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Open AccessTerminally ill patients’ and their relatives’ experiences and behaviors regarding complementary and alternative medicine utilization in hospice palliative inpatient care units: a cross-sectional, multicenter survey
Terminally ill patients often experience exacerbations of diseases that render mainstream medicine ineffective in relieving symptoms, prompting attempts at complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). This st...
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Open AccessChanges in metabolic syndrome affect the health-related quality of life of community-dwelling adults
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is associated with cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, chronic renal diseases, and all-cause mortality. Furthermore, MetS is associated with poor health-related quality of life ...
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Open AccessTeam-based care improves quality of diabetes care -Family Practice Integrated Care Project in Taiwan
The Family Practice Integrated Care Project (FPICP) is a team-based program in Taiwan initiated in 2003. This study investigates the influence of FPICP on the quality of diabetes care.
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Open AccessAwareness of, attitude toward, and willingness to participate in pay for performance programs among family physicians: a cross-sectional study
The National Health Insurance Administration of Taiwan has introduced several pay-for-performance programs to improve the quality of healthcare. This study aimed to provide government with evidence-based resea...
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Open AccessPrescription of potentially inappropriate medication to older patients presenting to the emergency department: a nationally representative population study
Potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) was associated with adverse clinical outcomes and higher healthcare resource utilization among older patients. In order to investigate the prevalence of PIM use based...
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Open AccessSex differences in relationships between metabolic syndrome components and factors associated with health-related quality of life in middle-aged adults living in the community: a cross-sectional study in Taiwan
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a widespread condition with important effects on public health, in general. There is a lack of relevant research on possible sex differences in the relationship between MetS and he...
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Open AccessDifferences in do-not-resuscitate orders, hospice care utilization, and late referral to hospice care between cancer and non-cancer decedents in a tertiary Hospital in Taiwan between 2010 and 2015: a hospital-based observational study
In 2009, the Taiwanese national health insurance system substantially expanded hospice coverage for terminal cancer patients to include patients with end-stage brain, dementia, heart, lung, liver, and kidney d...
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Open AccessHow different is the care of terminal pancreatic cancer patients in inpatient palliative care units and acute hospital wards? A nationwide population-based study
Inpatient palliative care is important for patients with terminal pancreatic cancer. However, the differences between inpatient palliative care and acute hospital care for inpatients with pancreatic cancer hav...
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Open AccessLong-term booster schedules with AS03A-adjuvanted heterologous H5N1 vaccines induces rapid and broad immune responses in Asian adults
The pandemic potential of avian influenza A/H5N1 should not be overlooked, and the continued development of vaccines against these highly pathogenic viruses is a public health priority.
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Open AccessChinese herbal prescriptions for osteoarthritis in Taiwan: analysis of national health insurance dataset
Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) has been commonly used for treating osteoarthritis in Asia for centuries. This study aimed to conduct a large-scale pharmaco-epidemiologic study and evaluate the frequency and pat...
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Open AccessThe rural - urban divide in ambulatory care of gastrointestinal diseases in Taiwan
The utilization of medical care for gastrointestinal diseases increased over the past decade worldwide. The aim of the study was to investigate the difference between rural and urban patients in seeking medica...
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Open AccessHome healthcare services in Taiwan: a nationwide study among the older population
Home healthcare services are important in aging societies worldwide. The present nationwide study of health insurance data examined the utilization and delivery patterns, including diagnostic indications, for ...
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Open AccessCorrelates of institutionalized senior veterans' quality of life in Taiwan
Senior veterans living in government sponsored, long-term care (LTC) facilities, known as veterans' homes (VHs), are a special minority group in Taiwan. These seniors came from different provinces of mainland ...
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Open AccessIntra-articular hyaluronic acid for treatment of osteoarthritis: a nationwide study among the older population of Taiwan
Although intra-articular treatment with hyaluronic acid (HA) for symptomatic osteoarthritis has become widely accepted in recent decades, the pattern of its use has seldom been reported. We have explored the e...
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The contribution of Hong Kong to China’s international scientific publications
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Open AccessUse frequency of traditional Chinese medicine in Taiwan
Use of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), an important category of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), has increased substantially in Western countries during the past decade. Use of TCM is also wid...
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Open AccessHospice utilization during the SARS outbreak in Taiwan
The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic threw the world into turmoil during the first half of 2003. Many subsequent papers have addressed its impact on health service utilization, but few have co...
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Open AccessPatterns of ambulatory care utilization in Taiwan
We used the insurance claims of a representative cohort to quantify the patterns of ambulatory care visits, especially the doctor-shop** phenomenon, in Taiwan.
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The rise of China in gastroenterology? A bibliometric analysis of ISI and Medline databases
China has made great progress in economy and science in the last two decades. Its scientific development in gastroenterology has been seldom reported. Using two authoritative bibliographic databases, Science C...
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Antibiotic prescription for fever episodes in hospice patients
Bacterial infection usually plays an important part in the fever episodes that are common in patients in the hospice palliative care unit. The physicians' attitude to use of antibiotics in such cases is usual...
