The hospitality consumer

Hospitals are the biggest consumers of health system budgets and hence measuring hospital performance by quantitative or qualitative accessible and reliable indicators is crucial. This review aimed to categorize and present a set of indicators for evaluating overall hospital performance.

17p vishanshan 27-06-2024 2 1   Download

The increasing cancer burden calls for reliably assessed changes in the hospitalizations for tumors over time and space in China. This study evaluated trends in hospitalization rate, in-hospital mortality, length of stay (LOS), and medical costs for malignant and benign neoplasms.

8p vikoch 27-06-2024 2 1   Download

In this paper the concept of service quality in supply chain has been investigated in the health system. This article aims to fill the gap in the literature by providing evidence about patients’ satisfaction and loyalty regarding the health-care they experienced from Indonesia private hospitals by supply chain strategy. This research was conducted using the data from the consumers who received services from 4 different private hospitals in Surabaya, Indonesia.

11p longtimenosee06 27-03-2024 2 2   Download

Part 1 of ebook "The analytic hospitality executive: Implementing data analytics in hotels and casinos" provides readers with contents including: building a strategic analytic culture in hospitality and gaming; data management for hospitality and gaming; data visualization; from reactive to proactive decision making - advanced analytics in action; analytics for operations; analytics for marketing;...

226p dangsovu 20-10-2023 12 3   Download

Part 1 of ebook "Understanding the hospitality consumer" provides readers with content including: setting the context for the study of hospitality consumption; consuming hospitality services; the key perspectives seen as complementary to an understanding of hospitality consumer behaviour; social and cultural influences on hospitality consumer behaviour; the influence of reference groups on hospitality consumers;...

152p lytamnguyet 04-08-2023 4 3   Download

Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Understanding the hospitality consumer" provides readers with content including: understanding the hospitality consumer in contemporary society and beyond; postmodern consumers of hospitality services; researching contemporary hospitality behaviour; researching contemporary hospitality behaviour; hospitality implications of the revolution in consumption;...

118p lytamnguyet 04-08-2023 3 3   Download

The Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital launched an innovative Technology-Based Patient and Family Engagement Consult Service in 2014. This paper describes our initial experience with this service, characterizes health-related needs of families of hospitalized children, and details the technologies recommended to promote engagement and meet needs.

8p visteverogers 24-06-2023 4 2   Download

Improving the patient experience has become an essential component of any healthcare system’s performance metrics portfolio. In this study, we developed a machine learning model to predict a patient’s response to the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey’s “Doctor Communications” domain questions while simultaneously identifying most impactful providers in a network.

10p vighostrider 25-05-2023 5 2   Download

Patients increasingly use patient-reported outcomes (PROs) to self-monitor their health status. Visualizing PROs longitudinally (over time) could help patients interpret and contextualize their PROs. The study sought to assess hospitalized patients’ objective comprehension (primary outcome) of text-only, non-graph, and graph visualizations that display longitudinal PROs.

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Part 1 of ebook "Marketing communications in tourism and hospitality: Concepts, strategies and cases" presents the following content: positioning marketing communications for tourism and hospitality; communications theory and applications; the marketing communications environment; consumer roles in marketing communications; marketing communications and organisational strategy; segmentation, targeting and positioning; marketing communications planning;...

225p damtuyetha 09-01-2023 14 7   Download

Part 1 of ebook "Consumer psychology of tourism, hospitality and leisure (Volume 3)" presents the following content: attitudes, emotions and information processing; motivation and learning; consumption systems; decision and choice; a duality in vacation decision making; effects of holiday packaging on tourist decision making: some preliminary results;...

192p damtuyetha 09-01-2023 9 3   Download

Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Consumer psychology of tourism, hospitality and leisure (Volume 3)" presents the following content: experience and satisfaction; market segmentation; attraction and loyalty; image and interpretation; aristotelian ethical values within a tourism hospitality industry context;...

144p damtuyetha 09-01-2023 6 3   Download

Part 1 of ebook "Food safety in the hospitality industry" provide readers with content about: food legislation, consumers and the hospitality sector; European foodstuffs law and the consumer; food legislation and enforcement in EU member states; trends and developments in European food law;... Please refer to the ebook for details!

115p duonghanthienbang 05-10-2022 8 4   Download

Part 1 of ebook "Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism" provide readers with content about: introduction marketing for hospitality and tourism; service characteristics of hospitality and tourism marketing; the marketing environment; the role of marketing in strategic planning; marketing information systems and marketing research;... Please refer to part 1 of the ebook for details!

315p tieuvulinhhoa 22-09-2022 11 4   Download

Emergency department (ED) care of older patients is often complex. Geriatric ED guidelines can help to meet this challenge. However, training requirements, the use of time-consuming tools for comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA), a lack of golden standard to identify the frail patients, and the weak evidence of positive outcomes of using CGA in EDs pose barriers to introduce the guidelines.

8p viisaacnewton 25-04-2022 12 5   Download

Feature engineering is a time consuming component of predictive modeling. We propose a versatile platform to automatically extract features for risk prediction, based on a pre-defined and extensible entity schema. The extraction is independent of disease type or risk prediction task. We contrast auto-extracted features to baselines generated from the Elixhauser comorbidities.

9p vikentucky2711 26-11-2020 10 1   Download

DEHP (di-ethyl hexyl phthalate) is widely used as a plasticizer and it adversely affects humans. In this study, one of the promising DEHP-degrading strain T28 had been selected among isolated pure bacterial strain from rubbish landfill soil near the hospital area, Patna. The bacterial strain T28 was capable of consuming DEHP as a sole source of carbon and energy. By analysing morphological, biophysical, biochemical characteristics, gram staining technique followed by the analysis of 16s rRNA phylogenetic studies, the strain was identified as Bacillus subtilis (Genbank Accession no. CPO230367).

9p caygaocaolon6 30-07-2020 17 1   Download

The paradigm shift in the locus of control in many health systems brought about by consumerism, makes it imperative for consumers of health services to be involved in setting agenda for quality improvement.. This study sought to identify service quality gaps in a public hospital using the clients’ judgement.

6p tocectocec 19-05-2020 9 0   Download

Most fetal defects are associated with genetic and environmental causes, among them, exposure of pregnant women to intensive pesticide use. Agribusiness is the economic basis of the state of Mato Grosso, the largest consumer of pesticides of all Brazilian states.

7p videshiki2711 21-02-2020 29 1   Download

Twenty four bulls presented for castration to Department of Surgery and Radiology, Bombay Veterinary College Parel, BSDPHA affiliated hospital and Department of TVCC, COVAS, Udgir were studied for comparative evaluation of casting method and sanding method of castration in bulls. All the animals were sedated with Xylazine @0.02mg/kg BW, IM 30 minutes before castration. In 12 animals traditional casting method was applied for castration and in other 12 animals standing method of castration was used. The standing castration was performed by fixation of animals in Travis.

4p cothumenhmong1 08-12-2019 9 1   Download