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/HIV patients were preferably contacted. The physicians were asked to assess their view of patient preferences of therapy … from a previous study in which AIDS/HIV patients were asked to assess their treatment preferences. Results: 131 physicians … emotional quality of life had by far the strongest impact on the patients’ treatment preferences as rated by physicians. With …
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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 …
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Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … discover diferential treatment styles driven by physicians' perceived liability risk among patients with a diferent critical … gynaecologists/obstetricians and orthopaedists randomly to four hypothetical video consultations, in which the patients show either a …
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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 …
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performance reports among referring physicians, as well as the usefulness of such reports from the referring physicians …’ perspective. Data sources/Study setting: Primary data collected from a survey with 277 referring physicians (response rate = 26 … practices were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: (1) physicians in the control arm could become aware of the …
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Teleemergency doctors support ambulance cars at the emergency site by means of telemedicine. Currently, each district has its own teleemergency doctor office (decentralized solution). This paper analyses the advantages and disadvantages of a centralized solution where several teleemergency...
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Background: In recent years, policymakers have sought to reduce health disparities between the insured and uninsured through a federal health insurance expansion policy; however, disparities continue to persist among the insured population. One potential explanation is that the use of healthcare...
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Background: Lymphoedema is a pandemic with about 250 million people suffering from this condition worldwide. Lymphatic diseases have considerable public health significance, but yet few professionals are specialised in their management causing a substantial burden on health resources. Aims and...
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-of-pocket (OOP) payment still remains the main source of funding for healthcare in Bangladesh. The association between barriers to … accessing healthcare and over-reliance on OOP payments has not been explored in Bangladesh using nationally representative … household survey data. This study is a novel attempt to examine the burden of OOP payment and forgone healthcare in Bangladesh …
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is not always sustained beyond the end of funding. This study empirically assesses the efect of control and trust on the … develop a system model to analyze the infuence of trust and control on performance and satisfaction of the cooperation …. Findings Both control and trust are important prerequisites for sustainability, control mainly for the performance of the …
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