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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"HMO"”.
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Oral Health Needs of Virginia Schoolchildren by HMO Regions
… oral health status and dental treatment needs by HMO regions in Virginia. Methods: The Division of Dental Health (DDH), Virginia Department of Health (VDH), completed the 1999 Virginia Oral Health Needs Assessment (VSOHNA) with the cooperation of the Virginia Department of Education. The survey …
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Factors that Impact Readmission for Medicare and Medicaid HMO Inpatients
Background: Hospital readmission is an outcome associated with failure of treatment because readmitted patients are still sick despite recent inpatient treatment. The specific 30-day period is critical because the U.S. Government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services uses a 30-day period for …
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Towards a design of HMO, an integrated hardware microcode optimizer
<p>"This paper discusses an algorithm for optimizing the density and parallelism of microcoded routines in micro-programmable machines. Besides presenting the algorithm itself, this research also analyzes the algorithm's uses, design integration problems, architectural requirements, and …
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The non-profit health maintenance organization (HMO) as developer : development options for an urban health center
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1985.
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Principal-agent, risk, and market structure effects on health maintenance organization choice of payment method for primary care physicians
This research analyzes determinants of HMO compensation (salary, fee-for-service, and capitation) for primary care physicians. First, a theoretical model is constructed to analyze physician preferences for fee-for-service versus capitation based on payment risk characteristics. The analysis shows …
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Impact of formula additives on immune and gastrointestinal development in the piglet
… (NT), and human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) could stimulate the development of the neonatal immune and gastrointestinal systems. Dietary βG are able to boost the natural defense mechanism by stimulating both innate (Descroix et al., 2006) and adaptive immune responses (Akramiene et al., …
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Essays on Markets and Health Care
… Much prior research indicates that HMO patients typically experience shorter lengths of stay in the hospital than those covered by other forms of health insurance, all else equal. Much of that work may suffer from bias resulting from a failure to account for the endogenaity of HMO …
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A nutriceutical approach to inhibiting H1N1 influenza infection
… especially human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) are also thought contribute to antimicrobial activity. Human milk containsa large variety of oligosaccharides, some of which are present in sufficient concentration to potentially function as receptor decoys for respiratory pathogens. To begin …
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Essays on prescription drug benefits in Medicare managed care
… beneficiaries using data from the Medicare HMO program. I then use the utility parameter estimates to explore other questions of interest relating to the elderly's demand for prescription drug benefits. In Chapter 1, I study the question of how much Medicare beneficiaries value prescription …
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The Competitive Effects of Health Maintenance Organizations
… effect of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) on traditional providers of health care as a mechanism for cost control. First, a theoretical foundation for addressing the issue is provided. Three models of health care providers are developed: a dynamic model of an HMO; a model of a …
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Metabolism of human milk oligosaccharides by infant-associated bifidobacteria
… infant, known as Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs). Fascinatingly, the adaptation to utilise HMO as a substrate by bifidobacteria is almost exclusively reserved for infant-associated species, and even more fascinatingly, these species have developed strikingly varying strategies for the …
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Effects Of Managed Care On The Health And Health-Care Of The Non-Elderly With Diabetes
… nationally representative survey, I compared 484 HMO patients, 356 OMC patients, with 161 patients (who presented with diabetes) in terms of access to, satisfaction with, utilization of care (including diabetes care), and health status, to evaluate the quality of health care enrollees receive and …
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Health Status, Goal Attainment, and Number of Visits of Knee Impaired Physical Therapy Patients: A Comparison of HMO vs Fee-For Service Insurance Plans
… patients from health Maintenance organizations (HMOs) and fee-for-service (FFS) plans. The purpose of this retrospective study was to describe differences between HMO and FFS patients in the knee impaired population, on three parameters: (1) attainment of physical therapy goals, as determined by …
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Organizational and physician characteristics predicting practice style: A study of outpatient care in a large group practice
… I compared the outpatient resources used for HMO vs. FFS patients during episodes of acute illness when the HMO and FFS patients being compared were treated by the same physicians. I also examined whether the setting--a free-standing branch clinic or the hospital-based main clinic--where …
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Dietary Manipulation at Pre-Conception and During Development Influence Metabolism and Gut Microbiota in Rats
… 1) the impact of human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) supplementation on health status in weanling rats; 2) the impact of a paternal high protein (HP) diet on offspring metabolic health; 3) whether supplementation of a methyl donor cocktail (HF/S+M) before conception attenuates the deleterious …
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Influence of Organizational, Operational, Financial AndEnvironmental Factors on Hospitals' Adoption of Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems for Improving Patient Safety: A Resource Dependence Approach
… index and the environmental characteristic of HMO penetration rate had a positive effect on management's adoption decisions. The operational characteristic excess capacity, the organizational characteristic community orientation, the financial characteristic of operating income per admission, …
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Synthesis and Properties of Ortho-Bridged Triarylmethyl Compounds
… by ('13)C NMR as is expected based on the HMO calculation.
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