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Technology and healthcare costs

Annals of Pediatric Cardiology, 2011
Medicine in the 21 st century is increasingly dependent on technology. Unlike in many other areas, the cost of medical technology is not declining and its increasing use contributes to the spiraling healthcare costs.
Kumar R
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Koszty transakcyjne współpłacenia w ochronie zdrowia. Aspekt makroekonomiczny

Problemy Zarządzania, 2022
In healthcare the payer, covering the cost of health services, plays the key role. As a result, we do not observe a regular relation seller–buyer, but rather dependency purchaser–payer.
Kazimierz Ryć, Zofia Skrzypczak
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Factors associated with higher healthcare costs in a cohort of homeless adults with a mental illness and a general cohort of adults with a history of homelessness

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Healthcare costs are disproportionately incurred by a relatively small group of people often described as high-cost users. Understanding the factors associated with high-cost use of health services among people experiencing homelessness could ...
Kathryn Wiens, Laura C. Rosella, Paul Kurdyak, Simon Chen, Tim Aubry, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Stephen W. Hwang   +6 more
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Managing hospitalized patients with bacterial infections: the price-to-pay upon site of infection

Rural and Remote Health, 2022
Introduction: Infections impose a significant burden on healthcare costs worldwide. We aimed to explore antibiotic- and hospital-related costs of infections needing admission in a tertiary university hospital in Greece.
Karolina Akinosoglou, Christos Davoulos, Anne-Lise deLastic, Martha Kolosaka, Vasiliki Niarou, Spyridoula Theodoraki, Dimitrios Ziazias, Foteini Kosmopoulou, Christina- Panagiota Koutsouri, Charalambos Gogos   +9 more
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Assessment of Routine Preoperative Laboratory Testing Practice among Elective Surgical Patients at a Tertiary Care Institution, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022
Introduction: There are over 90,000 major elective surgeries performed each year in Ethiopia. Obtaining routine or baseline preoperative laboratory tests increases healthcare costs. Preoperative testing should be based on clear guiding principles. Hence,
Berhanetsehay Teklewold Teklemariam, Migbar Desalegn, Mekdim Tadese, Maru Gama   +3 more
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Impact of physical activity on healthcare costs: a systematic review

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background This systematic review aims to describe the relation between physical inactivity and healthcare costs, by taking into account healthcare costs of physical-inactivity-related diseases (common practice), including physical-activity-related ...
Marjolein Duijvestijn, G. Ardine de Wit, Paul F. van Gils, G. C. Wanda Wendel-Vos   +3 more
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Outpatient healthcare costs associated with overweight and obesity in Italy

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background To evaluate outpatient healthcare expenditure associated with different levels of BMI and glucose metabolism alterations. Methods The study is based on a representative national sample of adults, with data obtained from electronic clinical ...
Vincenzo Atella, Federico Belotti, Claudio Cricelli, Matilde Giaccherini, Gerardo Medea, Antonio Nicolucci, Andrea Piano Mortari, Paolo Sbraccia   +7 more
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Healthcare costs of failed rotator cuff repairs

JSES Reviews, Reports, and Techniques, 2023
Background: The goal of this study was to estimate the short-term (∼2 years) healthcare costs of failed primary arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (RCR) in the United States.
Bradley L. Young, MD, Alex Bitzer, MD, Susan Odum, PhD, Nady Hamid, MD, Shadley Shiffern, MD, Patrick M. Connor, MD   +5 more
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The Ethics of Introspection

Voices in Bioethics, 2016
With U.S. healthcare costs rising and threatening to bankrupt the nation, many critics have turned a critical eye to the healthcare system. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2013, the U.S.
Dallas Ducar
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Socio-economic determinants of healthcare costs in early life: a register-based study in the Netherlands

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background Children with low socioeconomic status (SES) have an increased risk of a suboptimal start in life with ensuing higher healthcare costs. This study aims to investigate the effects of individual- (monthly household income) and contextual-level ...
Marije van der Hulst, Suzanne Polinder, Rianne Kok, Peter Prinzie, Marijke W. de Groot, Alex Burdorf, Loes C. M. Bertens   +6 more
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