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Catastrophic insurance: Impact of the Australian Medicare Safety Net on fees, service use and out-of-pocket costs, CHERE Working Paper 2006/9 [PDF]

Objectives: The Medicare Safety Net Policy was introduced in March 2004 to provide financial relief for those Australians who face high out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for outpatient medical services.
Elizabeth Savage, Kees van Gool, Marion Haas, Rob Anderson, Rosalie viney   +4 more
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Administrative Performance of “No-Fault” Compensation for Medical Injury [PDF]

, 1997
No-fault is the leading alternative to traditional liability systems for resolving medically caused injuries, and policy interest in such reform reflects numerous concerns with the traditional tort system as it operates in the medical field through ...
Bovbjerg, Randall R., Rankin, Peter J., Sloan, Frank A.   +2 more
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Rare Complications of Cervical Spine Surgery: Pseudomeningocoele. [PDF]

, 2017
STUDY DESIGN: This study was a retrospective, multicenter cohort study. OBJECTIVES: Rare complications of cervical spine surgery are inherently difficult to investigate.
Ailon, Tamir, Arnold, Paul M., Buser, Zorica, Chou, Dean, Corriveau, Mark, Fehlings, Michael G., Fish, David E., Hilibrand, Alan S., Hsu, Wellington K., Lee, Sungho, Lord, Elizabeth L L., Massicotte, Eric M., Mroz, Thomas E., Mummaneni, Praveen V., Nassr, Ahmad, Pace, Jonathan, Riew, K. Daniel, Sasso, Rick C., Sebastian, Arjun S., Shaffrey, Christopher, Smith, Gabriel A., Smith, Justin S., Smith, Zachary A., Steinmetz, Michael P., Than, Khoi D., Traynelis, Vincent C., Wang, Jeffrey C.   +26 more
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Anti‐CD19 CAR T Cells in Autoimmune Encephalitis: Inflammation Controlled, Neurodegeneration Unchecked?

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Just recently, successful chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy was reported in the first patient with refractory, anti‐diacylglycerol lipase alpha (DAGLA) antibody‐mediated autoimmune encephalitis, achieving partial clinical remission.
Dimitrios Mougiakakos, Marwa Al‐Dubai, Denise Walther, Dominic Borie, Jan D. Lünemann, Marc Pawlitzki, Sven G. Meuth, Solveig Henneicke, Stefan Vielhaber, Stefanie Schreiber   +9 more
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Decision-making in general practice - the effect of financial incentives on the use of laboratory analyses [PDF]

This paper examines the reaction of general practitioners (GPs) to a reform in 2004 in the remuneration system for using laboratory services in general practice.
Fauli Munkerud, Siri
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Spatial and Volumetric Characteristics of Glioblastoma: Associations With Clinical Presentation and Survival

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective We aim to comprehensively analyze how regional tumor and edema characteristics are associated with clinical presentations and survival outcomes in a large cohort of glioblastoma patients. Methods Patients with IDH‐wildtype glioblastoma who received brain MRI from 2010 to 2023 were included.
Daniel J. Zhou, Marc Jaskir, Julian Gal, Yombe Fonkeu, Christos Davatzikos, MacLean P. Nasrallah, Jose Garcia, Stephen J. Bagley, Arati Desai, Richard E. Phillips, Steven Tobochnik, Colin A. Ellis, James J. Gugger, Nishant Sinha, Joel M. Stein, Kathryn A. Davis   +15 more
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Triangulating stapling vs functional end-to-end stapling for cervical esophagogastric anastomosis after esophagectomy for thoracic esophageal cancer: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2019
Background Several studies have reported that the triangulating stapling method decreases the incidence of anastomotic stricture after esophagectomy.
Toshiaki Tsuji, Toshiyasu Ojima, Mikihito Nakamori, Masaki Nakamura, Masahiro Katsuda, Keiji Hayata, Junya Kitadani, Shimpei Maruoka, Toshio Shimokawa, Hiroki Yamaue   +9 more
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The Community Health Fund:Assessing Implementation of New Management procedures in Hanang District,Tanzania [PDF]

, 2004
A key obstacle to the success of community-based health insurance initiatives in Africa is the dearth of well-trained health managers who can design and run the insurance schemes in a viable manner.
Musau, Stephen
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Biopsychosocial determinants of hand function and its trajectories over five years in patients with hand osteoarthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objectives This study aimed to investigate hand function trajectories over 5 years in primary hand osteoarthritis. Additionally, determinants of baseline and longitudinal hand function were assessed. Methods 538 patients with both baseline and 5‐year study visits were analyzed.
Annemiek V.E.M. Olde Meule, Coen van der Meulen, Jos Runhaar, Frits R. Rosendaal, Margreet Kloppenburg   +4 more
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Strategies for pricing publicly provided health services [PDF]

The authors examine how governments finance and allocate public spending, with an eye to developing strategies for pricing publicly provided health services.
Gertler, Paul J., Hammer, Jeffrey S.
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