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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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Real-World Healthcare Resource Utilization, Healthcare Costs, and Injurious Falls Among Elderly Patients with Geographic Atrophy [PDF]

Clinical Ophthalmology
Sujata P Sarda,1 Guillaume Germain,2 Malena Mahendran,3 Jacob Klimek,3 Wendy Y Cheng,3 Roger Luo,1 Mei Sheng Duh3 1Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Waltham, MA, USA; 2Groupe d’analyse, Ltée, Montreal, Québec, Canada; 3Analysis Group, Inc, Boston, MA ...
Sarda SP, Germain G, Mahendran M, Klimek J, Cheng WY, Luo R, Duh MS   +6 more
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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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The incidence of the healthcare costs of obesity [PDF]

Journal of Health Economics, 2009
Who pays the healthcare costs associated with obesity? Among workers, this is largely a question of the incidence of the costs of employer-sponsored coverage. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, we find that the incremental healthcare costs associated with obesity are passed on to obese ...
Jay Bhattacharya, M. Kate Bundorf
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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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Can integrated microfinance and health programs reduce poverty-driven healthcare costs: a case of the Philippines [PDF]

, 2020
Microfinance primarily provides financial services to its members. Globally, it has had a significant role in alleviating poverty and improving health among the poor.
Liboon-Aranas, Lolita S.
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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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Association Between Smoking Cessation Treatment and Healthcare Costs in a Single-Payer Public Healthcare System

, 2022
INTRODUCTION: There has been little investigation of whether the clinical effectiveness of smoking cessation treatments translates into differences in healthcare costs, using real-world cost data, to determine whether anticipated benefits of smoking ...
Rosella, Laura, Voci, Sabrina, Zawertailo, Laurie, Fu, Longdi, Baliunas, Dolly, Selby, Peter, de Oliveira, Claire, Sutradhar, Rinku, Kurdyak, Paul   +8 more
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