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A Decision-Support Tool for Choosing Between Alternative Payment Models for Multispecialty Group Practices

open access: yes, 2014
Purpose: In Austria, the existing payment mechanism for ambulatory health care has a strong fee-for-service component. Due to legal requirements, however, Austrian sickness funds have to implement a new payment system with a focus on lump sum payment for
Pfeffer, N.   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

The impact of digital consumption on energy transition in China

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance
Against the backdrop of a flourishing digital economy, digital consumption has emerged as a crucial driving force behind the expansion of domestic demand, overcoming of spatial and temporal limitations, and enhancement of the efficiency of resource ...
Yan Su, Wanjun Zheng, Ping Yu
doaj   +1 more source

Forecasting the Dialysis Burden in Japan: Validation‐Based Projections of Prevalence and Incidence Through 2050

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Japan has one of the highest dialysis prevalence rates worldwide and a shrinking, aging population. Whether dialysis burden has entered a sustained post‐peak phase or whether recent declines partly reflect pandemic‐related disruptions remains uncertain.
Hatice Şahin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neural components underlying subjective preferential decision making [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The objectives of the current study were twofold: (i) to investigate the neural precursors of the formation of a subjective preference of facial stimuli, and (ii) to characterize the spatiotemporal brain activity patterns distinguishing between preferred
Bhattacharya, J.   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Association Between Individualized Education for Kidney Replacement Therapy Modality Selection and Peritoneal Dialysis Initiation: A Cross‐Sectional Study

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an established home‐based kidney replacement therapy (KRT), but its uptake remains low in Japan. We evaluated whether individualized education in a dedicated outpatient clinic was associated with the initiation of PD.
Yasuko Ito   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

ECONOMIC IMPACT ON DECISION MAKING [PDF]

open access: yesPediatric Research, 1984
Circumcision in the patient population is not frequently performed for religious reasons. Its routine performance is discouraged as being medically unnecessary by written and verbal material provided to the mothers after delivery. Prior to September 1 1982 routine circumcision was provided without cost for medically indigent and public assistant ...
Walter C Boutwell, Eun H Kim
openaire   +1 more source

Metastatic niche shaped by host factors influences disseminated cancer cell fate

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Metastasis is shaped not only by cancer cells but also by the environments they encounter. This review explores how factors such as aging, diet, the microbiome, lifestyle, and environmental exposures remodel organ‐specific niches in the lung, liver, bone, and brain, influencing where metastatic cells survive, remain dormant, or grow, and ultimately ...
Gwennan Delyth Ward   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Models of rational decision making in contemporary economic theory [PDF]

open access: yesMegatrend Revija, 2015
The aim of this paper is to show that the economists can not adequately explain the rational behavior if are focused only on the scientific observations from the model of full rationality and the model instrumental rationality, and the inclusion related ...
Krstić Bojan, Krstić Miloš
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial biology in cancer epigenetics

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Spatial epigenomics combines molecular profiling with tissue architecture to reveal how gene regulation is organized within intact tissues. In cancer, these technologies uncover the mechanisms driving tumor heterogeneity and microenvironmental interactions, opening new opportunities for biomarker discovery and precision medicine.
Eva Crespo‐García, Manel Esteller
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Identity and Economic Decision Making

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal
Economic research on gender gaps has focused on variation based on the binary classification of “men” and “women”. We explore whether a self-reported continuous measure of gender identity (CGI) explains variation in economic decisions and outcomes beyond the relationship with binary gender.
Brenøe, Anne Ardila   +4 more
openaire   +7 more sources

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