Over its extensive history, Facility Management (FM) has achieved significant milestones through associations like IFMA, GlobalFM, IWFM, and others, marking standardized [...]

ABSTRACTSHWETA SHAH. Survival, healthcare utilization and costs associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among SEER-Medicare beneficiaries with non-small cel[...]

ABSTRACTLANNY S. INABNIT. Rural Versus Urban Differences in Hospital Readmissions, Inpatient Mortality, and Cost Among COPD Patients. (Under the direction of Dr. AHMED AR[...]

This thesis investigates the impact of different fixed firefighting systems (FFFS) on road tunnel resilience. The road tunnel and fire protection communities are consider[...]

ABSTRACTCHARLES N. DAVIS JR. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in U.S. Veterans: Comorbidity, Ocular Pathology, and Cost of Care (Under the direction of DR. WILLIAM B[...]

Scholars of Latin America's economic trajectory claim that higher domestic transportation costs stand as a significant barrier to trade and economic integration, and are [...]

Asthma is one of the most common chronic and financially burdensome diseases in the United States. Previous studies have focused on comparing healthcare costs between ast[...]

Prescription drug expenditures and utilization are the fastest growing and most widely varying expenditures within Medicaid programs across US states. The passage of the [...]

This dissertation examines the question: Where are privatization’s cost savings? Current literature finds that government privatization does not result in overall cost sa[...]

In an age of cost-consciousness in health care, it is essential that we seek to understand the ramifications of the choices where costs and expected clinical performance [...]