Zero-inflated nonnegative continuous (or semicontinuous) data arise frequently in
biomedical, economical, and ecological studies. Examples include substance abuse …

This paper is a review of the literature on hospitals privatization to assess the influence of
privatization on access to medical care. The results are used to complete further analysis on …

Only You, Your Doctor, and Many Others May Know Page 1 Sweeney L. Only You, Your Doctor,
and Many Others May Know. Technology Science. 2015092903. September 29 …

Importance Critical access hospitals (CAHs) provide inpatient care to Americans living in
rural communities. These hospitals are at high risk of falling behind with respect to quality …

A key issue facing the United States is how to structure rural health care delivery. In research
and policy discussions of this challenge, a core focus has been the appropriate role for rural …

Objective To evaluate the distribution of births among United States (US) hospitals in 2008
as part of the background for the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal …

Two-part random effects models (Olsen and Schafer, Tooze et al.) have been applied to
repeated measures of semi-continuous data, characterized by a mixture of a substantial …

Background and Purpose—The critical access hospital (CAH) designation was established
to provide rural residents with local access to emergency and inpatient care. CAHs …

Background Decentralised acute care services have, through the establishment of
municipality acute wards (MAWs), been launched in Norway. The aim is to provide treatment …

The Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) contains incentives for hospitals to
improve efficiency by placing them at financial risk to earn a positive margin on services …