Authors:Matthew W. Lewis, Aimee Bower, Mishaw T. Cuyler,
Publisher: RAND Corporatio
Keywords: support, hospitals, combat, strategies, equipping, new
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 1969-12-31
ISBN-10: 0833049968
ISBN-13: 9780833049964

Combat Support Hospitals, when not deployed, keep a partial set of equipment at home station with the remainder in long-term storage, a strategy that has created maintenance and obsolescence challenges. This briefing describes a new strategy for configuring home station equipment sets and proposes that deploying CSHs eliminate much of the unit-owned equipment currently in long-term storage, actions that will sharply reduce total equipment costs. From the Publisher:The U.S. Army uses Combat Support Hospitals (CSHs) — mobile, deployable hospitals housed in tents and expandable containers

Author: Herman Menck
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: management, design, registries, cancer, central
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1994-05-01
ISBN-10: 3718605791
ISBN-13: 9783718605798

Practical issues, including the use of computers, selection and training of professional, administrative and technical staff are included, along with quality control procedures, essential to assure the integrity of information kept by the registry. Follow-up procedures, sources of population data, calculation and interpretation of incidence rates and survival rates, and the differences between case-control studies and cohort studies (based on registry data) are also described. Prevention and control applications, and legal issues relative to the confidentiality of information in the data files

Authors:Melony E. Sorbero, Donna O. Farley, Soeren Mattke
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: care, final, report, inpatient, teamwork, measures, effective, outcome
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833043153
ISBN-13: 9780833043153

The Department of Defense (DoD) has been one of the leaders in actions to improve teamwork, which it has pursued with the goal of achieving safer care and reducing adverse events for patients served by its military hospitals. DoD and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) have worked together to develop tools to improve teamwork in delivering care in order to achieve safer outcomes for patients. In 2004, AHRQ modified its Patient Safety Evaluation Center contract with RAND to add an analytic study to identify and test measures that have the potential to capture improvements in t

Author: OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and D
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Keywords: china, surveys, economic, oecd
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2010-02-03
ISBN-10: 9264076670
ISBN-13: 9789264076679

This 2010 edition of OECD’s periodic review of China’s economy finds that China’s spectacular expansion has continued in recent years, making for impressive improvements in living standards. The slowdown associated with the global financial and economic crisis was contained by massive fiscal and monetary policy stimulus, which has boosted domestic demand. This survey includes chapters on recent achievements and prospects, monetary policy, financial reforms, product market regulation and competition, inequality, the labour market, old-age security and the health care system.