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Acceptability to general practitioners of national health insurance and capitation as a reimbursement mechanism.

open access: yesSouth African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 1996
To determine general practitioners' attitudes to national health insurance (NHI) and to capitation as a mechanism of reimbursement. To explore determinants of these attitudes.Cross-sectional survey by means of telephone interviews; four focus group discussions.Cape Peninsula.174 GPs randomly sampled from a total population of 874.Acceptance of NHI ...
Blecher, M.S.   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Building Medical Homes in State Medicaid and CHIP Programs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Presents strategies, best practices, and lessons learned from ten states' efforts to advance the medical home model of comprehensive and coordinated care in Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs in order to improve quality and contain ...
Mary Takach, Neva Kaye
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Policy Networks and Policy Entrepreneurship in the EU: Explaining Structural Policy Change in Pharmaceutical Innovation Incentives and Health Technology Assessment

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy process research has excelled in explaining structural policy change within national settings, but extensions and applications to the EU level have long proven challenging for scholars. Given that the EU is currently experiencing its longest period of Treaty stability since the 1980s—having evolved into a sui generis political system ...
Vassilis Karokis‐Mavrikos
wiley   +1 more source

Health System Reform: The Value and Price of Innovation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Explores the role of innovation in healthcare by reviewing the literature on international, federal, state, and local examples of system change; barriers to change; the contributions of research, academia, and industry; and the financing of ...
Samuel O. Thier
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The Distributive Consequences of Active Welfare Policies in Europe

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the distributive consequences of active welfare policies in Europe by analysing tier‐specific investments in individualised employment services across four European welfare states: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Deborah Jackwerth‐Rice   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic evaluation of inpatient medication reconciliation with a subtraction strategy

open access: yesHealth Economics Review
Background University-based hospitals in Thailand face increasing financial strain due to insufficient reimbursement for inpatient care. The public health financing system comprises three major schemes: the Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS), Social ...
Nontakorn Khomsanoi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Can Employment-Based Benefits Help the Nursing Shortage?: Executive Summary [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Summarizes a study of the benefits available to registered nurses; trends in health insurance and retirement plan enrollment; and the role benefits play in recruitment and retention.
Joanne Spetz, Sara Adams
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L‐Relationship between uncertainty and average seizure frequency in clinical trials of antiseizure medications

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Antiseizure medications are approved based on clinical trials that demonstrate their efficacy as measured by reductions in seizure frequency (SF). When designing these trials, trialists must select inclusion criteria where SF can be reliably measured to maintain statistical power.
Wesley T. Kerr   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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