For the median-staffed scenario, we modeled the 30-day "post-acute" period as having a linear improvement in utility (health-related quality of life) from 0.73 on admission to 0.79 on discharge from the SNF.
Pharmacist-staffed anticoagulation clinic models point to more consistent monitoring, use of warfarin dosage adjustment algorithms, early recognition of patient risk factors, and patient education as the mechanisms by which they achieve better outcomes than were being achieved through traditional models of care [ 9- 13].
The Franco-German model (FGM) relies on medical-staffed ambulances, following the idea of bringing the hospital to the patient rather than or before bringing the patient to the hospital which obviously often occurs.
3, 4 The Swiss-German physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service (PS-HEMS) model was introduced and adapted in Scandinavia decades ago, as was the use of anaesthesiologists as pre-hospital emergency physicians.
This model of a small, BU-leader-staffed team was the model for many decades, although some companies named a COO to act as an intermediary between the CEO and the BU leaders.
The model controlled covariates including the number of staffed beds, hospital level, and region of hospital located.
Benefiting from a business model that relies on online ticketing instead of staffed ticket counters and curbside pickup instead of bus stations, these companies have added routes across the country and attracted passengers who once shunned bus travel.
However, this effect was no longer significant when WHO region was included in the model, mostly because Eastern Europe has predominantly larger, better-staffed hospitals compared with other WHO regions.
Like many European countries, Serbia has adopted a largely Franco-German model of emergency medicine in which pre-hospital emergency services are provided in the field by physician-staffed ambulances [ 9].
