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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"office visits"”.
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Onsite Integrative Clinics: Acupuncture, Positive Patient Outcomes, and Frequency of Provider Office Visits
… (pre/post acupuncture treatments) and provider visits (pre/post acupuncture treatments); and (4) relationship between acupuncture and provider visit costs within an integrative healthcare system. Rationale/Conceptual Basis/Background. Science of Symptom Management and Relationship-Centered Care …
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An Economic Analysis of Secure Messaging between Patients and Providers
… secure messages can substitute for face-to-face office visits. To answer this question, two demand equations were estimated and outpatient copayment was used as a key factor. A quasi-conditional maximum likelihood estimator was used as it is robust when there are distributional misspecifications …
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Essays on the determinants of healthcare utilization
… respond to changes in copays for physician office visits using data from over 1500 employer-sponsored insurance plans with 1.5 million enrollees. Within our sample, there are 171 separate changes in copays for physician office visits, and we use a difference-in-difference methodology to …
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Impact of Diabetes on Colorectal Cancer Outcomes
… patient location, and frequency of physician office visits. For survival analysis additional treatment variables -- chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery were included. For stage at diagnosis of CRC, diabetes showed a significant inverse association (OR 0.92; 95% CI 0.85-1.00). On adding …
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Contrasting Purulent and Non-purulent Middle Ear Effusions: A Study of Otitis Media Etiology
… OM is the reason for the majority of pediatric office visits and antibiotic prescriptions for children. 80% of children under the age of 3 will experience at least one episode of OM, and a portion of these children will experience multiple OM episodes by age 7. The economic burden associated …
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Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Nurse Practitioner Practice: A Question of Power
… used by the nurse practitioners during routine office visits with female patients. Direction for this research was provided by my concern about power inherent in professional-client dyadic relationships. Data collection methods included formal and informal interviews, participant observation and …
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The Effect of Haemophilus influenzae and Streptococcus pneumoniae coinfection on Otitis Media Disease Progression and Treatment Efficacy
… It is the number one reason for pediatric office visits, new antibiotic prescriptions and surgery in children. The two most commonly isolated pathogens from otitis media infection are <italic>Haemophilus influenzae</italic> and <italic>Streptococcus pneumoniae</italic>. Once established, …
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A Primary Care Intervention for Management of Childhood Obesity
… PCPs lack a comprehensive model for approaching office visits on pediatric excess weight. In 2007, an Expert Committee comprised of 15 national organizations established guidelines for a standard of care for managing pediatric excess weight centered on the PCP. Reluctance of PCPs to assume …
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Improving Clear Aligner Outcomes Using AI and Remote Dental Monitoring: Results from a Clinical Trial
… dental care, reducing the need for in-person visits. In orthodontics, tools such as Dental Monitoring™ (DM™) use artificial intelligence (AI), metaheuristics, and computer vision to track patient progress. This study aims to evaluate whether AI-powered remote Dental Monitoring™ can optimize …
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Essays on the economics of health insurance
… quantity of care received or in the duration of office visits. The third paper (written with Jonathan Gruber) explores the causes of the dramatic rise in employee contributions to employer-provided health insurance over the past 20 years. We find that there was a large impact of falling tax …
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A Comparison of the Utilization of Health Services in the Presence or Absence of Prescriptive Drug Insurance in a Managed Care Environment
… relatively lower-cost health services such as visits to the primary care provider and urgent care centers was greater in the group of companies offering the rider benefit than the group of companies that did not include prescriptive drugs as part of the health care benefit. The two groups …
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Do Statins Improve Outcomes in Patients With Asthma on Inhaled Corticosteroid Therapy? A Retrospective Analysis of the Mississippi Medicaid Database 2002-2004.
… hospitalizations and emergency room (ER) visits. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using Medicaid data for 2002–2004. Asthma patients ?18 years old were identified using the ICD9 code 493.xx, from Jul 1, 2002 through Dec 31, 2003. The index date for an exposed subject was any date …
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Self-Efficacy and Self-Care in the Hypertensive Female Patient
… their physicians would probably do at their next office visits should the patients’ blood pressures not be under control, 3) a Question Asking Intervention (QAI) group that was instructed and encouraged to increase their question asking and assertiveness with their physicians, and 4) a fourth …
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Increased Testicular Cancer Education and Self-Examinations among Males at Spectrum Healthcare’s Mingus Mountain Clinic
… the information should be given during routine office visits with an average score of 9 out 10 on the Likert scale. Conclusion: The findings from this DNP project showed that there was a general knowledge deficit among the male participants regarding testicular cancer and testicular …
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Predictors Of Use Of Hydroxyurea And Its Impact On Clinical And Economic Outcomes Among Children With Sickle Cell Disease
… of hospitalizations and emergency department visits were assessed using conditional logistic regression stratified on matched pairs. Length of stay and medical costs were compared in the matched sample using generalized linear models. An additional clinical outcome, number of crises, was …
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Three Essays in Health Insurance
… insurance transitioning are number of physician office visits, family size, chronic condition, age and family income. A predictive model based on the top-ranked factors is provided and the model validation result shows that it is compeDDve to other mainstream prediction methods. My second chapter …
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Healing by Example: The Influences of Medical Residents' Attitudes and Health Behaviors on their Communication Skills and Counseling Practices
… development is present among many physician office visits, though this opportunity is often overlooked (Flocke, Stange, & Goodwin, 1998). Understanding ways to improve the medical education and enhance the counseling skills of future physicians are of practical and personal relevance to …
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Medicaid Discontinuity among Adults with Cardiovascular Disease or High Risk Conditions: Associations with Medication Adherence and Health Care Utilization
… access to care, preventive care, primary care visits, and hospitalizations.</p> <p><strong>METHODS:</strong> This was a retrospective comparative analysis of the 2002–2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey employing a repeated cross-sectional study design. Study sample included adults aged 18–64 …
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Retrospective analysis of treated prevalence, psychiatric comorbidity prevalence, and healthcare utilization and expenditures in commercially insured children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
… utilization was identified in the ASD group for office, occupational/physical therapy (OT/PT), speech therapy, emergency department (ED), and prescriptions; and greater mental health-related (MHR) utilization was identified for outpatient office visits, ED visits, and prescriptions (all p<0.001). …
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Development of a Brief Screening Measure for Depression and Problem Drinking
… a college campus prior to primary care medical office visits. The measure was adapted from two widely used measures: the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-4) and the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT-C). Impulsivity, which has been associated with both depression and problematic …
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