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The Classification of Profiles of Financial Catastrophe Caused by Out-of-Pocket Payments: A Methodological Approach

Mathematics, 2021
The financial catastrophe resulting from the out-of-pocket payments necessary to access and use healthcare systems has been widely studied in the literature. The aim of this work is to predict the impact of the financial catastrophe a household will face
Maria-Carmen García-Centeno, Román Mínguez-Salido, Raúl del Pozo-Rubio   +2 more
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Medical insurance payment schemes and patient medical expenses: a cross-sectional study of lung cancer patients in urban China

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background As the main cause of cancer death, lung cancer imposes seriously health and economic burdens on individuals, families, and the health system. In China, there is no national study analyzing the hospitalization expenditures of different payment ...
Hanxu Hu, Liying Zhao, Yang Yong, Stephen Nicholas, Elizabeth Maitland, Weihan Zhao, Hao Yan, Yong Ma, Xuefeng Shi   +8 more
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Out of pocket payments and access to NCD medication in two regions in Albania

PLOS ONE, 2022
Objective The financial burden from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is a threat worldwide, alleviated only when good social protection schemes are in place. Albeit the Government in Albania has committed to Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC), Out-of-Pockets (OOPs) persist.
Jonila Gabrani, Christian Schindler, Kaspar Wyss   +2 more
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Payment Reform Pilot in Beijing Hospitals Reduced Expenditures and Out-of-Pocket Payments per Admission [PDF]

Health Affairs, 2015
In 2009 China announced plans to reform provider payment methods at public hospitals by moving from fee-for-service (FFS) to prospective and aggregated payment methods that included the use of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) to control health expenditures.
Weiyan, Jian, Ming, Lu, Kit Yee, Chan, Adrienne N, Poon, Wei, Han, Mu, Hu, Winnie, Yip   +6 more
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Global Variation in Out‐of‐Pocket Payments for Cancer Surgery

World Journal of Surgery
ABSTRACTIntroductionCancer is one of the most expensive global health challenges and surgery is needed in most cases. This study aimed to describe out‐of‐pocket payments for cancer surgery across country income groups.MethodsThis was a preplanned secondary analysis from an international prospective cohort study of consecutive patients undergoing cancer
Joana F. F. Simoes, Maria Picciochi, Adesoji Ademuyiwa, Adewale Adisa, Theophilus Anyomih, Aneel Bhangu, Jose A. Calvache, Dhruva Ghosh, Kate Jolly, Mwayi Kachapila, Ismail Lawani, Dmitri Nepogodiev, Faustin Ntirenganya, Raymond Oppong, Stephen Tabiri, Antonio Ramos‐De la Medina   +15 more
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Out of pocket payment of diabetes mellitus in a public hospital of Karachi

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 2019
To estimate the out-of-pocket payment on routine management of type 2 diabetes in patients attending a public-sector facility.The cross-sectional study was conducted from December 2016 to May 2017 at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, and comprised of persons with type 2 diabeties.
Syed Muhammad, Ibrahim Hashmi, Shiraz, Shaikh, Sana, Tanzil, Lubna, Baig, Nimra, Shahid, Amna, Abdullah   +5 more
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Soft Robotic Excretory Care Simulator for Nursing Education: Functional and Perceptual Biomimetics Approach

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A soft robotic simulator is developed to replicate the digital removal of feces (DRF), a sensitive yet essential nursing procedure. Integrating soft actuators, sensors, and a realistic rectal model, the simulator balances functional fidelity with perceptual realism. Engineering evaluations and nurse feedback confirm its potential to enhance training in
Shoko Miyagawa, Sota Suzuki, Shizuka Watanabe, Zebing Mao, Young Ah Seong, Toshinori Fujie, Tatsuhiro Horii, Kenjiro Tadakuma, Koichi Suzumori, Hiroyuki Nabae, Shingo Maeda   +10 more
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Use of high-level health facilities and catastrophic expenditure in Vietnam: can health insurance moderate this relationship?

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Overcrowding of high-level health facilities is a major concern in a Vietnamese health system. This may increase an economic burden to the households since health insurance is still insufficient in providing financial risk protection.
Hwa-Young Lee, Juhwan Oh, Van Minh Hoang, J. Robin Moon, S. V. Subramanian   +4 more
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Reversible, Chemically Gated FRET via Ligand‐Activated Acceptors

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Fluorogen binding turns the compact FAST tag into a tunable FRET acceptor, with ligand chemistry programming spectral overlap and excited‐state lifetimes. Fluorescence‐lifetime imaging reads out energy transfer through the shortened donor lifetime, while simply adding or washing out the dye switches FRET on and off, reversibly mapping the supramodular ...
Nivedita Singh, Smruti Ranjan Nayak, Sanjay Kumar Mohanty, Aishwarya Hanumantharaju, Amala Shaju, Mini Jose, Aravind Penmatsa, Deepak Nair   +7 more
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Porphyrin‐Based Porous Materials for Antibacterial Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Porphyrin‐based porous materials have excellent photophysical properties and tunable structures for high‐efficiency antibacterial therapy. This review comprehensively discusses the structural design strategies and synthetic pathways of the four main types of porphyrin‐based porous materials, summarizes their cross‐domain antimicrobial applications, and
Xiao‐Xue Liang, Xin Li, Ying Xiong, Xin Wang, Ying‐Wei Yang   +4 more
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