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Who Pays? Who Benefits? Unfairness in American Health Care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
American-style health insurance greatly amplifies price-gouging opportunities for health care providers, who inflate prices both to enrich themselves and to subsidize and expand the nation’s health care enterprise.
Havighurst, Clark C., Richman, Barak D.
core   +1 more source

Salsa Dance and Perceived Mental Health Benefits: A Servant Leadership Theory-Driven Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The purpose of the current study was to assess servant leadership dimensions, perceived mental health benefits, and correlations between the two following an eight-week servant leadership theory-driven salsa dance programme taught to novice learners at a
Domene, Pablo A., Lawson, Chelsey
core   +1 more source

Sirolimus for Extracranial Arteriovenous Malformations: A Scoping Review of the Evidence in Syndromic and Non‐Syndromic Cases

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are rare, high‐flow, vascular anomalies that can occur either sporadically or as part of a genetic syndrome. AVMs can progress with serious morbidity and even mortality if left unchecked. Sirolimus is an mTOR inhibitor that is effective in low‐flow vascular malformations; however, its role in AVMs is unclear.
Will Swansson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do collaboRATE Scores Reflect Differences in Perceived Shared Decision-Making Across Diverse Patient Populations? Evidence From a Large-Scale Patient Experience Survey in the United States

open access: yesJournal of Patient Experience, 2020
Patient characteristics have been linked to prevalence and quality of shared decision-making (SDM) behaviors across diverse studies of varied size and focus. We aim to evaluate the extent to which patient characteristics are associated with patient-rated
Rachel C Forcino Msc   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the Utility of Paired Tumor and Germline Targeted DNA Sequencing for Pediatric Oncology Patients: A Single Institution Report

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic yield and utility of universal paired tumor–normal multigene panel sequencing in newly diagnosed pediatric solid and central nervous system (CNS) tumor patients and to compare the detection of germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PV/LPVs) against established clinical referral criteria for cancer ...
Natalie Waligorski   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Screening high-risk Veterans for cirrhosis: taking a stepwise population health approach

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research
Background Because cirrhosis is often unrecognized, we aimed to develop a stepwise screening algorithm for cirrhosis in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and assess this approach’s feasibility and acceptability. Methods VHA hepatology clinicians (“
Jonathan Dounel   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Laws Affecting the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
[Excerpt] The purpose of the report is to provide historical and background information that helps explain how FEHBP has evolved into the program it is today. This report focuses solely on changes made to FEHBP through legislative action.
Cornell, Ada S, Mach, Annie L
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Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Should Clinicians Weigh the Benefits and Harms of Discussing Politicized Topics that Influence Their Individual Patients\u27 Health? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Health implications of politically charged phenomena are particularly difficult for physicians to discuss with their patients and communities. Addressing climate change and its associated health effects involves trade-offs between health and economic ...
Alame, Diana, Truog, Robert D.
core   +1 more source

One health: a concept led by Africa, with global benefits [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Titus Mlengeya Kamani and others argue that Africa is well positioned and equipped to conduct and benefit from an integrated ...
Buza, J.   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

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