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Health Care Rationing (0):
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Health Care Rationing
Revue medicale suisse (7)311 2011
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We address concerns raised in this issue by Bretzner et al. (2011) by explaining the rationale for including subjects with subacute, neurologically complete spinal cord injuries in the Phase 1 trial of GRNOPC1. We also present elements of the informed consent process that minimize the likelihood of...
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PMID: 21549322
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Clinical Medicine (11)2 2011
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Background and aims. Cancer is a chronic disease whose clinical history has a strong relationship with socio-economic indicators, and it could be defined as a real "social disease". For this reason, socio-economic factors can be used to project survival rates by means of ecological models. The presen...
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PMID: 21789001
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We have ensured that economists can differentiate symptoms from diagnoses and diagnostics from screening at the interface between medicine and economy. However, we overlooked the fact that physicians should be able to understand the principles of marginal benefit and medical ethics, as well as the d...
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PMID: 21046533
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We selected and estimated the cost of 16 interventions related to education, housing, nutrition, employment, health care, healthy behavior, neighborhood improvement, and transportation. Low-income residents of Washington, D.C. (N=431) participated in decision exercises to prioritize these interventi...
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PMID: 21099082
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There is an increasing need to assess the value of safety improvements to society. Concerns exist, however, as to what extent standard health economic methods appropriately reflect this value because these methods do not typically incorporate the non-health or extra-consequentialist value of avoidin...
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PMID: 20702440
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Patient selection by the BDH for NHS-funded implants complied with the RCSE guidelines. However, there was significant variation in funding between PCTs for those patients who apparently fulfilled the RCSE guidelines. NHS resources are not being allocated equitably for dental implant 'high-priority'...
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PMID: 20522291
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Women's Health Issues (20)5 2010
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We take this opportunity to raise awareness of another devastating illness in women, ischemic heart disease, and to suggest that screening for ischemic heart disease, by providing early detection and identifying women who would benefit most from intensified medical therapy, merits consideration.
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PMID: 20800764
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Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) within Milan criteria receive priority on the liver transplant waiting list (WL) and compete with non-HCC patients. Dropout from the WL is an indirect measure of transplant access. Competing risks (CR) evaluation of dropout for HCC and non...
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PMID: 20486906
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Delaware medical journal (82)7 2010
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A questionnaire study, conducted by the authors among a representative sample of hospital doctors in Germany, showed that health care rationing in German hospitals is already a fact. But since the results were published in 2009 the validity of its findings has been questioned. This article provides...
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PMID: 20648410
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Among patients with carpal tunnel syndrome, there was a higher proportion of female patients compared to male patients (68% versus 32%); male patients with multiple neuropathies had higher rates of surgery than their female counterparts (63% versus 41%). Only increasing age was associated with incre...
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PMID: 20049568
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We term its 'insurance value'--has increasingly become neglected. In this paper, we argue that this inattention is detrimental to the population at large. We explore some implications to the NHS of maximizing insurance value. These include requiring commissioners to take explicit account of how deni...
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PMID: 20203080
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As it moves from a relief to a development phase, the Republic of Tajikistan (RT) needs to attract more external aid and to ensure adequate alignment of this aid with health systems development priorities. A potential response to these two needs is a Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp), a method originating...
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PMID: 20694955
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Journal of Rheumatology (37)6 2010
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The incidence of ESRD due to SLE was higher in ZIP codes with higher proportions of hospitalizations with no insurance (r = 0.22, p < 0.0001) or Medicaid (r = 0.21, p < 0.0001), and in ZIP codes with higher rates of hospitalizations for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (r = 0.23, p < 0.0001). In...
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PMID: 20395647
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New England Journal of Medicine (362)19 2010
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Health Policy (95)2-3 2010
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Women and older people are overrepresented among patients with low priority. Conditional on age, women with low priority have lower income and less education than women with high priority. Among men below 50 years, patients with low priority have less education than patients with high priority. CONC...
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PMID: 20060613
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Modern Healthcare (40)17 2010
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Our findings suggest that patient allocation in Brazil is not random. The probability of allocation to HD or PD is highly associated with individual attributes and supply variables....
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PMID: 20167688
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This paper investigates the continuum of care experienced by adults and their significant others following a moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Victoria, Australia. Clinical care guidelines exist defining best practice in TBI rehabilitation, but little is currently kn...
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PMID: 20420352
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Nursing Ethics (17)2 2010
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Two areas of ethical conflict in intercultural nursing - who needs single rooms more, and how far should nurses go to comply with ethnic minority patients' wishes? - are discussed from a utilitarian and common-sense morality point of view. These theories may mirror nurses' way of thi...
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PMID: 20185444
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Nursing Ethics (17)2 2010
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Two areas of ethical conflict in intercultural nursing - who needs single rooms more, and how far should nurses go to comply with ethnic minority patients' wishes? - are discussed from a utilitarian and common-sense morality point of view. These theories may mirror nurses' way of thi...
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PMID: 20185444
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Nursing Ethics (17)2 2010
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Two areas of ethical conflict in intercultural nursing - who needs single rooms more, and how far should nurses go to comply with ethnic minority patients' wishes? - are discussed from a utilitarian and common-sense morality point of view. These theories may mirror nurses' way of thi...
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PMID: 20185444
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Nursing Ethics (17)2 2010
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Two areas of ethical conflict in intercultural nursing - who needs single rooms more, and how far should nurses go to comply with ethnic minority patients' wishes? - are discussed from a utilitarian and common-sense morality point of view. These theories may mirror nurses' way of thi...
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PMID: 20185444
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PDF is available here.
Nursing Ethics (17)2 2010
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Two areas of ethical conflict in intercultural nursing - who needs single rooms more, and how far should nurses go to comply with ethnic minority patients' wishes? - are discussed from a utilitarian and common-sense morality point of view. These theories may mirror nurses' way of thi...
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PMID: 20185444
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PDF is available here.
Nursing Ethics (17)2 2010
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Two areas of ethical conflict in intercultural nursing - who needs single rooms more, and how far should nurses go to comply with ethnic minority patients' wishes? - are discussed from a utilitarian and common-sense morality point of view. These theories may mirror nurses' way of thi...
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PMID: 20185444
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PDF is available here.
Nursing Ethics (17)2 2010
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Two areas of ethical conflict in intercultural nursing - who needs single rooms more, and how far should nurses go to comply with ethnic minority patients' wishes? - are discussed from a utilitarian and common-sense morality point of view. These theories may mirror nurses' way of thi...
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PMID: 20185444
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MMW Fortschritte der Medizin (152)6 2010
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Medical Care (48)2 2010
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The study sample consisted of 25,558 individuals aged 20 to 79 years representing approximately 7.8 million people. Over the 2 years of study period, 82.5% of the study population had a FP visit with a median of 6 visits and 53.2% had a SP visit with a median of 1 visit. The R values based on admini...
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PMID: 19927013
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Medical Care (48)2 2010
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German, British, and American physicians were allocated (on average) 16/11/32 minutes for a new patient appointment, 6/10/18 minutes for a routine visit, and 12/20/36 minutes for a complete physical, but felt that they needed more time. Over half of German and American physicians felt that they alwa...
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PMID: 20057331
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Formally employing more information in the prioritisation of patients awaiting CABG appears to be a cost-effective approach and may result in improved health outcomes. The most robust results relate to a strategy employing a risk score using conventional clinical information together with a single b...
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PMID: 20184812
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The aim of this study was to compare time spent waiting for cataract extraction across various hospitals and to determine if it was influenced by severity of disease or patient characteristics.
Ambispective cohort study. Clinical, sociodemographic, and health-related...
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PMID: 20130015
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We explore opportunities and barriers to the implementation of a community-level, structural intervention. We first analyze the different forms of leadership, and other community resources including existing HIV prevention activities that could potentially be used to address the related problems of...
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PMID: 19910099
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Psychological Science (21)2 2010
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We investigated how the public values life when evaluating vaccine-allocation policies during a flu epidemic. We found that people's ratings of the acceptability of policies were dramatically influenced by question framing. When policies were described in terms of lives saved, people judged them on...
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PMID: 20424038
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MMW Fortschritte der Medizin (151 Suppl 4) 2010
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In health services research comparative studies between orthopaedics and naturopathy are necessary. They allow evidence based decisions between individual therapeutical alternatives as well as decisions on health politics, e.g. concerning allocation of resources.
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PMID: 21595143
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Anesthesia Progress (57)1 2010
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Rare diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in high income countries and have major repercussions on individuals and health care systems. This chapter examines the health economy of rare diseases from two different perspectives: firstly, the study of the economic impact of rare diseas...
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PMID: 20824451
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Inquiry (Rochester) (47)4 2010
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We can no longer afford the persistent gap between health spending and income growth. In simple terms, if the economy is growing 2%, we cannot afford persistent health care spending growth of 4%. Growth in public spending is particularly important. If not abated, high public spending will require ei...
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PMID: 21391454
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We believe that the rationing of drugs that are too expensive can achieve political legitimacy if it is based on a transparent justification that includes not only evidence-based criteria, but also ethical principles and values. For egalitarians, fairness in the supply of health care should be accom...
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PMID: 20737807
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The authors of the publication analyse financial effects which are the result of applying division algorithms concerning public payer organizational units during the years of 1999 - 2010. Unpublished financial data illustrating the division of financial resources in public health insurance in Poland...
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PMID: 20499670
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The high level of executable obligations has been one of the main problem of independent public healthcare units' activity for many years. This article presents the results of the analysis of level, dynamics and structure of executable obligations in the years of function independent public payer. P...
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PMID: 20976958
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