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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-class Model to Predict Pain on Lower Limb Intermittent Claudication Patients
Intermittent claudication is a vascular disease that hinders elder patients’ mobility, with symptoms ranging from mild discomfort to acute pain. Based on the current literature and health professional input, t...
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Article
Open AccessShould we adjust health expenditure for age structure on health systems efficiency? A worldwide analysis
Healthcare expenditure, a common input used in health systems efficiency analyses is affected by population age structure. However, while age structure is usually considered to adjust health system outputs, he...
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Article
All Patient Refined-Diagnosis Related Groups’ (APR-DRGs) Severity of Illness and Risk of Mortality as predictors of in-hospital mortality
The aims of this study were to assess All-Patient Refined Diagnosis-Related Groups’ (APR-DRG) Severity of Illness (SOI) and Risk of Mortality (ROM) as predictors of in-hospital mortality, comparing with Charls...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards a Process Reference Model for Clinical Coding
Coding of medical data is a very important previous step for many activities in Health Care management, since it is the basis for several activities ranging from hospital reimbursement to clinical research
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Article
European Union state of health from 1990 to 2017: time trends and its enlargements’ effects
We aimed to study health status’ time trends in the European Union (EU) during 1990–2017 and its enlargements’ impact.
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Article
Burden of Burns in Brazil from 2000 to 2014: A Nationwide Hospital-Based Study
Burns are a major public health concern, affecting mostly low- and middle-income countries. However, there is a lack of epidemiological studies on burns in these countries, particularly in Latin American count...
