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Health Status And Health Care Utilization

Health Affairs, 1986
In each issue of Health Affairs the trends of a significant quarter of the health sphere are tracked.
R, Andersen, L A, Aday, M S, Chen
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Measuring the health utility of chronic eustachian tube dysfunction

The Laryngoscope, 2020
To assess the health utility of chronic Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD).
M. Teklu, Marta Kulich, A. Micco, Kristin Brindisi, Andrew Ferski, K. Niekamp, C. Price, B. Tan   +7 more
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Multiplicative Utilities for Health and Consumption

Decision Analysis, 2012
Many challenging medical/financial decisions require a decision maker to express preferences for lifetime streams of health and consumption. To express such preferences, we develop two multiplicative utility forms from basic conditions. These forms have many advantages over the leading additive form and extend the way in which life years are adjusted ...
Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr., Samuel E. Bodily   +1 more
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The health utility of mild and severe dysphonia

The Laryngoscope, 2020
The impact of disease states can be measured using health state utilities, which are values that reflect economic preferences for health outcomes. Utilities for dysphonia have not been studied using direct methods.
Elliana Devore, M. Shrime, E. Wittenberg, R. Franco, Phillip C. Song, M. Naunheim   +5 more
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Alexithymia and Health Care Utilization

Psychosomatic Medicine, 1996
Alexithymia's link with health care utilization is unclear. Alexithymia may be overrepresented among clinical samples because of a proclivity to seek care, or alexithymia may prompt delay or avoidance of care, perhaps exacerbating illness. In 911 young adults, this study examined relationships between alexithymia (Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20; total ...
M A, Lumley, S, Norman
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Physicians’ utilization of health care

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1995
To describe how physicians attend to their own health care needs.Rhode Island.A random sample of Blue Cross/Blue Shield providers. The 306 respondents (67% of 458) primarily (92%) had MD or DO degrees. The nonphysician providers were chiropractors, dentists, optometrists, and podiatrists.A mailed survey provided data describing the respondents' medical
T J, Wachtel, V L, Wilcox, A W, Moulton, D, Tammaro, M D, Stein   +4 more
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Health‐related quality of life and health utility of Chinese patients undergoing nocturnal home haemodialysis in comparison with other modes of dialysis

Nephrology, 2019
To compare the health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) and health utility of Chinese patients with end‐stage renal disease (ESRD) undergoing nocturnal home haemodialysis (Home HD) against those patients undergoing other modes of dialysis.
C. Wong, J. Chen, S. Fung, W. Lo, S. Lui, T. Chan, Yuk-lun Cheng, I. Kong, E. Wan, C. Lam   +9 more
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Health care utilization in MS

Neurology, 1999
To the Editor: We read with interest the article on health care utilization in MS by Stolp-Smith et al.1 Although the article was subtitled “A population-based study in Olmsted County, MN,” the study design utilized patients who received care in their health system as the source of the control group.
H. W. Sander, J. C. Masdeu, K. A. Stolp-Smith, E. J. Atkinson, M. E. Campion, P. C. O'Brien, M. Rodriguez   +6 more
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Health utility of rhinectomy, surgical nasal reconstruction, and prosthetic rehabilitation

The Laryngoscope, 2019
Advanced nasal malignancies may require rhinectomy, which can have profound psychosocial impacts. Rhinectomy defects can be rehabilitated through surgery or prosthetics.
C. Faris, Alyssa Heiser, Olivia E. Quatela, M. Jackson, Oren E S Tessler, Nate Jowett, Linda N. Lee   +6 more
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Utilization of health services in Indonesia

Social Science & Medicine, 1986
This paper examines the utilization patterns of traditional and modern health services in Indonesia, using household sample survey socio-economic data in conjunction with community-level data on availability of services. The results strongly suggest that low household income is a barrier to the utilization of modern health services, even where they are
D, Chernichovsky, O A, Meesook
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