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Autor:
Barbara Langland-Orban PhD, John T. Large PhD, Alan M. Sear PhD, Hanze Zhang MSPH, Nanhua Zhang PhD
Publikováno v:
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, Vol 52 (2015)
Medicare Advantage was implemented in 2004 and the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program was implemented in Florida during 2005. Both increase surveillance of medical necessity and deny payments for improper admissions. The purpose of the present s
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https://doaj.org/article/dfd8a1afd1bb40339f197b3f0210c5db
Publikováno v:
European Spine Journal. 26:698-707
The objective of this study is to identify the demographic and payer factors that are associated with lumbar fusion surgery.A case-control study was conducted utilizing a population of 38,092 patients from the 2010 Florida Agency for Health Care Admi
Autor:
Alan M. Sear
Publikováno v:
Journal of Healthcare Management. 49:119-133
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 was intended to reduce spending by about $115 billion from the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund over a five-year period. Several studies were funded by the hospital industry that indicated that the actual reducti
Publikováno v:
Spine. 39(23)
Study design A mixed-effects model was used to evaluate the effects specific surgical procedure by International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification, procedure code, patient age, sex, ethnic group, payers for the inpatie
Publikováno v:
Anaesthesia. 56:630-637
Two hundred and seventy-five non-cardiac surgical patients were recruited to determine risk factors associated with the development of postoperative cardiovascular complications during the first year after surgery. Patients underwent ambulatory elect
Publikováno v:
Anaesthesia. 51:1000-1004
We performed a retrospective case-control study to investigate hypertension and admission blood pressure as risk factors for postoperative cardiovascular death. We identified records of 76 patients who had died of a cardiovascular cause within 30 day
Autor:
Alan M. Sear, Thomas N. Chirikos
Publikováno v:
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 28:219-227
This paper examines whether the competitive behavior of hospitals influences the extent to which their productive efficiency deviates from best-practice standards. An index of technical inefficiency is constructed by means of Data Envelopment Analysi
Autor:
Alan M. Sear, John T. Large
Publikováno v:
Health services management research. 18(1)
Between 1992 and 1997, the number of members enrolled in Medicare Health Management Organizations (HMOs) nationwide in the USA more than doubled. During this period, managed care organizations wielded considerable influence over the health care of a
Publikováno v:
Anaesthesia. 59(4)
We have previously demonstrated that the peri-operative measurement of increased serum concentrations of the cardiac markers troponins I and T and creatine kinase-MB can be predictors of major cardiovascular outcomes (including cardiac death) at 3 mo
Publikováno v:
Anaesthesia. 56(7)
Two hundred and seventy-five non-cardiac surgical patients were recruited to determine risk factors associated with the development of postoperative cardiovascular complications during the first year after surgery. Patients underwent ambulatory elect