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

Pharmacy, 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, Joshua J. Spooner, Harlan E. Spotts   +2 more
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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?

Current 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, Jacob W. Greenberg, Thomas M. Shelton, William M. Hughes, Ganesh Sanekommu, Jonathan Silberstein, Louis S. Krane   +6 more
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Why people select the outpatient clinic of medical centers: a nationwide analysis in Taiwan [PDF]

PeerJ, 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, Hsiao-Ting Chang, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Shinn-Jang Hwang   +3 more
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Removing anonymity protection and utilization review decisions: a real-world case under a single-payer health system

Scientific 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, Shih-Jung Chien, Po-Chang Lee, Shou-Hsia Cheng   +3 more
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Does a public single payer system deliver integrated care? A national survey study among professional stakeholders in Denmark

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

PLoS 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, Shih-Ping Liu, Hsien-Chang Li, Herng-Ching Lin   +3 more
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Lessons for the United States From Single-Payer Systems

American Journal of Public Health, 2019
US political debates often refer to the experience of “single-payer” systems such as those of Canada and the United Kingdom. We argue that single payer is not a very useful category in comparative health policy analysis but that the experiences of countries such as Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, and Australia provide useful lessons.
Scott L, Greer, Holly, Jarman, Peter D, Donnelly   +2 more
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The Variations in Care and Real-world Outcomes in Individuals With Rectal Cancer: Protocol for the Ontario Rectal Cancer Cohort

JMIR 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, Chad McClintock, Christopher Booth, Shaila Merchant, Carl Heneghan, Clare Bankhead   +5 more
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Carcinomas and Carcinoid Tumors of the Lungs and Bronchi in Children and Adolescents: The EXPeRT Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Sabine Irtan, Yves Reguerre, Malgorzata Krawczyk, Ewa Bien, Tal Ben‐Ami, Maja Cesen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Dominik T. Schneider, Abbas Agaimy, Constantin Lapa, Hubert Ducou le Pointe, Rainer Claus, Catherine Daniel, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +19 more
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Single-Payer Health Care Reform: Cost Considerations in Maine

Maine 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
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