Seasonal variation and hospital utilization for tuberculosis in Russia: hospitals as social care institutions

Atun, Rifat; Samyshkin, Yevgeniy; Drobniewski, Francis; Кузнецов, С. И.; Fedorin, Ivan; Coker, Richard

doi:10.1093/eurpub/cki018

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“…[7] Present study results were consistent with another studies which found that majority of the hospitalized patients were males i.e. 69% [8] and 58.4%. [9] A study [10] reported that 20% of the patients were using safe sputum disposal technique and 46.7% were covering their mouth while coughing and Another study [11] founds that 61% of the patients were covering their mouth while coughing, which was inconsistent with the results of present study.…”

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Distribution of Clinical Variables Responsible for Hospitalization Among Pulmonary Tb Patients: A Retrospective Cross Sectional Study

Sharma¹

2017

WJPPS

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Present study was carried out to assess the distribution of clinical variables responsible for hospitalization among inpatients and outpatients of Pulmonary TB. Non experimental quantitative research approach and retrospective cross sectional design was used and 200 patients were selected by purposive sampling technique (100 from inpatient department and 100 from outpatients department). Tools used for data collection included performa for socio-demographic variables and clinical variables assessment questionnaire. Statistical measure used was Chi square. The results showed that majority of the hospitalized patients were non literate, from Hindu religion, married, having family income between Rs.3000-8000, had their own house, vegetarian and having previous history of hospitalization. Clinical Variables for hospitalization were cough hygiene, compliance to treatment, lung involvement and use of any other drug therapy than DOTS. The study concluded that by identifying the clinical variables, hospitalization and further consequences can be reduced. Nurses can help to reduce hospitalization by educating the patients about variables of hospitalization.

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Distribution of Clinical Variables Responsible for Hospitalization Among Pulmonary Tb Patients: A Retrospective Cross Sectional Study

Sharma¹

2017

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“…It is quite possible that private hospitals in Greece are more efficient than public hospitals because of competitive pressures. However, empirical evidences reported by other studies showed that private hospitals do not appear to be more cost efficient than public hospitals 9 . Rivers and Bae [48] examined hospital competition in major metropolitan areas in the USA.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…If the hospital cost function is misspecified, then hospitals will 9 Even in the USA where most of the health care is privately provided, hospitals do not promote efficiency. Dafny [47] argued that as long as health care providers can earn non-negative profits, there is very little incentive to reduce costs.…”

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Hospital Costs and Unexpected Demand: The Case of Greece

Boutsioli¹

2011

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Demand for hospital inpatient care varies in a consistent way. However, a part of this variability is unpredictable. Hospitals react to this situation by holding standby capacity in order to be prepared to meet unanticipated surges in demand. This paper examines the production responses to unexpected hospital demand on a sample of Greek public hospitals over the period [2001][2002][2003][2004][2005]. The hospital output is measured by the number of inpatient admissions, distinguishing them into elective and emergency. The unexpected demand is measured as the difference between actual emergency admissions and forecasted emergency admissions using an Autoregressive Moving Average model. The results support the hypothesis that production reactions to unexpected demand have a significant impact on hospital costs.

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“…The perceived disease focus (as opposed to holistic focus) of DOTS is problematic in the Russian context where the traditional public health approach to tuberculosis, through institutional structures, attempts to resolve the many concomitant social problems that many patients present with [39,40].…”

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Implementing WHO DOTS strategy in the Russian Federation: stakeholder attitudes

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Baeza²,

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Seasonal variation and hospital utilization for tuberculosis in Russia: hospitals as social care institutions

Abstract: As hospitalizations of tuberculosis patients in colder months fulfil an important social need, shifts to ambulatory care must be carefully managed.

Cited by 42 publications

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Distribution of Clinical Variables Responsible for Hospitalization Among Pulmonary Tb Patients: A Retrospective Cross Sectional Study

Distribution of Clinical Variables Responsible for Hospitalization Among Pulmonary Tb Patients: A Retrospective Cross Sectional Study

Hospital Costs and Unexpected Demand: The Case of Greece

Implementing WHO DOTS strategy in the Russian Federation: stakeholder attitudes

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