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National surveys of patient experiences with addiction services in Norway: do employees use the results in quality initiatives and are results improving over time?

open access: yesFrontiers in Health Services
IntroductionThe experiences of patients receiving health care constitute an important aspect of health-care quality assessments. One of the purposes of the national program of patient-experience surveys in Norway is to support institutional and ...
Mona Haugum   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Survey on Securing and Optimizing Health Care Bigdata

open access: yesInternational Journal of Engineering & Technology, 2018
Huge amount of health care data are available online to improve the overall performance of health care system. Since this huge health care Big-data is valuable and sensitive, it requires safety. In this paper we analyze numerous ways in which the health care Big-data can be protected.
K. Kavitha, P. Pandian, D. Anuradha
openaire   +3 more sources

Addressing persistent challenges in digital image analysis of cancer tissue: resources developed from a hackathon

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Large multidimensional digital images of cancer tissue are becoming prolific, but many challenges exist to automatically extract relevant information from them using computational tools. We describe publicly available resources that have been developed jointly by expert and non‐expert computational biologists working together during a virtual hackathon
Sandhya Prabhakaran   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Results of a Human Papillomavirus Self-Collection Educational Intervention for Health Care Providers in Appalachia

open access: yesWomen's Health Reports
Objective: There is an increasing interest in human papillomavirus (HPV) self-collection as a strategy for women not up-to-date with cervical cancer screening.
Mira L. Katz   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Long-run Consequences of Health Insurance Promotion When Mandates are Not Enforceable: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
We study long-run selection and treatment effects of a health insurance subsidy in Ghana, where mandates are not enforceable. We randomly provide different levels of subsidy (1/3, 2/3, and full), with follow-up surveys seven months and three years after the initial intervention. We find that a one-time subsidy promotes and sustains insurance enrollment
arxiv  

The Health Care Consequences of Smoking and its Regulation [PDF]

open access: yes
The literature on the health economics of smoking presents two principal facts: that smoking increases health care costs, and that restrictions on smoking lead to reductions in smoking prevalence and intensity.
James W. Hughes, Michael J. Moore
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Cell‐free DNA aneuploidy score as a dynamic early response marker in prostate cancer

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
mFast‐SeqS‐based genome‐wide aneuploidy scores are concordant with aneuploidy scores obtained by whole genome sequencing from tumor tissue and can predict response to ARSI treatment at baseline and, at an early time point, to ARSI and taxanes. This assay can be easily performed at low cost and requires little input of cfDNA. Cell‐free circulating tumor
Khrystany T. Isebia   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impoverishing Effect of Ill Health: Evidence from the Western Balkans [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper investigates the extent to which the health systems of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo) have succeeded in providing financial protection against adverse health events.
Caryn Bredenkamp   +2 more
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Study to Support Improvement of the PNHA Components: Expenditures on Employer-provided Health Care and Private Schools Health Services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The expenditures for employer-provided health care in private establishments and for student health services in private schools are two components estimated in the Philippine National Health Accounts (PNHA). The basic methodology for producing the annual
Racelis, Rachel H.
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