As competition intensifies, service quality, patient satisfaction and efficient resource management are turning into important indicators for healthcare delivery performance [ 4, 5].
Hence, studies conducted in Germany confirm the results of international studies: intensified outpatient services do not contribute to a reduction of psychiatric treatment costs but to increased efficiency of psychiatric treatment.
The team involved in the intensified medical service-focussed programme was a senior physician with a dedicated effort to the programme of 35%, an infectious disease fellow (75%), a pharmacist (12%), and a data manager (6%) corresponding to yearly personnel costs of 102,950 €.
Alternatively, if there are sites with under-utilized case manger staff time, it might be possible to intensify CM services to clients and potentially generate a larger number of successful exits with existing staff levels.
Security services intensified what campaigners had already described as a crackdown unprecedented in recent years.
The conclusion is that older cancer patients' utilisation of specialist care may be reduced by intensified primary healthcare services.
As competition has intensified for food service accounts, the promotional allowances and other money paid by manufacturers have grown significantly.
As a strike by thousands of doctors and medical students intensified on Monday, services in dozens of hospitals across the country were disrupted.
For the Internet-addicted, the problem is further intensified by "lifecasting" services like Twitter and the Google-owned Jaiku, which let people use their cellphones to fire off Haiku-length text notices, both profound and mundane.
Many industries are suffering from hastened commoditization of products and services, intensified price wars and contracting markets.
It would be more feasible to target fewer participants in each governorate in benefit of more intensified focus, better services and follow-up.
