منابع مشابه
Erratum to: Pharmaceutical cost management in an ambulatory setting using a risk adjustment tool
BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical expenditure is undergoing very high growth, and accounts for 30% of overall healthcare expenditure in Spain. In this paper we present a prediction model for primary health care pharmaceutical expenditure based on Clinical Risk Groups (CRG), a system that classifies individuals into mutually exclusive categories and assigns each person to a severity level if s/he has a ...
متن کاملHybrid flow-shop with adjustment
The subject of this paper is a flow-shop based on a case study aimed at the optimisation of ordering production jobs in mechanical engineering, in order to minimize the overall processing time, the makespan. The production jobs are processed by machines, and each job is assigned to a certain machine for technological reasons. Before processing a job, the machine has to be adjusted; there is onl...
متن کاملThe Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme 2003–2004
The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) grew by 8% in 2003-04; a slower rate than the 12.0% pa average growth over the last decade. Nevertheless, the sustainability of the Scheme remained an ongoing concern given an aging population and the continued introduction of useful (but increasingly expensive) new medicines. There was also concern that the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement c...
متن کاملRisk Selection and Risk Adjustment
Synopsis: Risk selection, which occurs when an individual’s demand for a product is correlated with her risk, creates inefficiencies and inequalities in markets for those products and services. Studies have shown that risk selection often occurs in health care markets, especially in markets for health insurance. Risk adjustment is a method that has been developed to correct those inefficiencies...
متن کاملThe benefits and risks of risk-adjustment in paediatric cardiac surgery
Outcomes following paediatric cardiac surgery have long been the subject of clinical, regulatory, media and public scrutiny. There are several reasons for this. The work is among the most technically challenging, resource intensive and emotionally charged clinical activity undertaken. In the UK, past events, public inquiries and intentions to reduce the number of centres performing this surgery...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1374294