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Occupational Accidents in Hungary: Efficiency or Cost-Efficiency?
Ten years of data analysis, observations and research work preceded the recently completed study, “Expenditures and economic efficiency of the hugarian accident insurance practice in an international context” in Hungary, which highlights the characteristics and challenges of the Hungarian occupational accident medical care practices. For comparisons...
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From Risk Management to Patient Safety Management
After quality management made its entry into the healthcare system at the beginning of the 1990s, triggered by the commodification of the medical and care sector, the year 2000 saw the establishment of risk management with the aim to lower complication and loss rates. For several years now, movement and further development has been recognisable. The...
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Rational Use Of Energy And Environment: The Culture For A Winning Sustainability
The University Hospital Authority St. Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic of Bologna is organised into seven departments of integrated activities (DAI), including 91 operational units and is equipped with 1,758 beds with a staff of 5,355 employees. 72,000 hospitalisations are carried out per year and 4,000,000 specialist services are made for outsiders. Overall...
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Putting The Cross-Border Healthcare Directive Into Hospital Practice
In June 2006, the Council of Europe published its Conclusions on Common Values and Principles in EU Health Systems which called for an initiative on cross-border healthcare to ensure clarity about the rights and entitlements applying for EU citizens seeking treatment abroad. But at end of 2006, the Directive on services in the Single Market was adopted,...
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IT @ 2012 Winners
IT @ 2012 Winners 1st Place: Successful Development and Implementation of a Primary Healthcare Information System (Presented by Ian de Vega) 2nd Place: Individualised Patient Disease Diagnosis and Treatment through Whole Genome Sequencing and Comparison (presented by Peter van der Spek) 3rd Place: eyeSmart EMR - Intelligent IT Solution for...
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The Austrian Healthcare System
Facts and Figures Austria is a democratic republic situated in central Europe, which covers a territory about 84,000 square kilometres. It has nine provinces including Vienna as its capital. About 8.5 million inhabitants live there and demographic forecasts predict that the population will grow to more than nine million by 2030. Since 1955 Austria...
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Active Surveillance Testing (AST) for MRSA Carriage
The issue of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) is one that commands increasing public, professional and governmental attention worldwide. The success of interventions to control avoidable HAIs, including infections associated with meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), is evidenced by recent data from the European Antibiotic Resistance...
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Usefulness of Biomarkers in the Clinical Decision Making Process in Sepsis
Why are Clinicians using Biomarkers more Frequently? The criteria to define the presence of sepsis (Levy et al. 2003) as well as to evaluate its clinical severity are not satisfactory since the signs and symptoms of sepsis are poorly specific and highly sensitive. Even more difficult than the diagnosis, is the monitoring of infection response to...
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Healthy Hospital Personnel
A hospital and its services, from nursing staff and doctors to management, is a business in which the daily concern of many employees is the health of their patients. Einsiedeln hospital recognises the equal importance of the welfare of its staff and has implemented a peer project as part of its quality management system. This type of project is...
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Interview: Manfred Klocke, CEO of the Ecclesia Group
Firstly, Tell Us a Bit About Ecclesia. What does the Company do and What are its Main Objectives? The Ecclesia Group as international insurance broker is representative of its clients' interests vis-à-vis the insurance industry. The company, which is independent of banks and insurers, belongs with its 1,300 employees to the major players in Europe,...
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