Health care costs and service utilization in the first year following moderate to severe traumatic injury [PDF]
BMC Health Services ResearchBackground Most of the previous studies on costs following trauma have focused solely on in-hospital costs and costs associated with the acute treatment and early rehabilitation.
Mari Storli Rasmussen +3 more
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Health care costs of cardiovascular disease in China: a machine learning-based cross-sectional study [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundCardiovascular disease (CVD) causes substantial financial burden to patients with the condition, their households, and the healthcare system in China.
Mengjie Lu +13 more
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Higher Post-Acute Health Care Costs Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Adults in Ontario, Canada [PDF]
Journal of Multidisciplinary HealthcareCandace D McNaughton,1– 4 Peter C Austin,1,2,4 Zhiyin Li,1 Atul Sivaswamy,1 Jiming Fang,1 Husam Abdel-Qadir,1,3– 5 Jacob A Udell,1,5 Walter P Wodchis,1,4,6 Douglas S Lee,1,3,4,7 Ivona Mostarac,2 Clare L Atzema1– 4 1ICES (Formerly, the Institute for ...
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Data-Driven Allocation of Preventive Care With Application to Diabetes Mellitus Type II [PDF]
, 2023 Problem Definition. Increasing costs of healthcare highlight the importance of effective disease prevention. However, decision models for allocating preventive care are lacking. Methodology/Results. In this paper, we develop a data-driven decision model for determining a cost-effective allocation of preventive treatments to patients at risk ...
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Consumer-Directed Health Care: Can Consumers Look After Themselves? [PDF]
, 2008 In health care systems today, including those of Switzerland and the United States, participants do not necessarily see the big picture of lifetime health costs and quality of life, and in many systems consumers and providers lack the incentives to ...
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Machine Learning for Deferral of Care Prediction [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Care deferral is the phenomenon where patients defer or are unable to receive healthcare services, such as seeing doctors, medications or planned surgery. Care deferral can be the result of patient decisions, service availability, service limitations, or restrictions due to cost.
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Assessment of financial flow in the health system of Serbia in a period 2003-2006 [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2010 Background/Aim. The main goal of every health policy is not merely the establishment of the health system sustainability, but the accessibility of health services to the whole population, as well. This objective is shared in European Union countries, and
Gajić-Stevanović Milena +3 more
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Sufficiency, Comprehensiveness of Health Care Coverage, and Cost-Sharing Arrangements in the Realpolitik of Health Policy [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter explores two questions in detail: How should we determine the threshold for costs that individuals are asked to bear through insurance premiums or care-related out-of-pocket costs, including user fees and copayments?
Persad, Govind, Schmidt, Harald
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Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Positron emission tomography with x‐ray computed tomography (PET/CT) is increasingly being utilized for radiation treatment planning (RTP). Accurate delivery of RT therefore depends on quality PET/CT data. This study covers quality control (QC) procedures required for PET/CT for diagnostic imaging and incremental QC required for RTP.
Ran Klein +7 more
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Out-of-pocket costs for patients with psoriasis in an outpatient dermatology referral service
Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2021 Background: Psoriasis is a chronic disease that derives great costs to the health care system. In Colombia, due to deficiencies in this system, patients are more likely to incur in out-of-pocket expenses; money that has never been quantified in this ...
Ana María Maya-Rico +4 more
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