Medical insurance
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Pharmacological treatments, primarily oral NSAIDs, constituted 73.9% usage for knee osteoarthritis. Despite the known adverse effects of NSAIDs, they are recommended for KOA management. This study aimed to analyze the cost-effectiveness of hyaluronic acid injections relative to oral medication treatment in patients with KOA from health insurance payer’s perspective.
11p viwalton 02-07-2024 3 1 Download
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Estimate the direct medical costs of treating psoriatic arthritis (PsA), including in-patient and out-patient treatment costs. Methods: The retrospective study follows a prevalence-based approach, collecting all patients with PsA undergoing treatment at the National Hospital of Dermatology and Venereology from July 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022. Data collected included demographic characteristics and costs covered by the social health insurance (SHI).
8p viwalton 02-07-2024 1 1 Download
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Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), especially those with complications, requires lifelong care and incurs substantial expenses. In order to reduce out-of-pocket costs borne by patients, understanding costs including direct non-medical cost is important. This study aims to examine direct non-medical cost and related factors among T2DM with complications.
9p viwalton 02-07-2024 2 1 Download
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The liberalization of markets has lead to record levels of international investments. Icon Group Ltd.'s primary mission is to assist international managers to better plan and implement strategies in a global economy. It does so by providing various specialized industry reports, data bases, publications and services to its clients.
127p vimeyers 29-05-2024 10 2 Download
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The study recommends that the financial survival chain of working youth could be boosted if the concerned parties paid more attention to easing youth involvement in investing in safe investment portfolios as well as providing them with affordable holiday and medical insurance packages. Furthermore, more efforts should be carried out to combine the objective and subjective evaluation of youth wellbeing as it portrays a holistic picture of the current status quo of youth in relation to their well-being.
4p longtimenosee10 26-04-2024 3 1 Download
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This research article analyzes the main sources of financing activities of healthcare organizations, and, using the analytic hierarchy process, conducts a comparative analysis of compulsory health insurance (CHI), voluntary health insurance (VHI), and medical savings accounts (MSAs) as sources of financing for medical care. The necessity of implementing MSA in domestic healthcare financing is substantiated.
10p longtimenosee09 08-04-2024 5 1 Download
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In modern conditions Ukraine has a steady trend of high mortality rates caused by the low level of health care quality. In this regard, it becomes relevant to develop scientific approaches to improving the efficiency of administrative and legal regulation of the health service in the country. The article substantiates the main factors of the efficiency of the administrative and legal regulation of health care in Western Europe. The current state of the health service in Ukraine was analyzed. The key factors of the critical health care state in the country are identified.
15p longtimenosee09 08-04-2024 4 2 Download
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Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy have been remarkable, with many reports on the clinical effects of immune checkpoint inhibitors. Nivolumab has been covered by the national health insurance in Japan as a third-line agent for advanced and recurrent gastric cancer since September 2017.
6p vilazada 31-01-2024 4 2 Download
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Part 2 book "Textbook for the veterinary assistant" includes content: Pharmacology; radiology; surgical assisting; avian, exotics, and rodents; equine; preparing for internships and employment; inventory; euthanasia and pet loss; client management; medical records; occupational safety and health administration; pet health insurance.
105p oursky09 12-11-2023 7 3 Download
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With the availability of health insurance claim data, pharmacovigilance for various drugs has been suggested; however, it is necessary to establish an appropriate analysis method. To detect unintended drug effects and to generate new hypotheses, we conducted a hypothesis-free study to systematically examine the relationship between all prescription nonanticancer drugs and the mortality of colorectal cancer patients.
11p vioracle 29-09-2023 6 2 Download
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Epidemiological surveillance of malaria in France is based on a hospital laboratory sentinel surveillance network. There is no comprehensive population surveillance. The objective of this study was to assess the ability of the French National Health Insurance Information System to support nationwide malaria surveillance in continental France.
8p visteverogers 24-06-2023 8 3 Download
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To determine the effect of health information exchange (HIE) on medication prescribing for hospital inpatients in a cluster-randomized controlled trial, and to examine the prescribing effect of availability of information from a large pharmacy insurance plan in a natural experiment.
7p visteverogers 24-06-2023 3 2 Download
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Geocoding and characterizing geographic, community, and environmental characteristics of study participants is frequently done in epidemiological studies. However, participant addresses are identifiable protected health information (PHI) and geocoding must be conducted in a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act–compliant manner.
6p visteverogers 24-06-2023 5 2 Download
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The Greater Plains Collaborative (GPC) and other PCORnet Clinical Data Research Networks capture healthcare utilization within their health systems. Here, we describe a reusable environment (GPC Reusable Observable Unified Study Environment [GROUSE]) that integrates hospital and electronic health records (EHRs) data with state-wide Medicare and Medicaid claims and assess how claims and clinical data complement each other to identify obesity and related comorbidities in a patient sample.
11p vighostrider 25-05-2023 4 2 Download
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To test the impact of the Diabetes Health Plan (DHP), a diabetes-specific insurance plan that lowers out-of-pocket costs for diabetes-related medications and clinical visits, on adherence to oral hypoglycemic medications among low-income adults with Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM).
8p vigamora 25-05-2023 3 2 Download
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While reducing inequity in health service utilization is an important goal of China’s health system, it has been widely acknowledged that a huge number of rural migrant workers cannot be effectually protected against risks with the New Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance (NCMS).
14p viferrari 28-11-2022 10 2 Download
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South Africa has a dual healthcare system comprising of private and public sectors covering 16% and 84% of the population, respectively. Medical schemes are the primary source of health insurance in the private sector. The aim of this study was to assess members of medical schemes’ perceived knowledge and satisfaction with their medical schemes.
8p viferrari 29-10-2022 5 2 Download
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The study examines the factors affecting health demand in Vietnam, specifically the northern part of Vietnam, based on the 2016 VHLSS dataset. The first results show that individual and household characteristics are impact on the individual's demand for medical services. Second, the study found that purchasing health insurance increased the frequency of medical visits by policyholders and contributed to a reduction in their medical spending.
18p visherylsandberg 18-05-2022 9 1 Download
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The number of patients with Parkinson’s disease among older adults is rapidly increasing. Such patients mostly take medication and require regular physician visits. However, the effect of physician visit frequency for the treatment for Parkinson’s disease has not been evaluated. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of physician visit frequency for Parkinson’s disease treatment on mortality, healthcare days, and healthcare and long-term care costs among older adults.
12p vinobelprisen 26-03-2022 15 4 Download
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Patient medical out-of-pocket expenses are thought to be rising worldwide yet data describing trends over time is scant. We evaluated trends of out-of-pocket expenses for patients in Australia with one of five major cancers in the first-year after diagnosis.
12p vimahuateng 26-11-2021 10 1 Download