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Economic burden of managing acute coronary syndrome at the cardiology department of Oran University Hospital – Algeria

Batna Journal of Medical Sciences
Introduction: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a major cardiovascular emergency associated with considerable clinical and economic burden. In middle-income countries, data on hospital costs remain limited. Objective: To describe the components and direct
Zakaria GHOUAIMI, Mohamed KERROUCHE, Yahia BOUDALI, Fatima Zohra KOUAIDIA, Mohamed Amine BENDADA, Chahira FELLAG, Nadia BENATTA, Houari TOUMI   +7 more
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Health and Economic Impacts of an Early Labor Induction Policy for High‐BMI Mothers

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We expand the literature on marginal returns to birth interventions by studying a common intervention: early induction of labor for a growing share of pregnancies, high‐Body Mass Index (BMI) women. We exploit Danish guidelines which recommend routine induction at 7 days after the expected due date instead of 10–13 days after for mothers with a
Louis Freget, Maria Koch Gregersen
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Modbury Hospital Photo album

Collection of colour and black and white photos of staff, patients and grounds of Modbury ...
Modbury Hospital
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What Can Providers' Motivations Tell Us About Healthcare Quality?

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agency theory suggests that variation in providers' quality of care may be explained by their heterogeneous motivations. We provide novel empirical evidence on the links between different sources of provider motivation and quality of care by combining a unique 4‐year survey dataset on Danish general practitioners' motivations with quality ...
Lucy Margaret Poole, Line Bjørnskov Pedersen, Anne Sophie Oxholm   +2 more
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Incremental expenditure for hospital care associated infections [PDF]

Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences, 2019
Background: Hospital care associated infections [HAI] are time varying and they substantially increase the burden for the patients, relatives, Payers, Third party Administrators and Hospital Administrators.
K.S. Sarala, V. Narendranath, B.S. Nanda Kumar   +2 more
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Medical Brain Drain: The Role of Job Attributes and Individual Traits

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Medical brain drain poses a major challenge for health systems, reducing physician supply and undermining public investment in medical training. Prior work examined migration flows and their macroeconomic determinants. This study uses a discrete choice experiment to assess how individual background and personality traits shape medical student ...
Marco Bertoni, Debdeep Chattopadhyay, Yuanyuan Gu   +2 more
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Effect of starting oral intake on weekends on the clinical course of patients with aspiration pneumonia

Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2018
Tsuneaki Kenzaka,1,2 Ayako Kumabe,2 Koki Kosami,2 Yuki Ueda,2 Takeshi Takahashi,3 Yuya Yamamoto,4 Yurika Hayashi,4 Akihito Kitao,4 Masanobu Okayama5 1Division of Community Medicine and Career Development, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine ...
Kenzaka T, Kumabe A, Kosami K, Ueda Y, Takahashi T, Yamamoto Y, Hayashi Y, Kitao A, Okayama M   +8 more
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Pursuing Affordability, Fairness, and Efficiency in the U.S. Commercial Health Insurance Market

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The high cost of health insurance and health care services in the US is affecting not only the uninsured and lower income households, but is beginning to reach into the middle class. Current health insurance benefit designs often fail to address two forms of market failure: poor consumer information and distorted prices.
Minjeong Kang, Bryan E. Dowd
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Inclusion of Refugees Into National Health Systems: Enablers, Barriers and Lessons From Six Country Case Studies

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global refugee population has nearly doubled in the last decade, and many of these populations face chronic displacement, often in neighbouring countries with limited resources. Emergency, short‐term responses are being transitioned to longer term approaches, including a focus on inclusion through coverage in national health systems ...
Sophie Witter, Alastair Ager, Karin Diaconu, Zahid Ali Memon, Ben Ngoye, Natasha Palmer, Marcia Vera‐Espinoza, Amina Olabi, Hussam Rekani, Hassan Ould Moctar, Ricardo Chuquimia, Chitalu Miriam Chama‐Chiliba, Ibrahim Bou‐Orm, Maria Paola Bertone   +13 more
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Reimbursement Design and Procedure‐Level Gross Profit of Robot‐Assisted Gastrectomy in a Publicly Financed Health System: Evidence From Japan

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Publicly financed healthcare systems must balance technological innovation with fiscal constraints. Reimbursement mechanisms influence institutional decisions regarding the adoption of high‐cost surgical technologies. This study evaluated whether current reimbursement designs adequately reflect procedure‐level gross surgical profit of robot ...
Yoshimasa Akashi, Koichi Ogawa, Yohei Owada, Tsuyoshi Enomoto, Kinji Furuya, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Osamu Shimomura, Yoshihiro Miyazaki, Tatsuya Oda   +8 more
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