population of diabetes patients in 2011 (N = 318,729) were applied. Patients’ unique personal identification number enabled … contributing factors was applied. Differences in diabetes patients’ health care utilization patterns suggest that use of services … is threefold: 1) to quantify inequality in diabetes health care service utilization; 2) to understand determinants of …

diabetes self management scheme that provides a cost-effective way to monitor diabetic patients … boxes, more or less: Rigid devices that stick out because they don't conform to the human shape. Diabetes mellitus (DM …), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged …

increasing with the distance of the patient from the hospital. This result explains why patients located far from the specialty …The use of telemedicine to improve patients’ health has been evolving rapidly over the past few years. Initially, our … clinical research focus was on the development of effective ways for treating chronically ill patients, mostly suffering from …

center in Taiwan. The subjects were chronic patients with regular hospital outpatient visits before the Covid-19 outbreak …Introduction This study comprehensively investigates the changes in healthcare utilization among chronic patients with … regular outpatient visits to hospitals after the occurrence of Covid-19. The research examines whether patients altered their …

-2010) panel of Italian data on hospital discharges to assess the determinants of inter-regional mobility and to distinguish …Free patient mobility among autonomous providers has been often considered an effective stimulus for enhancing … national-level) factors. Data on hospital discharges are merged with a set of variables on salient features of hospital care …

between regional authorities and providers of hospital care - as a potential determinant factor for cross border mobility in … private providers not only to meet the internal need of hospital care, but also with the aim of attracting patients' inflows … hospital specialization and/or do not guarantee the same perceived quality of care. The geographical gradient in this context …

cross-border healthcare and achieve cross-border patient mobility without encouraging patients to receive treatment outside …Since the seminal judgment of the Court of Justice in Kohll, the discussion of cross-border mobility has been dominated … by an antagonistic relationship between the national health social contract and the rights of individual patients …