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An empirical study of the impact of generic drug competition on drug market prices in China

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionGeneric substitution is encouraged to reduce pharmaceutical spending in China, and with incentive policies, the market size of the generic drug continues to rise.
Chen Yina, Liu Pengcheng, Nie Haomiao, Cao Yang   +3 more
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Envisioning Post-pandemic Digital Neurological, Psychiatric and Mental Health Care

Frontiers in Digital Health, 2021
The SARS-Cov-2 pandemic placed a dramatic burden on managed healthcare and perhaps nowhere as evident as in neurological and psychiatric disease care.
Amit Khanna, Graham B. Jones, Graham B. Jones   +2 more
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The evaluation of a Taiwanese training program in smoking cessation and the trainees' adherence to a practice guideline

BMC Public Health, 2010
Background The Taiwanese government began reimbursement for smoking cessation in 2002. Certification from a training program was required for physicians who wanted reimbursement. The program certified 6,009 physicians till 2007.
Leung Kai-Kuen, Chang Chih-Jen, Hung Ling-Yu, Guo Fei-Ran, Chen Ching-Yu   +4 more
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Incentives and Pharmaceutical Reimbursement Reforms in Spain [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
The aim of this paper is to assess whether cost containment has been affected by recent pharmaceutical reimbursement reforms that have been introduced in the Spanish health care system over the period 1996-2002, under the conservative Popular Party Government.
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Incentives to transfer patients under alternative reimbursement mechanisms [PDF]

Journal of Public Economics, 1988
Alternative hospital reimbursement systems may influence the frequency and timing of patient transfers between hospitals as well as the patient's length of stay. This paper examines the characteristics of reimbursement systems that result in efficient and equitable transfers and efficient lengths of stay.
Randall P. Ellis, Christopher J. Ruhm
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Incentive Mechanism Design for Integrated Microgrids in Peak Ramp Minimization Problem

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2018
Due to the high levels of renewable integration into the future power system, matching supply to demand becomes much more challenging, which requires system operators to have sufficient ramping flexibility to respond to the huge demand-supply gap when ...
H. Nguyen, A. Khodaei, Zhu Han
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Optimizing Postoperative Opioid Prescribing Through Quality-Based Reimbursement

JAMA Network Open, 2019
This quality improvement study examines the use of a novel reimbursement incentive for surgeons to counsel patients on an opioid-sparing pathway for postoperative pain management.
Ryan Howard, Alexander K. Hallway, Jessica R. Santos-Parker, Joceline V. Vu, J. Waljee, C. Brummett, M. Englesbe   +6 more
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Incentives for telehealthcare deployment that support integrated care: a comparative analysis across eight European countries

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2013
Introduction: Health care systems are struggling to deal with the increasing demands of an older population. In an attempt to find a solution to these demands, there has been a shift towards integrated care supported by information and communication ...
Maria Lluch
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Has the Janani Suraksha Yojana (a conditional maternity benefit transfer scheme) succeeded in reducing the economic burden of maternity in rural India? Evidence from the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh

Journal of Public Health Research, 2018
Background. One of the constraints in the utilisation of maternal healthcare in India is the out-of-pocket expenditure. To improve the utilisation and to reduce the out-of-pocket expenditure, India launched a cash incentive scheme, Janani Suraksha Yojana
Saradiya Mukherjee, Aditya Singh
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Effect of a one-time financial incentive on linkage to chronic hypertension care in Kenya and Uganda: A randomized controlled trial.

PLoS ONE, 2022
BackgroundFewer than 10% of people with hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa are diagnosed, linked to care, and achieve hypertension control. We hypothesized that a one-time financial incentive and phone call reminder for missed appointments would increase
Matthew D Hickey, Asiphas Owaraganise, Norton Sang, Fredrick J Opel, Erick Wafula Mugoma, James Ayieko, Jane Kabami, Gabriel Chamie, Elijah Kakande, Maya L Petersen, Laura B Balzer, Moses R Kamya, Diane V Havlir   +12 more
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