Estimating health care delivery system value for each US state and testing key associations

Value-based health care delivery.

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An Overview of US Health Care Delivery

• To understand the basic nature of the US health care system • To outline the key functional components of a health care delivery system • To get a basic overview of health care reform and the Affordable Care Act • To discuss the primary characteristics of the US health care system • To emphasize why it is important for health care practitioners and managers to understand the intricacies of th...

Field effect transistor nanobiosensors: State-of-the-art and key challenges as point of care testing devices

The existing health care systems focus on treating diseases rather than preventing them. Patients are generally not tested unless physiological symptoms are appeared. When they do get tested, the results often take several days and can be inconclusive if the disease is at an early stage. In order to facilitate the diagnostics process and make tests more readily available for patients, the conce...

The state of US health-care reform.

Diagnostic testing: a key component of high-value care

This is the fourth article of a series on fundamental concepts in biostatistics and research. In this article, the author reviews the fundamental concepts in diagnostic testing, sensitivity, and specificity and how they relate to the concept of high-value care. The topics are discussed in common language, with a minimum of jargon and mathematics, and with clinical examples. Emphasis is given to...