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  2. Hospital readmission - Wikipedia

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    Different time frames have been used for research purposes, the most common being 30-day, 90-day, and 1-year readmissions. Some researchers start counting days from the date of discharge from the index admission, while other researchers begin counting from the day of a procedure or operation during the index admission.

  3. Length of stay - Wikipedia

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    A common statistic associated with length of stay is the average length of stay (ALOS), a mean calculated by dividing the sum of inpatient days by the number of patients admissions with the same diagnosis-related group classification. A variation in the calculation of ALOS can be to consider only length of stay during the period under analysis.

  4. Medicare (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Medicare amendment (July 30, 1965). Former president Harry S. Truman (seated) and his wife, Bess, are on the far right.. Originally, the name "Medicare" in the United States referred to a program providing medical care for families of people serving in the military as part of the Dependents' Medical Care Act, which was passed in 1956. [7]

  5. Early postnatal hospital discharge - Wikipedia

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    The average length of postnatal hospital stay for vaginal delivery ranged from 0.5 days (Egypt) to 6.2 days (Ukraine) in 71 countries whereas cesarean delivery ranged from 2.5 to 9.3 days in 30 countries. [35]

  6. Diagnosis-related group - Wikipedia

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    Diagnosis-related group (DRG) is a system to classify hospital cases into one of originally 467 groups, [1] with the last group (coded as 470 through v24, 999 thereafter) being "Ungroupable".

  7. Fact sheet - Wikipedia

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    Jetstar Boeing 787 fact sheet. A factsheet or fact sheet, also called fact file, is a single-page document containing essential information about a product, substance, service or other topic. Factsheets are frequently used to provide information to an end user, consumer or member of the public in concise, simple language. They generally contain ...

  8. History of the Jews in Hungary - Wikipedia

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    The plan was to use 45 cattle cars per train, 4 trains a day, to deport 12,000 Jews to Auschwitz every day from the countryside, starting in mid-May; this was to be followed by the deportation of Jews of Budapest from about July 15. Just before the deportations began, the Vrba-Wetzler Report reached the Allied officials.

  9. Chronic kidney disease - Wikipedia

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    Hypocalcemia results from 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D 3 deficiency (caused by high FGF-23 and reduced kidney mass) [30] and the skeletal resistance to the calcemic action of parathyroid hormone. [31] Osteocytes are responsible for the increased production of FGF-23, which is a potent inhibitor of the enzyme 1-alpha-hydroxylase (responsible for the ...