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Geographic variation in inpatient care utilization, outcomes and costs for dementia patients in China
Lin, Zhuoer; Ba, Fang; Allore, Heather; Liu, Gordon G.; … - 2022
Dementia leads public health issue worldwide. China has the largest population of adults living with dementia in the world, imposing increasing burdens on the public health and healthcare systems. Despite improved access to health services, inadequate and uneven dementia management remains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013449379
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Reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion : a discrete choice experiment in the health-care sector
Neumann, Einat (contributor); Neuman, Shoshana (contributor) - 2007
A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally greater when the deviation represents a loss than when the...
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Nurse unions and patient outcomes
Dube, Arindrajit; Kaplan, Ethan; Thompson, Owen - 2014
We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital … hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …
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Healthcare quality and dementia risk
Aravena, José M.; Chen, Xi; Levy, Becca R. - 2024
Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can be associated with developing dementia in people...
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Quality and accountability of Large Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) : a simulated patient study using ChatGPT
Si, Yafei; Yang, Yuji; Wang, Xi; An, Ruopeng; Zu, Jiaqi; … - 2024
Using simulated patients to mimic nine established non-communicable and infectious diseases over 27 trials, we assess ChatGPT's effectiveness and reliability in diagnosing and treating common diseases in low- and middle-income countries. We find ChatGPT's performance varied within a single...
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The gift of a lifetime : the hospital, modern medicine, and mortality
Hollingsworth, Alex; Thomasson, Melissa A.; Karbownik, … - 2022
of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a … combination of novel data and a unique quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke …
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Health care centralization : the health impacts of obstetric unit closures in the US
Fischer, Stefanie; Royer, Heather; White, Corey D. - 2023
study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference …
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Consequences of ADHD medication use for children's outcomes
Dalsgaard, Søren; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, Marianne - 2014
treated. Results show that children diagnosed with ADHD in pharmacological treatment have fewer hospital contacts if treated …
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Impact of hospital delivery on child mortality : an analysis of adolescent mothers in Bangladesh
Pal, Sarmistha - 2015
The present paper provides new evidence that hospital delivery can significantly lower child mortality risks … 2005 (that enhanced emergency obstetric care in women friendly environment) to identify the causal effect of hospital … welfare clinic boosts hospital delivery likelihood, which in turn tends to lower neo-natal, early and infant mortality rates …
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Re-examining supplier-induced demand in health care: comparisons among patients affiliated and not affiliated with healthcare professionals in China
Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Hu, Han; Yang, Zesen - 2020
Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures between patients affiliated with healthcare...
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