Publications by authors named "B Catchlove"

Health and hospital reform is not new on the international stage. Increasing demand for health care services due to aging populations and the increased burden of chronic disease, continued advances in medical technology (including the rapid expansion of information systems) and ever growing community expectations mean that the health care expenditure of most health systems is growing at a rate greater than GDP (OECD 2008). Most countries appear to be grappling with how they can create a sustainable health system for the future.

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Through their clearly defined gatekeeper role, GPs have considerable market power to influence the flow of revenue associated with referrals and prescriptions. For this reason, and because the whole healthcare industry is going through a transition from a cottage industry to a more commercially sophisticated structure, corporatisation of general practice is on the increase. If properly and ethically run, corporatised general practices can provide high-quality, efficient primary care.

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There is, as yet, no satisfactory set of Diagnosis Related Groups to measure the casemix and consumption of hospital resources in the care of newborn infants. To obtain further information, infants less than 28 days when admitted to the Royal Children's Hospital and Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne were analysed. Both Refined Diagnosis Related Groups and Pediatric Modified Diagnosis Groups were used.

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