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Economic Impact of Hospital Closure on Rural Communities in Three Southern States: Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas. A Quasi-Experimental Approach.

The important contribution of hospitals to the economies of rural areas has been the subject of several research studies. The results, however, have been contradictory.
Freshwater, David, Ona, Lucia Y., Hudoyo, Agus   +2 more
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Changes in Hospital Efficiency after Privatization [PDF]

We investigated the effects of privatization on hospital efficiency in Germany. To do so, we obtained bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores in the first stage of our analysis and subsequently employed a difference-in-difference matching approach within a ...
Oliver Tiemann, Jonas Schreyögg
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Immune Markers and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer in the European EPIC Cohort

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
The immune system has been implicated as a major driver in pancreatic cancer etiology. Previous cohort studies have found associations between pancreatic cancer and single immune system‐derived markers, but omics‐based evidence remains scarce. In this prospective case–control study, the authors investigated 92 proteins involved in immune reactions and ...
Verena A. Katzke, Yue Chen, Srimanti Dutta, Federico Canzian, Julie Louise Munk Andersen, Agnetha Linn Rostgaard‐Hansen, Léa Bouteille, Vinciane Rebours, Thérèse Truong, Matthias B. Schulze, Benedetta Bendinelli, Valeria Pala, Vittorio Simeon, Rosario Tumino, Carlotta Sacerdote, Roel Vermeulen, P. Martijn Kolijn, Sjoerd G. Elias, Marta Crous‐Bou, Maria‐José Sánchez, Ana Jimenez‐Zabala, José María Huerta, Marcela Guevara, Nick Wareham, Marie Breeur, Mattias Johansson, James Yarmolinsky, Daniele Campa, Rudolf Kaaks   +28 more
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Behavioral Economics and Health Economics [PDF]

The health sector is filled with institutions and decision-making circumstances that create friction in markets and cognitive errors by decision makers.
Richard G. Frank
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Effect of starting oral intake on weekends on the clinical course of patients with aspiration pneumonia

Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2018
Tsuneaki Kenzaka,1,2 Ayako Kumabe,2 Koki Kosami,2 Yuki Ueda,2 Takeshi Takahashi,3 Yuya Yamamoto,4 Yurika Hayashi,4 Akihito Kitao,4 Masanobu Okayama5 1Division of Community Medicine and Career Development, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine ...
Kenzaka T, Kumabe A, Kosami K, Ueda Y, Takahashi T, Yamamoto Y, Hayashi Y, Kitao A, Okayama M   +8 more
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Can the Parallel or Tandem Combination of Questionnaire‐Based Risk Assessment and Fecal Immunochemical Test Improve the Efficiency of Colorectal Cancer Screening?

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
Colorectal cancer screening reduces disease burden, but the comparative performance of screening strategies remains unclear. This population‐based study shows that the tandem strategy (positive results from both questionnaire‐based risk assessment and fecal immunochemical testing) substantially improved the detection rates of colorectal cancer and ...
Ruyue Liu, Junyi Ji, Xiaolin Wei, Chao Zheng, Nan Zhang, Qiang Sun   +5 more
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A Utility-Theoretic Approach to Measuring Changes in US Rural Residents' Access to Hospital Services from 1980 to 1999

Questions of access to hospital services figure centrally in rural-health policy debates, yet few analyses exist that measure the importance of changes in hospital access in rural areas of the US. Of the studies that measure changes in access to hospital
McNamara, Paul E.
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Hospital Car Parking: The Impact of Access Costs [PDF]

NHS Trusts have statutory powers to raise income, which allow them to decide whether to charge, and how much to charge, for hospital car parking. Trusts are not obliged to provide parking facilities on their premises, but provision will inevitably incur ...
Anne Mason
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The FemTech revolution: Unlocking the potential of new technology for optimizing pregnancy outcomes in low‐ and middle‐income countries and remote areas

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity rates uncover major global health disparities. Despite ongoing efforts, the rates of maternal and neonatal complications remain substantially higher in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) compared to high‐income countries (HICs). These high rates are the result of several unmet needs in LMICs,
Nir Melamed, Hema Divakar, Mahesh Choolani, Fionnuala M. McAuliffe, Lin Foo, Hassan Shehata, Gabriel Jones, Vyta Senikas, Eline M. Van der Beek, Nandita Palshetkar, Gabriele Saccone, Vincenzo Berghella, Mauricio A. Cuello, Justin Konje, Bhaskar Bhatt, Augusto Cam, Moses Obimbo, Aris Papageorghiou, Moshe Hod, on behalf of the FIGO Committee on Women's Health and Technology   +19 more
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The cost of the district hospital : a case study from Malawi [PDF]

The author analyzes the cost to the Ministry of Health of providing district health services in Malawi, with an emphasis on the cost of the district hospital.
Mills, A.J.
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