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utilization

Use Managed care The use or amount of usage per unit population, of health care services; the pattern of use of a service or type of service in a specified time, usually expressed in rate per unit of population-at-risk for a given period–eg, number of hospital admissions/yr/1,000 persons enrolled in an HMO. See Hospital utilization, Overutilization, Underutilization.

utilization

(ūt″ĭl-ĭ-zā′shŏn) [L. utilis, usable]

In health care, the consumption of services or supplies, such as the number of office visits a person makes per year with a health care provider, the number of prescription drugs taken, or the number of days a person is hospitalized.

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In terms of NCA utilization, cash disbursements amounted to P111.3 billion, while P15.6 billion were outstanding checks.

January N.C.A. down by nearly half due to reenacted budget

On average, lab utilization decreased by 0.09 UPPD each month per hospital following the intervention.

Optimizing laboratory test utilization in long-term acute care hospitals

He felt the bureaucracy has failed to overcome its incapacity to pace up the funds utilization that in turn would speed up development process in the province.

PTI led KPK govt fails to initiate any mega project

Mohammad Anwar demanded the Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to improve public financial management in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa adding that the very fact that every department is having different utilization figures is the sign of poor financial management and coordination among the departments.

CGPA decries KP Govt varying utilization figures of ADP 2014-15

A pre-survey was developed to identify utilization tracking and reporting practices.

Improving utilization reports

Data on the capacity utilization rate of manufacturing industry, which are being compiled and disseminated by Central Bank as of January 2010, are calculated based on the responses of the local units operating in the manufacturing industry to the "Business Tendency Survey (BTS)" of CB.

CAPACITY UTILIZATION RATE UP TO 74.6% -Capacity utilization rate of manufacturing industry was up 6 pts to 74.6% in January 2011, Central Bank said

Today in healthcare, utilization review is focused on very high-risk and high-cost pregnancies, surgeries and hospitalizations as determined by payer experience and data analysis.

Running workers' compensation utilization reviews: there is significant evidence that the increases in workers' comp medical costs are being driven by medical utilization rather than price

* Increasing capacity utilization with flexible resource allocation

NAS virtualization simplifies file storage management

In the final week of the year, the capability utilization rate was 87.5 percent, slightly ahead of the annual average.

American Steel production declines in '05

The capacity utilization decreased by 0.6 percentage points, as compared to the first quarter 2004.

Swedish capacity utilization down in Q1 2005

The dental profession has the responsibility to provide guidance to all agencies, organizations and governmental bodies--such as state dental boards and legislatures--that have an interest in or responsibility and authority for, decisions on utilization, education and supervision of allied dental personnel.

ADA Task Force on workforce models

Faced with these constraints on teaching space and college resources, CPCC opted for creative course scheduling, attempting to maximize space utilization throughout the institution.