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Patient cost-sharing and hospitalization offsets in the elderly
Chandra, Amitabh; Gruber, Jonathan; McKnight, Robin - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 193-213
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358748
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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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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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Patient Autonomy and Education in Specific Medical Knowledge
Lukas, Daniel - 2011
The asymmetry between the patient as a layman and the physician as an expert is a key element in health economics. However, a change to a higher degree of patient autonomy has taken place. Furthermore, there is a consensus in a positive correlation between general education and productivity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133171
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Euthanasia as a Treatment Approach Among Cancer Patient in Palliative Care
Al-Share, Faour - 2012
The approaches to cancer management are changing and the patients are living longer.However, there are various ethical issues that cancer patients and families are facing in the health care setting. In this paper an explanations of some viewpoints about voluntary active euthanasia will be issued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107407
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Cost-Effectiveness of Related Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Versus Chemotherapy for Consolidation Treatment to Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Pediatric Patients
García Molina, Mario - 2013
Methods: A decision tree model was built with life years gained as outcome, from the perspective of the health system, and including all direct costs. Pharmaceutical prices were obtained from the System of Information of Medicaments SISMED (2008), and the value of procedures was calculated from...
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The Impact of Health Research on Length of Stay in Spanish Public Hospitals
Garcia Romero, Antonio - 2017
in medical (surgical) disciplines contribute significantly to the reduction of hospital LOS in medical (surgical … activity, hospital investment and hospitals' absorptive capacity. Finally, we evaluated the economic impact of increases in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964477
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Analysis of Costs, Length of Stay, and Utilization of Emergency Department Services By Frequent Users : Implications for Health Policy
Prah Ruger, Jennifer - 2007
, cross-sectional study of clinical and financial records for all ED visits to an urban, academic hospital in 2001 …, hospital inpatient length of stay, payment method, costs, and demographics. Results: Patients with three to 20 visits were more … likely to be admitted to the hospital than patients visiting once or twice. Patients visiting more than 20 times were less …
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