We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients’ length of stay and risk … does not improve his patients’ health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period … based on a two-state Mixed Proportional Hazard approach. We find that the hospital length of stay of patients treated in …

We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients’ length of stay and risk … does not improve his patients’ health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period … based on a two-state Mixed Proportional Hazard approach. We find that the hospital length of stay of patients treated in …

lawsuits from individual patients requesting 1 to 30 different drugs. The possibility of drug interactions occurred in 52 …. Conclusions: The results suggest a potential high risk of drug interactions in patients receiving drugs through lawsuits against … the Unified Health System. Patients on a higher number of drugs were associated with different levels of drug interactions …

Contrast media induced nephropathy is a common cause of kidney failure in hospitalized patients. It has been suggested …

Patients have a right to autonomy that encompasses making medical decisions that others consider ‘bad’. The ambits of … relationship between patients’ autonomy rights and clinicians’ responsibilities …

This paper represents the first research attempt to estimate the probabilities for Vietnamese patients to fall into … high probabilities of destitution, approximately 70%, apply to a large group of patients, who are nonresident, poor and … ineligible for significant insurance coverage.There is also a probability of 58% that low-income patients who are seriously ill …