How Does Payer Mix and Technical Inefficiency Affect Hospital Net Revenue? [PDF]
As changes in the US health care system continue to evolve and change, maintaining the financial viability of hospitals is crucial to the system’s operation. Two lines of inquiry have been pursued in describing factors affecting financial viability.
Hervé Leleu +2 more
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The Impact of Health Care Reform on California's Children in Immigrant Families [PDF]
, 2011 Examines how 2010 reform provisions limit coverage options for noncitizens and may deter immigrant parents from enrolling citizen children and how the exclusion of uninsured children in immigrant families may affect community clinics and public ...
Livier Cabezas +2 more
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Neuropsychiatric Symptoms Mimicking Dementia in a Patient Treated With Imatinib
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tyrosine kinase inhibitors are the cornerstone of chronic myeloid leukemia treatment. Newer agents have more potency and a broader spectrum of action, but also a higher potential for neuropsychiatric side effects. We present a case of a patient on imatinib who developed progressive cognitive, mood, and behavioral alterations.
Ashley Jones +3 more
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Shared Genetic Effects and Antagonistic Pleiotropy Between Multiple Sclerosis and Common Cancers
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Epidemiologic studies have reported inconsistent altered cancer risk in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). Factors such as immune dysregulation, comorbidities, and disease‐modifying therapies may contribute to this variability.
Asli Buyukkurt +5 more
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Can Governments Do It Better? Merger Mania and Hospital Outcomes in the English NHS [PDF]
The literature on mergers between private hospitals suggests that such mergers often produce little benefit. Despite this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger.
Carol Propper +2 more
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Predicting Loss of Ambulation in Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy R9
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type R9 (LGMDR9) results from biallelic variants in FKRP. There is limited data to predict loss of ambulation (LOA) among those with LGMDR9. Methods Participants in an ongoing dystroglycanopathy natural history study (NCT00313677) with FKRP variants who had achieved ambulation and were more than 3 ...
Chandra L. Miller +6 more
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An institutional sociology perspective of the implementation of activity based costing by Spanish health care institutions [PDF]
According to institutional sociology, hospitals will respond to external environmental pressures and adopt Activity-Based-Costing (ABC). This theory overemphasizes conformity and fails to consider the advantages of organizational non-conformance.
Eriksen, Scott D., Urrutia, Ignacio
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Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health From Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism, 2009 [PDF]
, 2009 Based on ten indicators, assesses progress in the readiness of states, federal government, and hospitals to respond to public health emergencies, with a focus on the H1N1 flu.
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Applying an Ethical Lens to the Treatment of People With Multiple Sclerosis
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The practice of neurology requires an understanding of clinical ethics for decision‐making. In multiple sclerosis (MS) care, there are a wide range of ethical considerations that may arise. These involve shared decision‐making around selection of a disease‐modifying therapy (DMT), risks and benefits of well‐studied medications in comparison to
Methma Udawatta, Farrah J. Mateen
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Public problems: private solutions? Short-term contracting of inpatient hospital care [PDF]
Executive summary Public patients are routinely being treated in Australian private hospitals. Some jurisdictions have large-scale, planned programs where private or not-for-profit hospitals are contracted by the public sector to treat public inpatients
Anne-Marie Boxall +2 more
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