A Costly Dental Destination: Hospital Care Means States Pay Dearly [PDF]
Examines the increase in emergency room visits for dental care; contributing factors, including the shortage of dentists who accept Medicaid; costs to states; and policy recommendations such as focusing on prevention and expanding the dental ...
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Medical Malpractice Litigation Under National Health Insurance: Essential or Expendable? [PDF]
Identification of time-continuous models from sampled data is a long standing topic of discussion, and many approaches have been suggested. The Maximum Likelihood method is asymptotically and theoretically superior to other methods.
Annas, George J. +2 more
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A comparison of maternal and newborn health services costs in Sindh Pakistan.
Pakistani women suffer the highest rate of maternal mortality in South Asia. A lack of comprehensive knowledge about maternal and newborn health (MNH) services costs impedes policy decisions to maximize the benefit from existing, as well as emerging, MNH
Asif Raza Khowaja +6 more
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Beds for Boomers: Will California's Supply of Services Meet Senior Demand? [PDF]
California is home to the largest population of seniors in the country; in 2013, 4.8 million Californians, nearly 13% of the state's population, were age 65 and older.
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In the eye of the beholder: mutual obligations and areas of ambiguity in the hospital-physician relationship [PDF]
Internationally, many countries are increasing provider accountability for cost and quality of the delivered care. In this challenging environment hospital executives struggle to build effective hospital-physician relations.
Annemans, Lieven +2 more
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Use of CPAP Machines in the Perioperative Setting in Ambulatory Surgical Centers
Javier Marull,1,* M Jonathan Vachon,1,* Dylan Buitran,2 Amy Macaluso1 1University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA; 2University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA*These authors contributed equally to this
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The Slovakian Long-term Care System. ENEPRI Research Report No. 86, 15 June 2010 [PDF]
Launched in January 2009, ANCIEN is a research project that runs for a 44-month period and involves 20 partners from EU member states. The project principally concerns the future of long-term care (LTC) for the elderly in Europe and addresses two ...
Palenik, Viliam., Radvansky, Marek
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Organizing the U.S. Health Care Delivery System for High Performance [PDF]
Analyzes the fragmentation of the healthcare delivery system and makes policy recommendations -- including payment reform, regulatory changes, and infrastructure -- for creating mechanisms to coordinate care across providers and ...
Anne K. Gauthier +5 more
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Accommodating patients with obesity in ambulatory care: A clinical environment checklist
Objective Individuals with obesity face unique challenges when visiting healthcare providers, including inadequate equipment. These negative care experiences, often exacerbated by weight stigma, frequently lead to mistrust and reluctance to seek future ...
Wesley Boland +2 more
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