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Citizens’ opinions and experiences related to costs and reimbursements for medications in times of retrenchment: cross-sectional population surveys in 2015 and 2017
BackgroundFinland has universal coverage for prescription medications under the National Health Insurance. Eligibility schemes target higher...
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Did Medicaid Reimbursements Shape the Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Access to Health Care Among the Low-Income Population?
BackgroundWhether variation in Medicaid reimbursement fees influenced the impacts of the Medicaid expansions is not well understood.
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Recovery of suspended reimbursements of high-cost drugs subjected to monitoring registries and negotiated agreements (MEAs): a tool for governance and clinical appropriateness in the Italian reality
The Monitoring Registries and negotiated agreements (MEAs) established by the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) exemplify a pinnacle of excellence in...
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Pharmaceutical pricing dynamics in an internal reference pricing system: evidence from changing drugs’ reimbursements
Reference pricing systems for prescription drugs are usually implemented with the aim of curbing public expenditure with pharmaceuticals, induce drug...
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How public and private health insurance coverage mitigates catastrophic health expenditures in Republic of Korea
BackgroundThe private health insurance (PHI) market in Republic of Korea has instituted indemnity insurance plans that provide partial reimbursements...
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Revision total knee arthroplasty results in financial deficits within the Swiss healthcare system
PurposeRevision total knee arthroplasty (RTKA) results in high costs with inadequately low reimbursement in different healthcare systems. Therefore,...
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Comparison of patient demographics, utilization trends, and costs of total ankle arthroplasty and ankle fusion in the United States from 2010 to 2019
IntroductionContemporary studies evaluating utilization and trends of total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) and ankle fusion (AF) for tibiotalar...
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Rethinking rurality: using hospital referral regions to investigate rural-urban health outcomes
BackgroundRural residents in the United States face disproportionately poorer health outcomes compared to urban residents. This study aims to...
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Prevalence, demographic and spatial distribution of treated epilepsy in France in 2020: a study based on the French national health data system
BackgroundAlthough still incomplete, the epidemiology of epilepsy shows substantial variations in the burden of the condition according to...
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Evolution of the profiles of new psychotropic drug users before and during the COVID-19 crisis: an original longitudinal approach through multichannel sequence analysis using the French health-care database
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on mental health. An increase in the use of anxiolytic, hypnotic, and antidepressant drugs has...
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Cost comparison between medicare and private insurance for robotic transhiatal esophagectomy
Esophageal cancer is a significant health concern, with the robotic platform being increasingly adopted for transhiatal esophagectomy (THE). While...
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Drivers and recent trends of hospitalisation costs related to acute pulmonary embolism
Background and aimsThe socio-economic burden imposed by acute pulmonary embolism (PE) on European healthcare systems is largely unknown. We sought to...
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The Relationship Between Strategic Human Resource Management Practices and the Employment of Vulnerable Workers: A Two-Wave Study Among Employers
PurposeTo improve the inclusion of vulnerable workers in the labor market, employer behavior is key. However, little is known about the effectiveness...
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It probably worked: a Bayesian approach to evaluating the introduction of activity-based hospital payment in Israel
BackgroundIn 2013–2014, Israel accelerated adoption of activity-based payments to hospitals. While the effects of such payments on patient length of...
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Use of artificial intelligence for public health surveillance: a case study to develop a machine Learning-algorithm to estimate the incidence of diabetes mellitus in France
BackgroundThe use of machine learning techniques is increasing in healthcare which allows to estimate and predict health outcomes from large...
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Implications of Payment for Acute Myocardial Infarctions as a 90-Day Bundled Single Episode of Care: A Cost of Illness Analysis
ObjectivesEvaluate the cost of illness associated with the 90-day period following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and the implication of care...
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Benign prostatic hyperplasia is associated with increased 90-day medical complications but not peri-prosthetic joint infections following reverse shoulder arthroplasty
IntroductionStudies have shown male sex to be a predisposing factor for peri-prosthetic joint infections (PJIs). Symptomatic benign prostatic...