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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

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
doaj   +1 more source

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

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 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

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

Chaoulli v. Quebec: Testing the Single-Payer System

open access: yesAMA Journal of Ethics, 2005
The Canadian Supreme Court has determined that the ban imposed by Quebec on the use of private medical insurance violated the province's Charter of Rights. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
Albert J, Schumacher   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Health‐Related Social Needs in Children With Sickle Cell Disease Are Associated With Worse Health‐Related Quality of Life

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) face multiple acute and chronic medical complications that may impact their quality of life as reported by patients themselves. Health‐related social needs (HRSNs), such as food and housing insecurity, are common in people with SCD, but the association between HRSNs and patient‐reported ...
Sarah J. Marks   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Single-Payer Health Care Reform: Cost Considerations in Maine

open access: yesMaine Policy Review
One of the suggested reforms of our troubled health care system is the publicly funded universal health care, or single-payer, model; one of the arguments against it is its presumed cost. Using 2020 data for Maine (the most complete recent data available)
Daniel Bryant
doaj   +1 more source

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