We used data from the Study to Evaluate the Prospective Payment System Impact on Small Dialysis Organizations (STEPPS), a study designed to describe trends in dialytic treatment before and after implementation of the expanded bundle in a representative sample of SDO facilities.
Finally, by design, this analysis is limited to the first year of the expanded bundle implementation; future research should assess whether the differential effect diminishes over time by including subsequent years when phasing facilities are subject to increased capitation.
Several recent studies evaluated the efficacy of an expanded ventilator bundle, including daily interruption of sedation, for the reduction of VAP in ICU patients [ 130- 135].
The economic pressure for dialysis providers to work within an expanded composite rate bundle whilst maintaining patient care may be a driver of practice indicator outcomes.
Yet another is the pilot projects on integrated health care, to expand bundled payment strategies and replace the ever-more-expensive fee-for-service arrangements.
In S. americanus, they are mostly club-shaped, often with an expanded apex, and like the pleurocystidia, are arranged in bundles, with brown pigment particles at the base of the bundles.
The stark reality is that a lot of what it comes down to is an expanding mesh of bundled, submarine fiber-optic cable networks snaking across hundreds of thousands of kilometers of ocean floor.
Retrieve an expanded map.
Expanding the bundle will let you see all of the messages in that bundle that have not yet been marked as Done.
Another step ahead in BitTorrent's bid to expand its Bundle business model to all kinds of content, and all kinds of payment options.
