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Eye care services and benefits paid by medical schemes in South Africa

African Vision and Eye Health, 2023
Background: Vision impairment (VI) affects people worldwide, and demographic factors like age are significantly linked to VI. Routine eye exams and other eye care treatments can detect and prevent common eye illnesses.
Michael M. Willie
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The temporal trends and short‐ and long‐term mortality of people with acute myocardial infarction and rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide cohort study

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Aims We investigated whether a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) affects the quality of inpatient acute myocardial infarction (AMI) care and long‐term mortality post‐AMI. Methods We analysed data from 784,091 adults, 6,047 with a diagnosis of RA, from England and Wales hospitalised with AMI between 2005 and 2019 from the MINAP registry, linked ...
Megan Butler, Nicholas Weight, Muhammad Rashid, Rodrigo Bagur, Purvi Parwani, Samantha Hider, Edward Roddy, Robert Butler, Mamas A Mamas   +8 more
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Two-sided jumps risk model with proportional investment and random observation periods

AIMS Mathematics, 2023
In this paper, we consider a two-sided jumps risk model with proportional investments and random observation periods. The downward jumps represent the claim while the upward jumps represent the random returns.
Chunwei Wang, Jiaen Xu, Naidan Deng, Shujing Wang   +3 more
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Flexible Sensor‐Based Human–Machine Interfaces with AI Integration for Medical Robotics

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review explores how flexible sensing technology and artificial intelligence (AI) significantly enhance human–machine interfaces in medical robotics. It highlights key sensing mechanisms, AI‐driven advancements, and applications in prosthetics, exoskeletons, and surgical robotics.
Yuxiao Wang, Zhipeng Jiang, Sun Hwa Kwon, Matthew Ibrahim, Alexander Dang, Lin Dong   +5 more
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Building Loss Models [PDF]

This paper is intended as a guide to building insurance risk (loss) models. A typical model for insurance risk, the so-called collective risk model, treats the aggregate loss as having a compound distribution with two main components: one characterizing ...
Joanna Janczura, Krzysztof Burnecki, Rafal Weron   +2 more
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Healthcare Utilization Monitoring System in Korea [PDF]

Healthcare Informatics Research, 2015
ObjectivesIt is important to monitor the healthcare utilization of patients at the national level to make evidence-based policy decisions and manage the nation's healthcare sector.
Hyun Chul Shin, Young-Taek Park, Youn Tae Lee, Emmanuel C. Jo   +3 more
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A Scoping Review of Nudges for Enhancing Agricultural Policy

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following PRISMA guidelines, we conduct a scoping review on 18 empirical studies on nudging interventions for farmers in Europe and the USA. The evidence on the effectiveness of nudges is mixed. Some studies demonstrate positive outcomes, particularly when nudges are combined with other interventions; others report no effect or negative ...
Nadja El Benni, Yanbing Wang, Jeanine Ammann, Gabriele Mack, Robert Finger   +4 more
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Medical Knowledge Graph to Enhance Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Detection on Claim Data: Model Development and Performance Evaluation

JMIR Medical Informatics, 2020
BackgroundFraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA) detection is a significant yet challenging problem in the health insurance industry. An essential step in FWA detection is to check whether the medication is clinically reasonable with respect to the diagnosis ...
Sun, Haixia, Xiao, Jin, Zhu, Wei, He, Yilong, Zhang, Sheng, Xu, Xiaowei, Hou, Li, Li, Jiao, Ni, Yuan, Xie, Guotong   +9 more
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A guide for the utilization of Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service National Patient Samples [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2014
The claims data of the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) is an important source of information for healthcare service research.
Logyoung Kim, Jee-Ae Kim, Sanghyun Kim
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Evaluating Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program Impact on Crop Indemnities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2018 Farm Bill established the Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program (FSCP), which was focused on removing feral hogs and restoring damaged property. We conduct a quasi‐experimental analysis of FSCP on crop damage using crop insurance data and a staggered difference‐in‐difference model.
Hence Duncan, Christopher N. Boyer, Eunchun Park, S. Aaron Smith   +3 more
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