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Concerns for Equity and the Optimal Co-Payments for Publicly Provided Health Care [PDF]
In countries where health care is publicly provided and where equity considerations play an important role in policy decisions, it is often argued that an increase in co-payments is unacceptable as it will be particularly harmful to the less well-off in ...
Michael Hoel
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Illness Severity among Non-English, Non-Spanish Speaking Patients in a Public Emergency Department [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) have poor health outcomes compared to English proficient patients. Most studies on language proficiency and health disparities focus on Spanish.
Dirvonas, Tyler, M.D. +4 more
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Refractory Status Epilepticus Treated With Bilateral Pulvinar Deep Brain Stimulation—A Case Study
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT New‐onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) arises without an identifiable cause or prior epilepsy history, with a 16%–27% mortality rate and significant long‐term neurological sequelae. Neuromodulation such as deep brain stimulation (DBS) targeting the anterior and centromedian thalamic nuclei has shown promise when the traditional ...
Mengxuan Tang +16 more
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Respiratory Research, 2019 Background Respiratory pathology is a major driver of mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU), even in the absence of a primary respiratory diagnosis.
Stefanie E. Mason +12 more
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Functional Connectivity Linked to Cognitive Recovery After Minor Stroke
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Patients with minor stroke exhibit slowed processing speed and generalized alterations in functional connectivity involving frontoparietal cortex (FPC). The pattern of connectivity evolves over time. In this study, we examine the relationship of functional connectivity patterns to cognitive performance, to determine ...
Vrishab Commuri +7 more
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Salud UIS, 2011 Introducción: La discapacidad en dengue ha sido poco descrita en la literatura científica. Objetivos: Determinar la frecuencia de la discapacidad en dengue y su asociación con severidad.
Diana Carolina Tiga Loza +2 more
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Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2013 The accelerometer data from mobile smart phones provide stochastic trajectories that change over time. This rate of change is unique to each person and can be well characterized by the continuous two-parameter family of Gamma probability distributions ...
Elizabeth B Torres
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Early clinical predictors and correlates of long-term morbidity in bipolar disorder [PDF]
, 2017 OBJECTIVES: Identifying factors predictive of long-term morbidity should improve clinical planning limiting disability and mortality associated with bipolar disorder (BD).
Baldessarini, R. J. +8 more
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Discovery and Targeted Proteomic Studies Reveal Striatal Markers Validated for Huntington's Disease
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Clinical trials for Huntington's disease (HD) enrolling persons before clinical motor diagnosis (CMD) lack validated biomarkers. This study aimed to conduct an unbiased discovery analysis and a targeted examination of proteomic biomarkers scrutinized by clinical validation. Methods Cerebrospinal fluid was obtained from PREDICT‐HD and
Daniel Chelsky +8 more
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Attributes and weights in health care priority setting: a systematic review of what counts and to what extent [PDF]
, 2015 In most societies resources are insufficient to provide everyone with all the health care they want. In practice, this means that some people are given priority over others. On what basis should priority be given?
Butler, James R.G. +4 more
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