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Parental Perspectives on Financial Incentives for Adolescents: Findings From Qualitative Interviews

Global Pediatric Health, 2019
Background. Financial incentives are becoming more common to promote health behaviors; however, little is known about the acceptability of incentivizing adolescent health behaviors. Design.
Kera M. Beskin MPH, MBA, Rachel Caskey MD, MAPP   +1 more
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Vestibular Patient Journey: Insights From Vestibular Disorders Association (VeDA) Registry

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Vestibular symptoms impose a high burden of disability. Understanding real‐world diagnostic and treatment pathways can identify care gaps and guide interventions. We aimed to characterize symptom profiles, diagnostic trends, provider involvement, and treatment patterns in vestibular disorders.
Ali Rafati, Sami I. Nassar, Shaun A. Nguyen, Patricia L. Gerend, Michael C. Schubert, Michael T. Teixido, Frederick A. Godley, Joel A. Goebel, Cynthia A. Ryan, Habib G. Rizk, Amir Kheradmand   +10 more
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New Evidence on Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement [PDF]

We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. The causal effect is identified based on the natural experiment generated by an institutional reform.
Barbara Hanel, Regina T. Riphahn
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Controlling COVID-19 Outbreaks with Financial Incentives

, 2021
In this paper, we consider controlling coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks with financial incentives. We use the recently developed susceptible-unidentified infected-confirmed (SUC) epidemic model.
Chaeyoung Lee, Soobin Kwak, Junseok Kim
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Ofatumumab in Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody–Associated Disease: A Comparison With Rituximab

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of ofatumumab in patients with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody–associated disease (MOGAD), and compare it with rituximab. Methods We conducted a single–center, observational study including 22 MOGAD patients treated with ofatumumab and 21 treated with rituximab.
Yuxin Fan, Lei Zhou, Jingzi ZhangBao, Hongmei Tan, Zhouzhou Wang, Chao Quan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial incentives and physician prescription behavior: Evidence from dispensing regulations [PDF]

, 2015
In many healthcare markets, physicians can influence the volume (volume response) and the composition of the services provided (substitution response). The goal and main contribution of this paper is to empirically assess the relative importance of these
Wüthrich, Kaspar, Burkhard, Daniel, Schmidy, Christian, Schmid, Christian   +3 more
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Effect of information and communication technology-based loyalty incentives on farmers’ use of agricultural inputs and soybean yields: evidence from a field experiment in Uganda

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
To address low yields and contribute to food security in sub-Saharan Africa, policy-makers encourage smallholders to use productivity-enhancing agricultural inputs such as improved seed varieties, fertilisers and inoculants. However, adoption rates among
Connetie Ayesiga, Esther Ronner, Peter Ebanyat, Ken E. Giller, Paul T. M. Ingenbleek   +4 more
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Dimethyl Fumarate, But Not Rituximab, Reduces Serum GFAP Levels and PIRMA in Relapsing–Remitting MS

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (sGFAP) levels are believed to reflect mainly acute and chronic disease processes in multiple sclerosis (MS), respectively. In this study, we investigated whether dimethyl fumarate (DMF) and rituximab (RTX) differentially affect these biomarkers.
F. Shawket, J. Lycke, J. Salzer, F. Piehl, K. Fink, N. Lange, J. Mellergård, C. Malmeström, P. Sundström, I. Erngren, A. al‐Grety, E. Freyhult, K. Kultima, J. Burman, A. Svenningsson   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wellness Programs With Financial Incentives Through Disparities Lens

, 2017
Purpose: To examine wellness programs with financial incentives and their effect on disparities in preventive care. Design: Financial incentives were introduced by 15 large employers, from 2010 to 2013. Setting: Fifteen private employers.
Tanya R. Lewis-Walls, Mona Shah, Alison Cuellar, Alicia Atwood, Anthony T. LoSasso   +4 more
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Financial Incentives in Managed Care

AMA Journal of Ethics, 2001
A case that explores the impact of financial incentives from insurance companies on the patient-physician relationship and whether or not they should be disclosed to a patient. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
openaire   +2 more sources