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Identifying the causal effects of long-term exposure to PM2.5 and ground surface ozone on individual medical costs in China—evidence from a representative longitudinal nationwide cohort
BackgroundThere is little evidence on whether PM 2.5 and ground surface ozone have consistent effects on increased individual medical costs, and...
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Household income and medical help-seeking for fertility problems among a representative population in Japan
BackgroundFertility treatments help many infertile couples to have children. However, disparities exist in access to fertility tests and treatments....
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Elucidating Harm Reduction Principles in a Client-Centered Representative Payee Program
Harm Reduction seeks to mitigate harms associated with health behaviors without the expectation that these behaviors be extinguished completely....
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Association Between Legal Access to Medical Cannabis and Frequency of Non-Medical Prescription Opioid Use Among U.S. Adults
The impact of state-level medical cannabis laws (MCL) on individual-level opioid outcomes is inconclusive. We analyzed representative samples of U.S....
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Direct Medical Costs of COPD in the USA: An Analysis of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2017–2018
AimIn this study, we aimed to provide a nationally representative estimate of the economic burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by...
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Racial and ethnic disparities in unmet need for mental health care among children: A nationally representative study
BackgroundThere is a dearth of large, nationally representative studies that examine racial/ethnic disparities in self-reported unmet need for mental...
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From CNN to Transformer: A Review of Medical Image Segmentation Models
Medical image segmentation is an important step in medical image analysis, especially as a crucial prerequisite for efficient disease diagnosis and...
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Overactive bladder negatively affects erectile function and promotes premature ejaculation: findings from large representative population-level study
PurposeThe effect of overactive bladder (OAB) on sexual health has been evaluated extensively for women but much less for men. Therefore, the aim of...
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The inter-prefectural regional disparity of healthcare resources and representative surgical procedures in orthopaedics and general surgery: a nationwide study in Japan during 2015–2019
BackgroundFew reports have examined the localized regional disparity in representative surgical procedures in orthopaedics and general surgery...
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The Impact of Delivery Reform on Health Information Exchange with Behavioral Health Providers: Results from a National Representative Survey of Ambulatory Physicians
Health information exchange (HIE) is an effective way to coordinate care, but HIE between health and behavioral health providers is limited. Recent...
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The impact of urban–rural medical insurance integration on medical impoverishment: evidence from China
BackgroundFinancial protection is a key dimension of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and social medical insurance is an effective measure to provide...
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Medical-informed machine learning: integrating prior knowledge into medical decision systems
BackgroundClinical medicine offers a promising arena for applying Machine Learning (ML) models. However, despite numerous studies employing ML in...
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WeChat usage and preservation of cognitive functions in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: indications from a nationally representative survey, 2018–2020
PurposeTo investigate the associations between the most popular social media platform WeChat usage and cognitive performance among the middle-aged...
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Vocal cord lesions in representative autoimmune diseases
ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to describe the clinical features of vocal cord lesions in patients with representative autoimmune diseases...
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The association between cannabis and codeine use: a nationally representative cross-sectional study in Canada
BackgroundDue to the growing use of cannabis for the purposes of pain relief, evidence is needed on the impact of cannabis use on concurrent...
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Health system utilization and perceived quality among adults in Lao PDR: evidence from a nationally representative phone survey
BackgroundThe World Health Organization (WHO) defines quality health services as being effective, safe, people-centered, timely, equitable,...
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Health outcomes and healthcare utilization associated with four undiagnosed chronic conditions: evidence from nationally representative survey data in Sri Lanka
BackgroundLow awareness of chronic conditions raises the risk of poorer health outcomes and may result in healthcare utilization and spending in...
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Anemia diagnosis and therapy in malignant diseases: implementation of guidelines—a representative study
PurposeAnemia in cancer should be diagnosed and treated according to guideline recommendations. The implementation of ESMO and German guidelines and...
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Alienation from medical care policy, medical care avoidance, and the role of sex and risk perception
BackgroundMedical care avoidance affects individuals’ health status. Previous studies on medical care avoidance have mainly focused on medical costs...
