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The funding of private hospitals in Australia [PDF]

Australian Health Review, 2002
Private hospitals are an essential component of Australia's complex mix of public and private health funding and provision. Private hospitals account for 34.3 per cent of all hospital separations, and over half (56.2%) of all same-dayseparations. The revenue (funding) of the sector approached $4 billion by 1998/99, and as a result of its recent rapid ...
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Patient-Centered Care and Associated Factors at Public and Private Hospitals of Addis Ababa: Patients’ Perspective

Patient Related Outcome Measures, 2021
Frehiwot Birhanu,1 Kiddus Yitbarek,2 Animut Addis,2 Dereje Alemayehu,1 Nigusie Shifera1 1Department of Health Service Management, School of Public Health, College of Health Science, Mizan-Tepi University, Mizan-Aman, Ethiopia; 2Department of Health ...
Birhanu F, Yitbarek K, Addis A, Alemayehu D, Shifera N   +4 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
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Eradication of post‐lobectomy mucormycosis and bacterial empyema with intrapleural antimicrobial therapy in a patient with surgically resected Mycobacterium xenopi (non‐tuberculous Mycobacteria) pulmonary infection

Respirology Case Reports, 2023
Empyema thoracis is a collection of pus in the pleural space associated with pleural fibrin deposition. Treatment involves systemic antimicrobials, pleural drainage, intrapleural enzymes and sometimes decortication.
Charlotte Wigston, Emily Woolnough, Ohide Otome, Lucas Sanders, Edward Fysh   +4 more
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Emergency and critical care services in Tanzania: a survey of ten hospitals. [PDF]

, 2013
While there is a need for good quality care for patients with serious reversible disease in all countries in the world, Emergency and Critical Care tends to be one of the weakest parts of health systems in low-income countries.
A Iddriss, AC Cheng, AF Merry, AP Farmer, C Mock, D Konrad, D Watters, David Konrad, E Molyneux, E Molyneux, ED Riviello, Edwin Lugazia, F Abdullah, I Baelani, J Rylance, JA Crump, JA Razzak, Jaran Eriksen, JH Requejo, L Liu, L Pearson, Lars Irestedt, M Cherian, M English, M English, MW Dunser, MW Dunser, NK Adhikari, O Bataar, OC Kobusingye, P Ayieko, PS Chan, RP Dellinger, S Gove, S Jochberger, T Baker, T Nolan, Tanzania Service Provision Assessment Survey, Tim Baker, United Republic of Tanzania, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, United Republic of Tanzania, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, United Republic of Tanzania, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Victor Mwafongo, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, Y Amoateng-Adjepong   +50 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
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A nationwide study of patients operated for cervical degenerative disorders in public and private hospitals

Scientific Reports, 2022
During the last decades, there has been an increase in the rate of surgery for degenerative disorders of the cervical spine and in the use of supplementary private health insurance.
Elisabet Danielsen, Christer Mjåset, Tor Ingebrigtsen, Sasha Gulati, Margreth Grotle, Jan Håkon Rudolfsen, Øystein P. Nygaard, Tore K. Solberg   +7 more
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Blinatumomab Utilization in Pediatric B‐Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Experience From the Mountain West

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Blinatumomab is a bispecific T‐cell engager approved for the treatment of pediatric B‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL). Outpatient home infusion reduces hospitalization burden and optimizes resource utilization, but is logistically challenging.
Angela Parra del Riego, Kellee Parker, William C. Thomsen, James B. Ford, Mallorie B. Heneghan, David Spencer Mangum, Jennifer L. McNeer, Luke D. Maese, Claire E. F. Miller, Richard Lemons, Taumoha Ghosh   +10 more
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Autism and mild epilepsy associated with a de novo missense pathogenic variant in the GTPase effector domain of DNM1

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Dynamin 1 is a GTPase protein involved in synaptic vesicle fission, which facilitates the exocytosis of neurotransmitters necessary for normal signaling. Pathogenic variants in the DNM1 gene are associated with intractable epilepsy, often manifested as infantile spasms at onset, developmental delay, and a movement disorder, and are located in ...
Davide Mei, Elena Parrini, Claudia Bianchini, Maria Luisa Ricci, Renzo Guerrini   +4 more
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