection.

Measuring the costs of primary care education in the ambulatory setting.

In 1995, the authors obtained cost, operations, and educational activity data from 98 ambulatory care sites across the United States in which primary care teaching was occurring and compared those data with the corresponding data from 84 ambulatory…

Tags: *Ambulatory Care, 2000, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Boex J R, Boll A, Budgets, Costs and Cost Analysis, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Education, Franzini L, Hogan A J, Irby D, Medical/*economics, Meservey P M, NEOMED College of Medicine, Rubin R M, Seifer S D, United States, Veloski J J

Medical care use by treated and untreated substance abusing medicaid patients.

Medicaid reimbursement costs for county residents at least 18 years old who used a treatment service (n = 1043) and residents who were Medicaid enrollees with a substance abuse diagnosis but who did not receive treatment (n = 2125) were compared.…

Sofosbuvir and Ledipasvir combo Therapy for HCV: End game for interferon?

Tags: 2014, adverse drug event, Antiviral Agents – Therapeutic Use, Costs and Cost Analysis, Department of Internal Medicine, Drug Combinations – Therapeutic Use, Genotype, Hepatitis C – Drug Therapy, Hepatitis C – Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Alert, NEOMED College of Medicine, RANDOMIZED controlled trials, Ribavirin – Therapeutic Use, Watkins Richard R

The myths of laparoscopic surgery.

Laparoscopic surgery has been rapidly accepted without rigorous scientific study. New procedures and technologies have advanced rapidly, and most gynecologists have embraced these techniques. I believe that the new technology has given rise to the…

Tags: *Laparoscopy/economics, 2000, American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, Costs and Cost Analysis, Female, Female/surgery, General Surgery/education, Genital Neoplasms, Gynecologic Surgical Procedures/methods, Hopkins M P, Humans

Understanding the costs of ambulatory care training.

While patient care has been shifting to the ambulatory setting, the education of health care professionals has remained essentially hospital-based. One factor discouraging the movement of training into community-based ambulatory settings is the lack…

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