… We use hospital discharge data from 2010 to 2015 for … Employing hierarchical models, we
identified the patient and … of hospitals across the years is obtained from the Italian Ministry of …

… to a hierarchy of increasing complexity and abstraction [25]. DL is used for image evaluation,
such as cardiac … Databases, to data from claims from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid. …

… benefits for both patients and hospitals [13,14]. … Italian National Institute of Health, our
study is not reported among those needing assessment by the Ethical Committee of the Italian …

… surgery to systemic therapy). Moreover, we introduce the concept of converse therapeutic
hierarchy… to their conversion abilities or adjuvant abilities (ie, from systemic therapy to surgery). …

… A modified HEART procedure is coupled with the DET modelling of the … The hierarchical
task analysis concerned the surgical procedure used at the Urology Department of the Italian …

… In our application, if high-volume centres work in systems of care that more expeditiously
work up, refer and treat patients, then it is possible that our results suffer from lead-time bias …

… were implanted infrequently in our center (<20 cases) and … were carried out by one cardiac
surgeon (FO) together with an … Single hierarchical endpoints reported in these studies and …

… centers of cardiac surgery in 6 European countries (England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy,
… A hierarchical model was formed using unique hospital identification numbers as random …

… includes participation by 30 surgical centers. The ethical committee of the coordinating …
a surgical treatment for HCC enrolled in another Italian national register on liver cancer (Italian …

… The purpose of this study is to explore the readiness of Italian hospitals for Lean Six Sigma
and Quality Performance Improvement (LSS&QPI), with a focus on gender differences. …