Establishment of regional ICU centers, centralization of certain surgical procedures and availability of certain therapeutic interventions, in addition to logistic problems, causes an increase in inter-hospital transports.
This meant, together with the further development of the standing army, a certain degree of centralization, within the limits of an essentially lordly state.
Some features require a certain level of centralization.
However, in the real world, many scenarios need to be safeguarded by a certain extent of centralization, especially when applied in the financial sector.
However, an ASIC would change the mining equation entirely, resulting in a certain amount of centralization as big players – including Bitmain – created higher barrier to entry for casual miners.
Provider volume is often a central topic in debates about centralization of procedures.
The specific question as to the potential significant improvement in patient survival by centralization of breast cancer treatment in hospitals with a certain minimum annual volume was answered by, inter alia, the landmark study by Roohan et al. [ 8].
In this group of patients, end range loading maneuvers are used to identify a characteristic pattern of "centralization" of symptoms when loading maneuvers are applied in a certain direction, and "peripheralization" of symptoms when loading maneuvers are applied in another direction (typically the direction opposite of that which produced centralization).
This process suggests a centralization of intensive care may be occurring even without central planning.
Centralization of gastric cancer surgery is currently implemented in the UK, Sweden, Finland, and in certain regions in the Netherlands.
