The CMS' Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program is the policy vanguard of the transition from process to outcome measures for hospital reporting and payment. However, one consequence of the effort ...

Knowledge on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) risk factors may help inform public health authorities on high-risk populations, researchers suggest. “Although existing evidence from community-based ...

Opportunities and threats are the "O" and "T" in a SWOT analysis. These are factors in the external environment beyond a firm's control that could help or hinder its plans and strategies. The ...

When a company looks at its demographic environment, it focuses attention on the people who are most likely to buy a product or service. This is good from the marketing standpoint because it means the ...

On a global level, religious groups expand and shrink due to a mix of factors. Demographic factors, such as age structure, fertility and mortality (or life expectancy), tell us whether people in ...

Extinction risk in natural populations depends on stochastic factors that affect individuals, and is estimated by incorporating such factors into stochastic models 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Stochasticity can ...

The reliability of a prostate cancer-screening test may be compromised by lifestyle and demographic factors, according to a new study. Published in the January 15 ...

The Pareto principle in oncology: How a minority of countries account for the major share of Latin American contributions to ASCO Annual Meetings. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO ...