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Association between out-of-pocket expenditure and health-related quality of life among patients receiving cancer treatment: a cross-sectional study from Nepal

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Background The financial burden of cancer care may significantly impair patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL), yet the extent and nature of this relationship remain underexplored, particularly in low-resource settings.
Pratik Khanal, Suman Sapkota, Nirmal Poudel, Achyut Raj Pandey, Bidwata Bhattarai, Etna Khatiwada, Ravi Kant Mishra, Biraj Man Karmacharya, Shiva Raj Adhikari, Kjell Arne Johansson, Krishna Kumar Aryal   +10 more
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Biases distorting priority setting

Health Policy, 2020
Modern health care faces an ever widening gap between technological possibilities and available resources. To handle this challenge we have constructed elaborate systems for health policy making and priority setting. Despite such systems many health care systems provide a wide range of documented low-value care while being unable to afford emerging ...
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Hospital Community Benefits After the ACA: Partnerships for Community Health Improvement [PDF]

, 2012
Examines states' and localities' efforts to promote community health and systemic change through collaborations focused on community health needs assessments, priority setting, strategic planning, and the implementation of health improvement ...
Carl H. Mueller, Cynthia L. Boddie-Willis, Donna C. Folkemer, Elyse R. Grossman, Martha H. Somerville   +4 more
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Health research priority setting in Zambia: a stock taking of approaches conducted from 1998 to 2015 [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Priority setting in health research is an emerging field. In Zambia, like many other African countries, various priority setting activities have been undertaken with a view to identify research activities to which the available resources can ...
Busiku Hamainza, Lydia Kapiriri, Pascalina Chanda-Kapata, William Ngosa   +3 more
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Setting priorities in health care organizations: criteria, processes, and parameters of success [PDF]

, 2004
BACKGROUND: Hospitals and regional health authorities must set priorities in the face of resource constraints. Decision-makers seek practical ways to set priorities fairly in strategic planning, but find limited guidance from the literature.
Jennifer L Gibson, Douglas K Martin, Peter A Singer, CR Mitton, L Kapiriri, A PausJenssen, C Ham, R Foy, T Hope, R Deber, S Holm, D Martin, R Cookson, EJ Emanuel, G Mooney, C Mitton, S Farrar, PM Mullen, N Daniels, N Daniels, R Klein, PA Singer, C Ham, C Mitton, O Norheim, D Martin, A PausJenssen, LB Russel, S Jan, DK Martin   +29 more
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Setting Healthcare Priorities at the Macro and Meso Levels: A Framework for Evaluation [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015
Background Priority setting in healthcare is a key determinant of health system performance. However, there is no widely accepted priority setting evaluation framework. We reviewed literature with the aim of developing and proposing a framework for the
Edwine W. Barasa, Sassy Molyneux, Mike English, Susan Cleary   +3 more
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Departures from cost-effectiveness recommendations: The impact of health system constraints on priority setting [PDF]

, 2015
The methods and application of cost-effectiveness analysis have reached an advanced stage of development. Many decision makers consider cost-effectiveness analysis to be a valid and feasible approach towards setting health priorities, and it has been ...
Hauck, KD, Smith, PC, Thomas, R
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Duty to treat and perceived risk of contagion during the COVID-19 pandemic: Norwegian physicians’ perspectives and experiences—a questionnaire survey

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background The COVID-19 pandemic actualised the dilemma of how to balance physicians´ obligation to treat patients and their own perceived risk of being infected.
Karin Isaksson Rø, Morten Magelssen, Fredrik Bååthe, Ingrid Miljeteig, Berit Bringedal   +4 more
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Extending the Cooperative Phenotype: Assessing the Stability of Cooperation across Countries

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
This paper studies whether individual cooperation is stable across settings and over time. Involving more than 7,000 subjects on two different continents, this study documents positive correlation in cooperative behavior across economic games in Norway ...
Amanda G. Reigstad, Eirik A. Strømland, Gustav Tinghög, Gustav Tinghög   +3 more
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A pedagogic appraisal of the Priority Heuristic [PDF]

, 2012
We have explored how science and mathematics teachers made decisions when confronted with a dilemma in which a fictitious young woman, Deborah, may choose to have an operation that might address a painful spinal condition. We sought to explore the extent
A Bechara, BE Hilbig, C Sunstein, Cristina Yogui, D Pratt, Dave Pratt, E Brandstätter, E Cokely, EJ Johnson, G Gigerenzer, G Loewenstein, J Neumann von, K Fiedler, K Katsikopoulos, K Katsikopoulos, LJ Savage, M Friedman, MH Birnbaum, MO Rieger, P Mongin, Phillip Kent, R Levinson, Ralph Levinson, Ramesh Kapadia, T Wengraf, U Flick   +25 more
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