PP142 Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) Of Brazilian Public Healthcare System (SUS): Preliminary Results For Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) [PDF]
IntroductionImproving the value of healthcare delivered requires accurate cost information, which can be challenging for rare diseases. We report direct costs of patients with OI using the TDABC methodology.MethodsThis research is part of a nationwide observational study to assess the “Value of Healthcare Journey for Patients With Rare Diseases” in SUS.
Camila Azevedo +7 more
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Leaf Spots and Leaf Blights of Palm
This fact sheet is limited to those diseases where the pathogens only infect (invade) and cause spots and blights of the leaf blade. Other diseases may cause death of leaflets and leaf segments but are actually the result of a pathogen infecting the ...
Monica L. Elliott
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Estudo comparativo da automedicação praticada por estudantes dos cursos das áreas de Ciências da Saúde, Humanas, Exatas e Sociais da Universidade do Planalto Catarinense – UNIPLAC [PDF]
O estudo teve por objetivo pesquisar e analisar o hábito da automedicação entre estudantes dos cursos de Medicina, Engenharia Civil, Pedagogia e Direito da UNIPLAC, verificando além da prevalência da automedicação, o uso desta prática devido ao nível ...
Marli Adelina SOUZA +2 more
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Financial Deregulation and Economic Growth in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland [PDF]
Advocates of financial regulation, Arestis and Demetriades, argue that financial liberalisation does not impact on financial market efficiency and the allocation of investment. Results in this study find that Czech, Hungarian and Polish firms are subject
Patricia McGrath
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A Novel, Contactless, Portable “Spot-Check” Device Accurately Measures Respiratory Rate [PDF]
Respiratory rate (RR) is an important vital sign used in the assessment of acutely ill patients. It is also used as to predict serious deterioration in a patient's clinical condition.
Burke, Derek +9 more
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Integrity Assessment Strategies for the Energy-Efficient Components, Structures and Systems [PDF]
The urgent need to combat global warming and environmental pollution underscores the importance of developing energy-efficient systems that effectively reduce emissions.
Emanuele Vincenzo Arcieri +2 more
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The incident of the death of three post-operative patients in a line at the MHP hospital, Lampung on April 5, 2016 had emerged the decline of public confidence toward hospitals, both public and private hospitals. The symptoms in the patients’ body before
I Ketut Seregig
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Diversity in the Irish workplace - lesbian women's experience as nurses [PDF]
Work is an area which represents an important part of people’s lives where they encounter the Other. It provides an individual with a sense of who they are in society, through their membership of communities.
Duffy, Mel
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Smoke detection algorithm for intelligent video surveillance system [PDF]
An efficient smoke detection algorithm on color video sequences obtained from a stationary camera is proposed. Our algorithm considers dynamic and static features of smoke and is composed of basic steps: preprocessing; slowly moving areas and pixels ...
N. Brovko, R. Bogush, S. Ablameyko
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The GBT: A proposed architecure for multi-Gb/s data transmission in high energy physics [PDF]
The future upgrade of the LHC accelerator, the SLHC, will increase the beam luminosity by a factor of ten leading to a corresponding growth of the amounts of data to be treated by the data transmission and acquisition systems.
Kloukinas, Marchioro, A, Moreira, P
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