future expenditure for care of chronically ill patients is an ever-present challenge for the health care system. New … account to estimate the total occurring costs. It enables the treatment of patients by a physician, a specialist or a clinical … at intensive care units. To rate the severity of symptoms patients can be classified using NYHA groups. To outline some …

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. …

show that when the insurer designs the healthcare payment policy to let hospitals dump high-cost patients, there is a trade …-off between the disutility of dumped patients (changes in hospitals’ rent extraction due to low-severity patients) and the shift … in the level of cost reduction efforts for high-severity patients. We also clarify the welfare-improving conditions by …

< .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 …

innovative policies, which improve operational efciency and achieve the best value for money for patients. This study aims to … develop a Decision Support Tool (DST) that assesses the impact of implementing new DVT patients’ management and care policies … was validated and verifed by various stakeholders and two policies, namely shifting more patients to community services …

epilepsy patients. Methods A systematic literature review using PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus databases from database incep … attributes of pharmacological and surgical interventions in patients diagnosed with epilepsy or the parents/carers of children … the review. The majority of studies explored patients' preferences, and two compared the preferences of patients with …

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 treated in 2015. Employing a random utility choice model, we estimate the infuence of RAS as well as specialization …