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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"health care cost"”.
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Mesauring The Effect Of Technological Change In Health Care Cost And Expenditure
… change has a major role in driving up health care cost and expenditure. Yet we are not fully able to know the extent to which technological change affects cost and expenditure and the way new technologies enter the cost or expenditure functions. This paper uses historical data of US …
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Referral behavior in a prepaid group practice
… among these factors. Considering the rise of health care cost and the emerging importance of cooperative relations in the health care field, referral behavior, which has both economic and quality implications, needs to be elucidated. Previous studies, however, fail to derive a systematic …
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Impact of end groups of PLGA on polymer properties and ocular implant performance
… and low patient compliance coupled with high health care cost. Glaucoma is the second leading cause of vision loss after cataract in the world. Approximately 10% of people with glaucoma who receive proper treatment still experience loss of vision. This makes the long-term effectiveness and …
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The Advanced Practice Nurse and Patient-Centered Medical Home: Maintaining Patient Focus, Meeting the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim Through the Electronic Health Record
… Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) in 2009, which incentivized providers to use electronic health records (EHR) for meaningful use (MU); the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) stems from the Act. Research by the National Council on Quality Assurance (NCQA) shows …
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Assessing pharmacist's intervention in supporting the management of Type 2 diabetes in a primary care setting.
… with substantial morbidity, mortality, and health care cost. All patients with diabetes require a high level of clinical care to prevent the development of diabetic complications. The aim of this study was to compare the impact of a pharmaceutical care diabetic clinic within a primary care …
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Access to Care and the Use of Healthcare Services by Women in Rural Cameroon: A Participatory Action Research Study
<p>Women in rural Cameroon do not access health care as timeously and as often as they should. They fail to get screened for common diseases, with the consequence that such diseases are often diagnosed at a very advanced stage. This accounts for the high morbidity and mortality rates as well as low …
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Journal Club: Encouraging Evidence-Based Nursing Practice at the Bedside
… practice had an increase in popularity, in the health care setting, because of concerns over the use of outdated practices. These practices can result in an increase of time the patient remains hospitalized, which generates higher health care cost and may lead to unfavorable patient outcomes. …
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Biomarker Profiling of Appendicitis in Pediatric Patients by Metabolomics, Metallomics and Inflammatory Mediator Profiling
… hospital stay or unnecessary appendectomy. The health care cost related to appendicitis exceeds $680 million per year in the United States alone; in addition, it has the second highest lawsuit rate in pediatric emergency medicine. While there are many studies related to pediatric appendicitis …
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Impact of Dietary Bioactive Components in Chronic Diseases Using Nutrigenomics, Nutriepigenomics, and Metagenomics Approaches
… States demand more than eighty percent of all health care cost. Although typical Western diets--high fat (HF), low fiber and low vegetables-- are frequently associated with increased risk for chronic diseases like obesity, metabolic syndrome (MetS), type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases …
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Modulation of Endothelial Cell Adhesion to Synthetic Vascular Grafts Using Biotinylated Fibronectin in a Dual Ligand Protein System
… performed annually in the US yielding an annual health care cost of over 16 billion dollars. Only five percent of bypasses are repeat operations in spite of the procedures prevalence. Patients facing repeat coronary artery bypass operations often lack transplantable autologous arteries or veins, …
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Eliminating waste in US health care: evaluating accountable care organizations as a model for quality sustainable care
In 2011, the United States spent $2.7 trillion in health care expenditures, accounting for 17.9 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Health care spending increased by 3.9 percent in 2011 and is expected to surpass 20 percent of GDP by 2020. An investigation of national trends in health …
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Health Care Utilization and Expenditures among People with Disabilities: Variations by Disability Spans
… a disproportionate share of publically funded health care services and expenditures. Prescription drug costs are also one of the most significant expenses for those with disabilities and may impose an extensive financial burden on them. However, data on health care costs among them are sparse. …
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Patient Perception of Fall Risk and High Fall Risk Screening Scores
… patients and</p> <p>are the leading driver of health care costs, amounting to over $30 billion each year with</p> <p>projections to double by 2030. Recently, perception was identified as a major component</p> <p>in preventing falls. A dearth of research examines the relationship between a …
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International patent regime for pharmaceuticals from the Paris Convention to the TRIPS Agreement
… to compliment microeconomic policy such as health care cost control. The implementation of international exhaustion to allow parallel importation of patented products during the term of patent is an example in point. It is an issue the TRIPS Agreement does not address and is excluded from …
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Developmental Deregulation and Tumorigenesis Inhibition In 14-3-3Zeta Knockout Mouse
… of death in the United States. Improving cancer care through patient care, research, education and prevention not only saves lives, but reduces health care cost as well. Breast cancer is the most leading cause of cancer incidence and cancer related death in women of the United States. 14-3-3s are …
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Explanatory Power of the Behavior Model of Utilization for Pediatric Asthma Health Care in an Urban Managed Care Setting
… of Utilization played a key role in explaining health services use for pediatric members with asthma in one urban, regional managed care company. The critical role the asthma management program played in promoting the health and well-being of enrolled members was elucidated. Information gleaned …
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Essays in public economics and political economy
… in developed and developing countries, including health insurance regulation, public goods provision and inequality and welfare measurement. The first chapter analyzes the impacts of the managed care backlash in the United States on health care costs in the late 1990s and early 2000s. During the …
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A Machine Learning and Computer Assisted Methodology for Diagnosing Chronic Lower Back Pain on Lumbar Spine Magnetic Resonance Images
… chance he or she returns to work and the more health care cost he or she will require. It is therefore important to identify the cause of back pains as early as possible in order to improve the chance of patient rehabilitation. The speediness of early diagnosis can depend on many factors …
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Conservative kidney management program components in a resource limited setting: South Africa
… Many patients with ESKD are managed in Primary Health Care (PHC) settings with either no access to Palliative Care (PC) and/or prompt referral. There is a need for a standardised program that is well informed by policy to improve the delivery of care for patients with ESKD, especially those who …
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Self-reported perceptions of factors influencing error reporting in one Nigerian hospital: a descriptive cross-sectional study
… of medical errors has become a priority in healthcare. Medical errors occur from virtually all processes in the delivery of healthcare and while most have little risk for patient harm, some do result in injury, increased health care cost, lost income, decreased productivity, disability, …
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