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Improving Local and Community Care for Older People
Helen Tucker, Researcher Independent Consultant & Vice-President Community Hospitals Association, UK.
The challenge for health services in the UK is to create capacity in the community for the increasing number of older people, so that they can be cared for close to home.... |
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Healthcare 2014: Embracing the New Normal
In our conversations with stakeholders – physicians, hospital and health system administrators, health plan executives, board members, and government officials – there is one constant theme: change and uncertainty are the new normal. |
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IFC invests $255 million in Rede D’Or to expand access to healthcare services in Brazil
This expansion program financed by the facility will increase hospital beds by 1,800, enabling a reach of about 525,000 more patients per year. In addition, Rede D’Or will train and create employment for 12,000 more people, 75 percent of whom are expected to be women, thus helping improve and professionalize healthcare standards in Brazil. |
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Data-Driven Approach for Assessing Utility of Medical Tests Using Electronic Medical Records
The information content was defined in terms of the entropy of the expected value of the test related to a given outcome. A kernel density classifier was used to estimate the necessary distributions. To validate the method, we used... |
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Local and Community Care
