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Ambulatory Healthcare Use Profiles of Patients With Diabetes and Their Association With Quality of Care: A Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022
BackgroundDespite the growing burden of diabetes worldwide, evidence regarding the optimal models of care to improve the quality of diabetes care remains equivocal.
Julien Dupraz, Emilie Zuercher, Patrick Taffé, Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux   +3 more
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Maintaining ambulatory care capacity through telemedicine during wartime: insights from a tertiary center’s experience [PDF]

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
Background A state of war has the potential to profoundly disrupt routine, essential ambulatory hospital services, negatively impacting both acute hospitalizations and continuity of care.
Shachar Shapira, Danny Epstein, Meital Zur, Gilad Twig, Gad Segal, Yitshak Kreiss, Galia Barkai, Yael Frenkel Nir   +7 more
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Healthcare utilization and morbidity preceding a dementia classification: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research
Background Dementia is frequently underdiagnosed in its early stages, but changes in healthcare utilization may precede diagnosis by several years.
Meng Pan, Virginia Pate, David Knopman, Michele Jonsson-Funk, Priya Palta, Anna M. Kucharska-Newton   +5 more
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The role of occupational health care in ambulatory health care in Finland

Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2022
In Finland, occupational healthcare (OHC) provides alternative access to curative ambulatory primary healthcare for a large proportion of the employed.
Tuukka Holster, Lien Nguyen, Unto Häkkinen   +2 more
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Treatment patterns, healthcare resource use, and costs associated with uncomplicated urinary tract infection among female patients in the United States.

PLoS ONE, 2022
BackgroundWe evaluated associations between antibiotic prescription and healthcare resource use and costs (Part A), and between antibiotic switching and healthcare resource use, costs, and uncomplicated urinary tract infection recurrence (Part B) in ...
Rena C Moon, Alen Marijam, Fanny S Mitrani-Gold, Daniel C Gibbons, Alex Kartashov, Ning A Rosenthal, Ashish V Joshi   +6 more
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Identifying common patterns of health services use: a longitudinal study of older Swiss adults' care trajectories

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Population ageing puts pressure on health systems initially designed to handle acute and episodic illnesses. Segmenting an ageing population based on its healthcare utilization may enable policymakers to undertake evidence-based resource ...
Leonard Roth, Laurence Seematter-Bagnoud, Marie-Annick Le Pogam, Julien Dupraz, Juan-Manuel Blanco, Yves Henchoz, Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux   +6 more
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Pain and haemorrhage are the most common reasons for emergency department use and hospital admission in adults following ambulatory surgery: results of a population-based cohort study

Perioperative Medicine, 2020
Background Advances in healthcare delivery have allowed for the increase in the number of ambulatory surgery procedures performed in Canada. Despite these advances, patients return to hospital following discharge.
Monakshi Sawhney, David H. Goldstein, Xuejiao Wei, Genevieve C. Pare, Louie Wang, Elizabeth G. VanDenKerkhof   +5 more
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A framework for implementing antibiotic stewardship in ambulatory care: Lessons learned from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2022
Antibiotic overuse is common in ambulatory care settings, underscoring the importance of outpatient antibiotic stewardship to ensure safe and effective antibiotic prescription.
Sara C. Keller, Sara E. Cosgrove, Melissa A. Miller, Pranita Tamma   +3 more
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Biosimilar Use and Switching in Belgium: Avenues for Integrated Policymaking

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Background: By improving the affordability and accessibility of biologicals, biosimilar competition provides important benefits to healthcare systems and patients.
Liese Barbier, Steven Simoens, Paul Declerck, Arnold G. Vulto, Arnold G. Vulto, Isabelle Huys   +5 more
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Prosthesis or osteosynthesis for the treatment of a pathological hip fracture? A nationwide registry-based cohort study

Journal of Bone Oncology, 2021
Aims: How endoprosthetic replacement compares to osteosynthesis in the treatment of pathologic hip fractures as far as functional outcome and use of healthcare resources is concerned remains largely unknown.
Panagiotis Tsagkozis, Jessica Ehne, Rikard Wedin, Margareta Hedström   +3 more
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