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Healthcare Utilization by Obese and Overweight Children
The Journal of Pediatrics, 2015To examine the relationship between childhood obesity and health care use in a large, nationally representative group of children with measured anthropometrics.Analysis of 5 combined National Health and Nutrition Survey datasets from 2001 to 2010. Unadjusted and adjusted logistic regression models assessed the relationship between health care use ...
Josette Bianchi-Hayes +5 more
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Disparities in dental healthcare utilization in China
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 2018AbstractObjectivesThe goal of this study was to investigate inequality in dental service utilization in Chinese middle‐aged and senior adults and changes in inequality over time and to determine the sources of inequality.MethodsThe data included 17 648 individuals aged 45 years and older in 2013 and 15 450 individuals in 2015 who participated in the ...
Chaofan Li +2 more
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Utilization Management and Healthcare Reform
Journal For Healthcare Quality, 1995The reform movement in healthcare is occurring in response to financial pressures on American business. The trend toward managed care with competition-based discounting and capitation contracts is likely to continue even if Congress does not enact healthcare reform legislation.
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Health Information Exchange and Healthcare Utilization
Journal of Medical Systems, 2008Health information exchange (HIE) makes previously inaccessible data available to clinicians, resulting in more complete information. This study tested the hypotheses that HIE information access reduced emergency room visits and inpatient hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions among medically indigent adults.
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Trends in Health and Healthcare Utilization in Manitoba
Healthcare Management Forum, 2002Trends in health status and healthcare utilization were examined for regions of Manitoba from 1985 to 2000. While the provincial premature mortality rate decreased, the difference between the northern and southern regions increased. Hospital admissions remained stable despite major bed closures and an aging population; a decrease in hospital days per ...
Lisa M, Lix +3 more
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Utility Measurement in Healthcare
PharmacoEconomics, 2006The present article provides a brief historical background on the development of utility measurement and cost-utility analysis in healthcare. It then outlines a number of research ideas in this field that the author never got to. The first idea is extremely fundamental.
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Infobuttons at Intermountain Healthcare: utilization and infrastructure.
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2007"Infobuttons" have been proposed as a potential solution for lowering access barriers to on-line information resources at the point-of-care. At Intermountain Healthcare, infobuttons have been available to clinicians for over 4 years. The current implementation of infobuttons is based on a software component called "E-resources Manager,' allowing new ...
Guilherme Del Fiol +2 more
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Women's healthcare autonomy and the utilization of maternal healthcare services in Afghanistan
Public HealthThe objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between women's healthcare autonomy and the utilization of maternal healthcare services (MHS), including antenatal care services, the services of health professionals at the birth of a child, and facility-based delivery.This was a cross-sectional study.This study utilized data from the ...
A G, Khatir +4 more
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Determinants of maternal healthcare utilization in Zimbabwe
International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied Research (IJESAR), 2012Zimbabwe and other developing countries struggle to achieve millennium development goals originally set for 2015. To assist health policy making, there was an investigation of how demographic, socioeconomic and cultural factors determine maternal healthcare services use in Zimbabwe. A logistic model for four different maternal healthcare services using
Muchabaiwa L. +4 more
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The utility of culture in healthcare reform
British Journal of Healthcare Management, 2007What everyone knows but nobody says is that the greatest barriers to systematically imposing the quality of medicine are not financial, structural or technical, but practice, custom and tradition — cultural.
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