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Within the English National Health Service (NHS), a Healthcare Resource Group (HRG) is a grouping consisting of patient events that have been judged to consume a similar level of resource. For example, there are a number of different knee-related procedures that all require similar levels of resource; they may all be assigned to one HRG.
HRG is a glycoprotein of 70-75kDa present at a relatively high concentration in the plasma of vertebrates.The primary structure of human HRG is predicted to be a 507 amino acid multidomain polypeptide consisting of two cystatin-like regions at the N-terminus, a histidine-rich region (HRR) flanked by proline-rich regions (PRR), and a C-terminal domain. [10]
HRG Engineering Company, a British car manufacturer; HRG Group, an American holding company; Healthcare Resource Group, within the English healthcare system; Henley Residents Group, an English political party
Neuregulin 1, or NRG1, is a gene of the epidermal growth factor family that in humans is encoded by the NRG1 gene. [3] [4] NRG1 is one of four proteins in the neuregulin family that act on the EGFR family of receptors.
The Patients Association is an independent charity operating in the UK that aims to improve patients' experience of healthcare. [1] Established in 1963, it became a registered charity in 1991. [ 2 ] The Patients Association works with patients directly: they are its members and supporters, and also the people who benefit from the organisation's ...
Using NTDB data from patients admitted to trauma centers between January 1 and December 1, 2007, three cohorts were created. The first cohort included patients with blunt multisystem or blunt mechanism traumas with an Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) score ≥ 3 in two or more regions including the head, face, neck, thorax, abdomen, spine, and ...
A nocturnist is a hospitalist who typically covers the twelve-hour shift at night and admits patients as well as receives calls about already admitted patients. A proceduralist is generally defined as a hospitalist who primarily does procedures in the hospital such as central venous catheter insertions, lumbar punctures , and paracenteses .
The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) was passed by the United States Congress in 1990 as an amendment to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990.Effective on December 1, 1991, this legislation required many hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospice providers, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and other health care institutions to provide information about ...