Báo cáo y học: "Capacity utilization and the cost of primary care visits: Implications for the costs of scaling up health interventions" pdf

... policy decisions should not be based on the results of costing studies that do not report capacity utilization or that base the analysis of the cost of scaling up on current costs of providing care. Competing ... to measure the impact of the level of capacity utilization, in this case patient load, on the cost of a visit to a primary health care...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... care; and (7) all other care. Reimbursed amounts (including any patient liability, such as co-pays and co-insurance) were used in all analyses of health -care costs. Healthcare utilization and costs ... efficacy, safety, and tolerability [9,10]. While benzodiazepines were the mainstay of GAD treatment for many years because of their favorable tolerability and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... a secondary analysis of data from the Somaliland GYTS conducted in 2004. The Somaliland GYTS was a school-based survey of students in public primary classes 6 to 8, and Secondary 1. These classes ... any of your classes about the effects of smoking like it makes your teeth yellow, causes wrinkles, or makes you smell bad?; During the past year, did any health professional...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:21

... School; Kelly J. Kelleher, Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health, and Psychiatry, Colleges of Medicine and Public Health, and Department of Psychiatry, The Ohio State University, Vice President for Health ... Institute of Mental Health; Julie Magno Zito, Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Psychiatry, Uni- versity of Maryland. Funded by grant U13 MH78722 of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... Since the focus of this questionnaire was to capture the physical activity energy expenditure by type of activity, we used the job titles and descriptors of activity as a means of identifying the ... 1.1 The sum of REE (estimated by the Schofield equation [26]) and activity-related energy expenditure was multiplied by 1.1 to account for the energy expenditure...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... components of the com- plement cascade and a nalyzed the activities of the alter- native complement activation pathways [24]. Serum levels of C3, Factor B and D, hemolytic activity of the alternative ... In the anorexia group, 79% of the patients were women, with a mean age of 32.4 years (SD 12.8). The healthy controls had similar characteristics. At the time...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases as they have the ability to produce high levels of the pro-inflammatory cytokines IFN-γ, IL-1 and TNF, and are cyto- toxic for tissues. For example, ... which may be further complicated by the array of immune cells and pathways which can be altered by these PUFAs [5]. This would explain the variation from study to stu...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... intervention effects on the frequency of medical contacts with healthcare services. Furthermore, the frequency of patients’ crises and the frequency and kind of interventions, initiated by the project nurses ... centres. The participants are asked for the number of stays, the total number of days, and the rea son for admission. During the first tele- phon...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... the pathogenesis of asthma IL-9 was originally described as a mast cell growth factor for its ability to enhance the survival of primary mast cells and to induce their production of the inflammatory cytokine ... contrast, the cytokine genes encoding IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13 map to the syntenic region of mouse chromo- some 11, excluding the linkage of these candidate...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... twisting cytometry (MTC) and changes in cell traction force using Fourier transform traction micro- scopy (FTTM). Finally, scaling up to the level of an intact tissue, we validated the potency of the ... are former employees of Prolexys Pharmaceuticals Inc., and were compensated by the company at the time this work was performed. These employees have no financial arran...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22