Patients with cancer could spend less time in hospital, says tsar

Hospital efficiency: how to spend less maintaining quality?

INTRODUCTION The recent global economic crisis is pushing governments worldwide to obtain a more explicit and urgent rationing of resources. The purpose of this study is to provide, through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a methodological framework useful for investigating technical efficiency of hospital care. METHODS To validate such framework, we compared 50 Italian public hospital trusts...

Do Households with Debt Problems Spend Less?

At the end of 2012, almost one-fifth of owner-occupier mortgages were in arrears. A further five per cent not in arrears were classified as “restructured” loans. This Economic Letter looks at the impact of financial distress on household expenditure patterns by comparing the behaviour of households in mortgage distress with similar households in the general population. It finds that, controllin...

HPV vaccine could also prevent oropharyngeal cancer, says IARC.

Lyon, France, 18 July 2013 A new study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in partnership with Costa Rican investigators and the United States National Cancer Institute (NCI), shows for the first time that the vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18, which is used to prevent cervical cancer, also provides strong protection against oral HPV infections, k...

Investing time in health: do socioeconomically disadvantaged patients spend more or less extra time on diabetes self-care?

BACKGROUND Research on self-care for chronic disease has not examined time requirements. Translating Research into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD), a multi-site study of managed care patients with diabetes, is among the first to assess self-care time. OBJECTIVE To examine associations between socioeconomic position and extra time patients spend on foot care, shopping/cooking, and exercise due to ...

Sharing care data could save lives of vulnerable children, hospital leader says.