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Preventive Oncology & EpidemiologyIntroduction: Patients without insurance often wait until their symptoms become severe before seeking treatment. While done to avoid the cost of preventative care, this decision leads to uninsured patients presenting with more advanced diseases ...
Hannah-Kaye Carter +7 more
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What We Know About Uninsured Motorists and How Well We Know What We Know [PDF]
The problem posed by the uninsured motorist is of concern to the general public, policyholders, insurance companies, insurance regulators, and legislators.
Khazzoom, J. Daniel
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Pursuing Affordability, Fairness, and Efficiency in the U.S. Commercial Health Insurance Market
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The high cost of health insurance and health care services in the US is affecting not only the uninsured and lower income households, but is beginning to reach into the middle class. Current health insurance benefit designs often fail to address two forms of market failure: poor consumer information and distorted prices.
Minjeong Kang, Bryan E. Dowd
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Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, 2019 The high cost of direct-acting antiviral–based regimens raises concerns about the outcome of treatment in uninsured patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.
Paula Eckardt MD, FACP, AAHIVS +4 more
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Physician Quality and Health Care for the Poor and Uninsured [PDF]
Many studies have documented adverse health outcomes for uninsured patients in U.S. hospitals. These poor outcomes have been attributed to their health status and limited access to healthcare. A measure of treatment that remains unexplored is the quality
Lara Bryant, Sharmila Vishwasrao
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A Discharge Summary Prompt Reduces Postoperative Radiotherapy Delay in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
Head &Neck, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Delays in postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) beyond 6 weeks are associated with worse outcomes in head and neck cancer (HNC). This study evaluated whether a discharge summary prompt could reduce PORT delay. Methods A retrospective review of patients from 2018 to 2023 was used as a pre‐intervention baseline.
Andreja Radevic +10 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2017 BackgroundLow‐density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL‐C) control is higher among insured than uninsured adults, but data on time trends and contributing factors are incomplete and important for improving health equity.
Brent M. Egan +7 more
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Uninsured Spells of the Poor: Prevalence and Duration [PDF]
The number of persons in the United States without health insurance, particularly those lacking private health insurance, is increasing. Although there is a large body of research documenting the insurance status of people in poverty at a point in time ...
T. D. McBride
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Head &Neck, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) improves locoregional control and survival in high‐risk head and neck cancer, and guidelines recommend initiation within 42 days of surgery. Timeliness after laryngectomy for pathologic T4 (pT4) laryngeal cancer is poorly characterized.
George Ashji +9 more
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