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Outpatient treatment costs and their potential impact on cancer care
Cancer creates a tremendous financial burden. Cancer-related costs are categorized into direct, indirect, and psychosocial costs. Although there have been many reports on medical care costs, which are direct, those on other costs are extremely scarce. We estimated travel time and costs required for cancer patients to receive outpatient treatment. We studied 521 cancer patients receiving anti-ca...
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OBJECTIVE New antidiabetic medications have been introduced during the last decade, but their impact on health care cost is largely unknown. Prescription costs in diabetic patients in primary care in Germany were evaluated (1994-2004). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 46,017 diabetic patients and 46,017 age- and sex-matched control subjects in 400 nationwide practices (2004) were compar...
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W ith the goals of improving oxygen delivery,1 reducing anemia, and enhancing quality of life, over 12 million red blood cell (RBC) units are transfused annually in the United States.2 At a hospital acquisition cost per RBC unit of $122 (1999 dollars),2 US acquisition costs exceed $1.5 billion annually. Adding testing and transfusion, the total health system cost for two units (based on prior s...
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Objectives: The objectives of this preliminary study were to identify a cohort of patients receiving outpatient prescriptions for a class of medications, benzodiazepines, that are known to increase the risk of adverse events, and to analyze the temporal association between outpatient benzodiazepine usage and inpatient and outpatient injury-related health care encounters for this cohort. Methods...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10347.abs