Health-economic outcomes in hospital patients with medical-psychiatric comorbidity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

L Jansen, M van Schijndel, J van Waarde… - PloS one, 2018‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Hospital inpatients often experience medical and psychiatric problems
simultaneously. Although this implies a certain relationship between healthcare utilization …

End‐of‐life care pathways for improving outcomes in caring for the dying

RJ Chan, J Webster, A Bowers - Cochrane Database of …, 2016‏ - cochranelibrary.com
Background This is an updated version of a Cochrane review published in Issue 11, 2013 in
the Cochrane Library. In many clinical areas, integrated care pathways are utilised as …

Effects of clinical pathways in the joint replacement: a meta-analysis

A Barbieri, K Vanhaecht, P Van Herck, W Sermeus… - BMC medicine, 2009‏ - Springer
Background A meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the use of clinical pathways for hip
and knee joint replacements when compared with standard medical care. The impact of …

Treatments for blunt chest trauma and their impact on patient outcomes and health service delivery

A Unsworth, K Curtis, SE Asha - Scandinavian journal of trauma …, 2015‏ - Springer
Blunt chest trauma is associated with a high risk of morbidity and mortality. Complications in
blunt chest trauma develop secondary to rib fractures as a consequence of pain and …

Variables affecting hospital length of stay: a sco** review

SC Buttigieg, L Abela, A Pace - Journal of health organization and …, 2018‏ - emerald.com
Purpose Tertiary hospitals have registered an incremental rise in expenditure mostly
because of the increasing demands by ageing populations. Reducing the length of stay …

A systematic review of the magnitude and cause of geographic variation in unplanned hospital admission rates and length of stay for ambulatory care sensitive …

J Busby, S Purdy, W Hollingworth - BMC health services research, 2015‏ - Springer
Background Unplanned hospital admissions place a large and increasing strain on
healthcare budgets worldwide. Many admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions …

Decision support for hospital bed management using adaptable individual length of stay estimations and shared resources

R Schmidt, S Geisler, C Spreckelsen - BMC medical informatics and …, 2013‏ - Springer
Background Elective patient admission and assignment planning is an important task of the
strategic and operational management of a hospital and early on became a central topic of …

Healthcare pathway discovery and probabilistic machine learning

AW Kempa-Liehr, CYC Lin, R Britten… - International journal of …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Background and purpose Healthcare pathways define the execution sequence of clinical
activities as patients move through a treatment process, and they are critical for maintaining …

Quality in trauma care: improving the discharge procedure of patients by means of Lean Six Sigma

GC Niemeijer, A Trip, KTB Ahaus… - Journal of Trauma …, 2010‏ - journals.lww.com
Background: The University Medical Center Groningen is a level I trauma center in the
northern part of the Netherlands. Sixty-three percent of all the patients admitted at the …

Developmental care pathway for hospitalised infants with CHD: on behalf of the Cardiac Newborn Neuroprotective Network, a Special Interest Group of the Cardiac …

AJ Lisanti, DJ Vittner, J Peterson… - Cardiology in the …, 2023‏ - cambridge.org
Infants and children born with CHD are at significant risk for neurodevelopmental delays and
abnormalities. Individualised developmental care is widely recognised as best practice to …