implementing measures of medical care economic burden and risk

... productivity of medical care, such as age and education, and those that only affect health through their influence on which and what type of medical care to obtain Factors such as medical care prices, ... endowments, and µf is a vector of family-level and individual level constraints, µc is a set of constraints at the community-level, and z and p are the quality and price of all available medical care ... 1994 Relation of the content of prenatal care to the risk of low birth weight Maternal reports of health behavior advice and initial prenatal care procedures Journal of the American Medical Association,...

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... literature on the costs and economic implications of ADHD, there have been few studies that investigate the impact of ADHD on comorbid conditions and limited studies on the economics of ADHD in the inpatient ... children vs 0.10% of control children; 3.71% of ADHD adolescents vs 0.64% of control adolescents), and depressive disorder (2.73% of ADHD children vs 0.08% of control children; 5.19% of ADHD adolescents ... to other care settings A number of other studies have used methods similar to those employed in our analysis Trasande and colleagues studied the burden of obesity on pregnant women and found...

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... Concepts of Medical Care Economic Burden and Risk Concepts of Resources Measures of Medical Care Economic Risk and Recommended Approach Data Sources Implementing Measures of Medical Care Economic Burden ... the value-added of developing a new measure of medical care economic risk MEDICAL CARE ECONOMIC BURDEN Medical care economic burden measures what individuals and families spend out-ofpocket for ... example, we addressed medical care and not all aspects of health and health care; we addressed issues of financial risk of medical care and not all medical care risks; and we focused on survey...

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... Director and Chief Medical Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services GARY GOTTLIEB, President of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical ... PINCUS, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Senior Scientist and Director, RAND–University of Pittsburgh Health Institute, the RAND ... “Patient-Centered Care/ Self-Directed Care: Legal, Policy and Programmatic Considerations”; Mark D Weist, of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Carl E Paternite, PhD, of Miami University (Ohio), and...

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... policy and the process and frequency for the assessment, monitoring and review of this policy; and iii the processes and techniques for the measurement and management of risk including the use of ... supervision of its senior management and for the assessment and periodical review of the adequacy and effectiveness of the risk management process and of the policies, arrangements and procedures ... the building up of an internal loss database as the basis for the assessment of the operational risk profile of the AIFM Liability risk is considered to be part of operational risk and should therefore...

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... accounting for over 80 percent of all merchandise trade between the U.S and our FTA partners and 28 percent of all U.S merchandise trade in 2009 In the first 13 years of NAFTA, U.S GDP grew more ... New Zealand and Sweden have independent judiciaries that secure private ownership of property and enforcement of contracts The government operates as an impartial arbiter of disputes and is rarely, ... measure of the extent of corruption, an indirect measure based on citizens’ perceptions of the level of corruption in society One of the CPI’s largest components is a series of measurements of the...

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... thinly populated and unattractive to physicians In response to its chronic deficiency of medical access, the province introduced a state-sponsored healthcare system to provide care for its citizens ... shortage resulted from the military draft and the vast expansion of arms production To attract workers in the face of strict price and wage controls, factories offered fringe benefits, among them health ... physicians account for most of the massive variation in Medicare costs that are born in different parts of the country and were described so well recently by Atul Gawande [3] These decisions are...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... view of the fundamentals of biotechnology and genetic engineering, the processes used in developing transgenic organisms, the types of genetic material used, and the benefits and risks of the ... pests and diseases, and reduced cost of production Biotechnology, in the form of genetic engineering, is a facet of science that has the potential to provide important benefits if used carefully and ... biotics is a serious medical concern of some opponents of genetic engineering technology The potential risk of transfer from plants to bacteria is substantially less than the risk of normal transfer...

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... quality of care at the facilities and late health care seeking behaviour [6-8] A possible barrier to accessing case management care in Kenya is the costs of treatment, but knowledge of such costs ... involved recording the length of hospital stay (by type of department), the quantity of pharmaceuticals and supplies used by each patient, and the use of diagnostic tests and other specialized services ... diagnostic group would allow reporting of results around a mean cost of US$ 100 with estimated precision represented by a standard error of US$ and 95% confidence interval of ± US$ 12 Hence, we aimed to...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... people with long-term illness and has been found to be reliable and valid [11,12] The W-BQ12 and MyMOP2 are two patient-centred outcome measures that are part of a set of five questionnaires that ... Table The MYMOP2 scales of Symptom and Profile showed a moderate negative correlation with the General Wellbeing (GWB) and Energy scales of the W-BQ12 The Wellbeing scale of the MYMOP2 had a strong ... findings of the SF-36 [1] Based on this and the observational findings of this study, the MYMOP2 has potential as a clinically useful tool to assess chiropractic care in terms of health status and...

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... laboratory values and level of care (full care, full care without cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), comfort care) Severity of illness at inception (within the first day of ICU admission) was ... incidence of hyponatraemia and that patients with surgical and neurological/trauma diagnoses are at increased risk of developing hyponatraemia compared with medical patients, but at similar risk of ... NS NS Level of care Full care 1.00 Full care, but no CPR 1.23 (1.09 to 1.39) 0.001 Comfort care 1.35 (1.07 to 1.70) 0.010 *Time-independent (age, baseline creatinine, random glucose) and time-dependent...

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... Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Alexandra Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Greece 2Department of Clinical and Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, School of Medicine, ... better in terms of stable postoperative course and length of stay in the Intensive Care Unit for those patients offered such major operations Moreover, measures such as Epoietin Alpha and pressure ... transfusion Awareness and incorporation of such interventions is mandatory and should be followed by all surgeons and all patients have the right to benefit from the application of these measures Gynecologic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... Baicker K and Chandra A., (2004), Medicare spending, The physician workforce, and the quality of health care received by Medicare bene…ciaries Health A¤airs, 184-197 [6] Barro R.J., and Sala-i-Martin ... engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the ... depends on health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and medical innovation Our first set of regressions include a set of observed medical technologies by country Our second set of regressions...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

... status of demand, access to and use of medical services for elderly people and ability to meet of commune health stations in Binh Duong Province, 2010 4.1.1 On the demand, access to and use of medical ... consulting and EL health care; - Model of EL health care in the community; - Models of EL health care at commune health facilities; - Model of EL health care in the hospital; - Models of nursing home care ... EL, the burden of health care spending, health services network for EL was weak and below the health care needs of EL 4.1.1.3 On the use of medical services for elderly people On the use of health...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 14:07

... the awareness of chronic pain and comorbidities in FM patients, the impact on their daily lives, and the resulting socioeconomic burden Furthermore, costs and the socioeconomic burden have to ... treatment and that this would decrease the costs due to utilization of healthcare and nonhealthcare resources, it is economically unwise to have no medication approved for the treatment of FM in ... higher prevalence of comorbidities than the reference population, had six more yearly medical visits, and showed a higher average of work days missed They also revealed a higher use of pain-related...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:21

... physicians to deliver medical care) and medical tourism (travel abroad by patients to receive medical care) The terms ‘voluntourism’ and medical tourism’ can both be seen as pejorative and normatively ... The Future of Health Care in Canada Saskatoon: Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada; 2002 69 Scotland NHS: The NHS and You Scotland; 2006 70 Virginia Department of Health and Human ... ensure medical care for the poor and infirm; and during the latter part of the Industrial Revolution several social, professional and religious associations or guilds also contributed a set sum of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... physical and mental health of the caregivers, but it also disrupts their quality of life (QOL) If medical institutions understand the stress experienced by their staff and their basic needs and values, ... neat and clean American Journal of Nursing Science 2013; 2(4): 40-49 43 Table Personal backgrounds of Vietnamese care attendants and analysis of the differences among various dimensions of occupational ... was higher when the number of daily work hours was between and 10, rather than between 11 and 12, and was higher when the number of patients cared for during the day and night was 6-10,rather...

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... Oct 2010 and had three main objectives: (1) assessment of the number of victims of sexual violence seeking medical care in the hospitals of Goma; (2) assessment of the availability of key resources ... District Office Goma, Jan 2011) Considering that many victims of sexual violence never seek medical care and that some who seek medical care so at smaller hospitals or clinics outside of Goma, ... expenses of the authors Baelani and Dünser Conflict and Health 2011, 5:2 http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/5/1/2 Page of Author details Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... hospitals in Australian and New Zealand Team (MET) status of 172 Flow diagram of the Medical Emergency with intensive care units hospitals in Australian and New Zealand with intensive care units The diagram ... trial of a medical emergency team Med J Aust 2003, 179:283-287 Buist MD, Moore GE, Bernard SA, Waxman BP, Anderson JN, Nguyen TV: Effects of a medical emergency team on reduction of incidence of and ... intensive care unit; MET, Medical Emergency Team; SD, standard deviation *Data from the 12 months before and after introduction of an MET service into 29 hospitals in Australia and New Zealand Table...

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