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PPS
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PPS

(Packets Per Second) The measurement of activity in a packet-switched network. For example, local area networks (LANs) and the Internet break all data, no matter what their content, into individual packets before transmitting them. Each packet contains source and destination addresses, and routers are rated for performance by the number of packets they can forward in one second based on the destination address. See packet switching, router and traffic.



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Professional staffing levels decreased because of the implementation of the nursing home Prospective Payment System (PPS) and associated rate cuts, but increased under the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 2000's rate increases, according to a recent report in Health Services Research.
Study suggests, but doesn't prove, negative PPS effect on quality by Edwards, Douglas J. / Nursing Homes
The issue we reviewed carried an article on a new definition of homebound issued by the Health Care Financing Administration, an update on the Prospective Payment System, and a section on outcome-based quality monitoring (QBQM).
Homecare DIRECTION targets burgeoning industry of homecare providers by The Newsletter on Newsletters
nbsp;residents whose care was paid for by Medicare fell for the first time in recent history under Medicare's new prospective payment system (PPS), according to data reported in the recently released Nursing Home Statistical Yearbook, 1999, published by the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (
Medicare pays for fewer SNF residents by Contemporary Long Term Care
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