population. We adopted a national healthcare perspective to estimate the cost of cancer for hospital episodes, ED presentations …

Objective: Examine cost-driving factors of schizophrenia in Germany for patients prior- and post-switch from an oral … care. Methods: A single-armed, retrospective, non-interventional pre-post comparison study with 132 patients to compare the …%) compared to the hospitalization rates when treated with oral antipsychotics (55.1%). 18.2% of the patients reported to be …

classification system with well-defined constructs for patients’ and persons’ self-reports on health and healthcare. A literature …, experiences, and satisfaction – have been described in this article. Even though the value of patients’ and persons’ perspectives … researchers, clinicians, patients, and the general population. …

investigates the effects of reducing cost sharing for outpatient services on hospital admissions by exploring a subsidy policy for … hospital admissions, although this effect varies by region. The subsidy reduces the number of overall admissions in low …

Objective: To evaluate the impact of different dissemination channels on the awareness and usage of hospital …: Overall, 68% of respondents recalled hospital performance reports and 21% used them for referral decisions. Physicians from … < .001) but not more likely to be influenced when referring patients into hospitals (OR 1.73; 95% CI 0.72–4.12, p > .05). On …

centralization. Secondly, we analyze if a hospital's use of an RAS system infuenced patients' hospital choice. Methods To analyze RPE … efect model. For investigating RAS systems' infuence on patients' hospital choice, we use patient level data of 4614 RPE … patients' hospital choice is insignifcant or negligible. Conclusions In conclusion, centralization is partly driven by (very …

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … gynaecologists/obstetricians and orthopaedists randomly to four hypothetical video consultations, in which the patients show either a … patients' verbal critical attitude (which indicates patients' intention to take further steps), while keeping constant …

characteristics and HRQoL among advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) patients by linking clinical data of a German CRC … registry to self-reported HRQoL measures from the EQ-5D-5L. Methods: The study sample included patients with advanced or … metastatic CRC currently recruited in the German Tumor Registry Colorectal Cancer. The EQ-5D-5L was administered once to patients …

hospital by a factor rate of 0.621 compared with the length of hospital stays for patients not benefiting from such a treatment … length of hospital stay for individuals with type 2 diabetes. Method We use claim panel data from 2011 to 2015 and provide … drugs among patients with severe diabetes …

An increasing focus on hospital productivity has rendered a need for more thorough knowledge of cost drivers in … hospitals, including a need for quantification of the impact of age, case-mix and other characteristics of patients, as well as … sources: The Vascular Register, the hospital cost database, and the National Patient Register with added DRG-information. The …