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Health Care Science, EarlyView.Compared with the detection of either marker alone, the combined detection of calcitonin (Ctn) and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) improved the diagnostic accuracy for medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) but did not enhance the positive predictive value (PPV).
Yu Yang +22 more
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New healthcare payment models: risk scores aren’t enough to guide resource allocation
Scientific ReportsAround the world, aging populations compel healthcare delivery systems to improve how they allocate increasingly scarce resources. In parallel, economic pressures motivate healthcare payors and policy makers to adopt global budgeting and accountable ...
Christopher Crowley +3 more
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Batna Journal of Medical SciencesIntroduction: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a major cardiovascular emergency associated with considerable clinical and economic burden. In middle-income countries, data on hospital costs remain limited. Objective: To describe the components and direct
Zakaria GHOUAIMI +7 more
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Economies of scope in Norwegian hospital production - A DEA analysis [PDF]
From 2002 the Norwegian hospital sector is to be transferred from county to state ownership, organised through regional semiautonomous companies. A major motivation for the reform is to allow for more specialised hospital production.
Kittelsen, Sverre A.C., Magnussen, Jon
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Further Findings on the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using 43,817 parent–child pairs from 23 waves of the HILDA Survey, I study the intergenerational transmission of alcohol use within a rational model of trait transmission. Transmission is predominantly same‐sex: the mother–daughter elasticity is 0.10 and the father–son elasticity is 0.09; there is no father–daughter effect.
Sergey Alexeev
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Challenges of Nutrition Department in a Selected Teaching Hospital: a qualitative study
پژوهشهای سلامتمحور, 2019 Challenges of Nutrition Department in a Selected Teaching Hospital: a qualitative study Heidari Narges1*, Yazdanpanah Mehrangiz1, Nekoui Moghadam Mahmood2, Amiresmaili Mohamadreza2, Heidari Azam3, Heidari jamebozorgi Majid4 1.
Narges Heidari +5 more
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Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Some patients prescribed opioid pills fail to properly dispose of their unused pills, posing a risk for others. We report results from a pre‐registered field experiment testing whether behaviorally informed reminder cards increase participation in a financial incentive program for returning unused opioid pills among U.S. Veterans.
Mattie Toma +7 more
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Circular statistics in Stata, revisited [PDF]
Circular data are a large class of directional data, which are of interest to scientists in many fields, including biologists (movements of migrating animals), meteorologists (winds), geologists (directions of joints and faults), and geomorphologists ...
Nicholas J. Cox
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Health Preferences and Sorting in the City
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There are large health inequalities between neighborhoods in many cities of the world. This paper studies individuals' sorting based on health amenities and exposes an important connection between health preferences and the housing market. I estimate a neighborhood choice model using geolocated data from a health survey in New York City and ...
Manuela Puente‐Beccar
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