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Assessing the transition from intravenous to subcutaneous delivery of rituximab: Benefits for payers, health care professionals, and patients with lymphoma.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
Subcutaneous (SC) administration of rituximab provides an opportunity for reduced patient treatment burden and increased healthcare efficiencies as an alternative to intravenous (IV) rituximab. There is minimal evidence comparing costs associated with SC
Michael J Harvey   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

United States Physician Preferences Regarding Healthcare Financing Options: A Multistate Survey

open access: yesPharmacy, 2018
Background: Not much is currently known about United States (US) physicians’ opinions about healthcare financing, specifically subsequent to the creation and implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Shamima Khan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Collective Bargaining and Technological Investment: The Case of Nurses’ Unions and the Transition from Paper-Based to Electronic Health Records [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Does the presence of a unionized nursing workforce retard U.S. hospitals’ transition from paper-based to electronic health records (EHRs)? After tying archival data on hospitals’ structural features and health information technology (IT) investment ...
Litwin, Adam Seth
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Prostate Cancer Lesions by Zone and Race: Does Multiparametric MRI Demonstrate Racial Difference in Prostate Cancer Lesions for African American Men?

open access: yesCurrent Oncology, 2021
African American (AA) men have increased risk of prostate cancer diagnosis and mortality, but the cause remains unknown. MRI fusion improves diagnosis of localized prostate cancer, particularly in anterior lesions; however, cost and access are limited in
Christopher R. Koller   +6 more
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Why people select the outpatient clinic of medical centers: a nationwide analysis in Taiwan [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2020
Introduction In contrast to other countries, Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) program allows patients to freely select the specialists and tiers of medical care facility without a referral.
Ming-Hwai Lin   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Removing anonymity protection and utilization review decisions: a real-world case under a single-payer health system

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
The effects of anonymity on utilization review has never been examined in the real world. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of removing anonymity protection for claims reviewers on their review decisions.
Chih-Kuang Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why single-payer health systems spark endless debate [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 2007
Whenever Americans lapse into their periodic “conversations” on health reform, a single-payer health system is proposed by some as the panacea and condemned by others as “socialised medicine.” Rarely are the pros and cons of single-payer systems fairly debated. In single-payer health systems, the entire population shares one health insurance carrier,
openaire   +2 more sources

Does a public single payer system deliver integrated care? A national survey study among professional stakeholders in Denmark

open access: yesInternational Journal of Integrated Care, 2008
Background: Integrated health care delivery is a goal of health care systems; to date there has been limited information on the integration of medical care in practice.
Martin Strandberg-Larsen, Allan Krasnik
doaj   +3 more sources

Health care service utilization among patients with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis in a single payer healthcare system.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundThis study aims to investigate the differences in the utilization of healthcare services between patients with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC) and patients without using a population-based database in Taiwan.MethodsThis ...
Shiu-Dong Chung   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Variations in Care and Real-world Outcomes in Individuals With Rectal Cancer: Protocol for the Ontario Rectal Cancer Cohort

open access: yesJMIR Research Protocols, 2022
BackgroundIndividuals with rectal cancer require a number of pretreatment investigations, often require multidisciplinary treatment, and require ongoing follow-ups after treatment is completed. Due to the complexity of treatments,
Sunil Patel   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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