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- Title
- The Value of Prosthetic Rehabilitation for Current and Potential Lower Limb Prosthesis Users
- Author
- Miller, Taavy
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Economics, Medical sciences, Health services administration
- Description
- The goal of this dissertation is to inform clinicians, researchers and policy makers of the potential value of prosthesis intervention for individuals who experience a lower limb amputation. In addition, this dissertation supports the call for mor...
- Title
- The Middle Segment of the Society and Socioeconomic Polarization: A Multidimensional Approach Applied to Colombia
- Author
- QUINONES, MAURICIO
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Economics, Area studies
- Description
- The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate the relevance for Colombia of analyzing the middle segment of the society – as the core concept – and socioeconomic polarization due to its linkage with the middle segment of the society, with a m...
- Title
- S&P 500 Index Reconstitutions: An Analysis of Outstanding Hypotheses
- Author
- Baran, Lindsay
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Business
- Description
- The market reaction to announcements of S&P 500 index changes shows a sustained price increase for added firms and a short-term price decline for newly removed firms. We explore the outstanding hypotheses regarding liquidity, certification, and in...
- Title
- Racial and Gender Concordance: Effects on Utilization of Health Services Among Individuals Enrolled in a Primary Care Case Management Delivery System
- Author
- Smith, III, Galen
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Social sciences--Research
- Description
- Very few studies to date have directly examined the impact of race or gender patient-provider concordance on the utilization of health services. This is particularly noteworthy given the role that the linkage between concordance and health service...
- Title
- Health services use for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in the developing country of Barbados
- Author
- Bushelle-Edghill, Jennifer
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Government policy, Medical sciences
- Description
- Objective: This research examined hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSH) for the population of Barbados during 2003-2008. I examined differences in ACSH rates for females and males at the parish and population levels over ...
- Title
- Health Legacy Foundations and the Pursuit of Charitable Healthcare
- Author
- Niggel, Sabrina
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Social sciences--Research, Medical sciences
- Description
- Endowed with proceeds from transactions involving nonprofit healthcare assets, health legacy foundations (HLFs) embody tremendous potential to improve health and healthcare in communities across the nation. This dissertation represents the culmina...
- Title
- Effects of hydrocephalus on hospital use, associated costs, and access to care among children with spina bifida
- Author
- Radcliff, Elizabeth
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Health services administration
- Description
- Objectives: This study examined hospital resource use, timeliness of surgical repair of spina bifida (SB), and geographical access to hospital care for infants and children with SB. Methods: This was a retrospective, statewide, population-based st...
- Title
- EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES, FX LIQUIDITY RISK, AND CARRY TRADE RETURNS
- Author
- Abankwa, Samuel
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Finance, Industrial management, Economics
- Description
- The dissertation consists of three related topics: FX market-wide liquidity measure and individual currency-pair liquidity co-movements, FX liquidity risk and carry trade returns, and the forward premium puzzle in foreign exchange markets. This is...
- Title
- EFFECT OF PROVIDERS' PROCEDURAL VOLUME COMPLEXITY ON IN-HOSPITAL COMPLICATIONS AND LENGTH OF STAY FOR GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY
- Author
- Kamble, Shital
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Medical sciences
- Description
- Obesity and morbid obesity represent one of the major public health problems in the United States (U.S.) that affects nearly one-third of the adult American population. Gastric bypass (GB) is a complex operation, performed in a high-risk morbidly ...
- Title
- Disentangling the Complex Racial Disparities in Health among Adult Beneficiaries under Medicaid Managed Care: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
- Author
- Sun, Chengxiu
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Health services administration, Public health--Study and teaching
- Description
- There are few studies of the important issue of racial and ethnic disparities in Medicaid managed care settings. This study addresses this deficiency using data collected by telephone interviews from a randomly stratified sample of adults who were...
- Title
- Assessing Convergence of Community Benefit Programs and Community Health Needs Among North Carolina's Tax-Exempt Hospitals
- Author
- Fos, Elmer
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Government policy, Health services administration
- Description
- The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires tax-exempt hospitals to conduct Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) every three years, formulate implementation strategies, and report yearly to the IRS and the public the progress of their work. Th...
- Title
- An Examination of Do Not Resuscitate Compliance: Hospital Ownership and Cost Considerations
- Author
- Porter, Petra
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Government policy, Medical ethics
- Description
- My dissertation sheds light on unwanted treatment in the larger context of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA). I focus specifically on the impact of Catholic hospitals on compliance with do not resuscitate (DNR) orders. Drawing from institu...
- Title
- Adverse Events in Healthcare and the Ability to Improve the Quality and Safety of Patient Care in the Hospital
- Author
- Walsh Koricke, Maureen
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy
- Description
- This dissertation examines the influence of external and internal constraints on adverse event management in hospitals. Using a multilevel organizing framework, in three separate studies I explore the mechanisms of constraint that impact adverse e...
- Title
- A CASE STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY NEGOTIATION IN LARGE, TRANSGENERATIONAL FAMILY BUSINESS
- Author
- Szymanska, Izabela
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Industrial management
- Description
- The current body of research suggests that the relative importance of business objectives and family objectives changes over time in family firms (Miller et al., 2011). As family firms age, company management tends to provide more resources for th...