The database includes patient information on demography, comorbidities, living conditions prior to stroke, severity and type of stroke, whether the patient was admitted to a hospital, type of hospital ward admitted to, length of stay, and types and counts of services and therapies provided to the patient.
In order to compare services either cross-sectionally or to examine trends over time a simple count of service items, while easy to interpret, suffers from the weakness of lack of comparability.
Whilst relatively crude, this pragmatic approach [ 8] provides much more detailed information than is available through the standard UK system of provider-reported "reference costs.â Despite our efforts to standardise the collection of costing data, there may be some differences in the counting of service costs of their attribution to the different cost types.
Ultimately, a jury acquitted Mr. Bruno of six counts of honest services fraud.
Instead, he was convicted of five counts of honest services fraud, one of bribery and one of obstruction.
Alqudsi faces a maximum 10 years for each of his seven counts of providing services with the intention of supporting hostile acts.
But it may well reverse the conviction of Mr. Bruno, the former majority leader of the New York Senate who was sentenced last month to two years in federal prison after being convicted of two counts of honest services fraud.
In December, a jury found Mr. Bruno, once one of the most powerful officials in state government, guilty on two counts of honest services fraud in a case that cast a harsh light on the former senator's commingling of business and politics.
Mr. Bruno, a Republican, was convicted on two counts of honest services fraud in December after a monthlong trial that laid bare a culture of self-dealing in the State Senate, where he served as the majority leader before retiring in 2008 amid a federal investigation.
For maintaining a line said to be too thin between his public and private lives, Bruno was convicted on two counts of "honest services" fraud.
Yee is charged with "conspiracy to deal firearms without a license and to illegally import firearms" as well as six counts of honest services fraud.
