scholarly journals Network optimization approach to delineating health care service areas: Spatially constrained Louvain and Leiden algorithms

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changzhen Wang ◽  
Fahui Wang ◽  
Tracy Onega
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Network Optimization ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Service Areas

scholarly journals A Simulation-Based Multiobjective Optimization Approach for Health Care Service Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1480-1491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Lucidi ◽  
Massimo Maurici ◽  
Luca Paulon ◽  
Francesco Rinaldi ◽  
Massimo Roma
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Multiobjective Optimization ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Simulation Based

Consistency in regional trends of aggressiveness in cancer care near the end of life for elderly Americans, 1991–2000

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (18_suppl) ◽  
pp. 6004-6004 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Earle ◽  
M. Landrum ◽  
S. Jeffrey ◽  
B. Neville ◽  
J. Weeks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Service Areas ◽  
One Year

6004 Background: We have previously developed and reported on performance measures assessing the aggressiveness of cancer treatment near the end of life for selected cancers during 1993–96. Methods: We compared the care delivered in the 77 Health Care Service Areas (HCSAs) monitored by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program to all Medicare-eligible patients aged 65 and over who died of cancer (any diagnosis) between 1991 and 2000. We used hierarchical regression models to estimate regional variation in both levels and trends of each indicator. We then ranked each region according to the model-estimated rate of each indicator and computed the correlation among relative ranks of each region over the ten-year study period. Results: 215,488 patients met eligibility criteria. Within this broader and more recent sample we confirmed previous observations of steadily and significantly increasing use of chemotherapy within 2 weeks of death, emergency room visits, and intensive care unit admissions in the last month of life, and, among those admitted to hospice, an increasing proportion of late admissions within 3 days of death. There was significant regional variation in all measures, but the relative rankings of health care service areas from one year to the next were stable, with correlations of ranks ranging from .91–.98 from 1991–1992, and .66–.84 over the 5-year span from 1991–1995. Because of significant regional variation in trends, we found only moderate correlations ranging from .40–.61 over the entire decade. Conclusions: Cancer treatment near the end of life continued to become increasingly aggressive over the 1990s, however, there was significant regional variation in trends. The stability of regional practice patterns supports the reliability of these measures for quality surveillance purposes. [Table: see text] No significant financial relationships to disclose.

The Great Awakening - Digitalization in Dental Healthcare during the pandemic COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 380-384
Author(s):  
Priyanka Paul Madhu ◽  
Yojana Patil ◽  
Aishwarya Rajesh Shinde ◽  
Sangeeta Kumar ◽  
Pratik Phansopkar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Health Care Facility ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
World Health ◽  
Record System ◽  
The World

disease in 2019, also called COVID-19, which has been widely spread worldwide had given rise to a pandemic situation. The public health emergency of international concern declared the agent as the (SARS-CoV-2) the severe acute respiratory syndrome and the World Health Organization had activated significant surveillance to prevent the spread of this infection across the world. Taking into the account about the rigorousness of COVID-19, and in the spark of the enormous dedication of several dental associations, it is essential to be enlightened with the recommendations to supervise dental patients and prevent any of education to the dental graduates due to institutional closure. One of the approaching expertise that combines technology, communications and health care facilities are to refine patient care, it’s at the cutting edge of the present technological switch in medicine and applied sciences. Dentistry has been improved by cloud technology which has refined and implemented various methods to upgrade electronic health record system, educational projects, social network and patient communication. Technology has immensely saved the world. Economically and has created an institutional task force to uplift the health care service during the COVID 19 pandemic crisis. Hence, the pandemic has struck an awakening of the practice of informatics in a health care facility which should be implemented and updated at the highest priority.

Impulse Control Disorders in Medical Settings

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean G. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Impulse Control ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Impulse Control Disorders ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Medical Settings ◽  
Primary Care Settings ◽  
Primary Health

Impulse control disorders (ICDs) and conditions with impulse control features provide a challenge in terms of identification, treatment, and follow-up when mental health specialists are in short supply. Medical settings, in particular the largest, primary health care, provide an opportunity to address many impulse-affected conditions currently poorly assessed and treated in health care settings. Barriers to intervention for ICDs in primary health care are time constraints; understanding of the etiology, symptoms, and appropriate interventions; the health and social costs; and prioritizing of training in and treatment of conditions perceived as more serious or appropriate to a primary health care service. These barriers may possibly be overcome in primary care settings, and in this chapter, a model to address problem gambling is described.

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