The medical-care sector often experiences changes in medical protocols and technologies that cause shifts in treatments. However, the commonly used medical-care price indexes reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics hold the mix of medical services fixed. In contrast, episode expenditure indexes, advocated by many health economists, track the full cost of disease treatment, even as treatments...

BACKGROUND Policy informs the planning and delivery of rural and remote maternity services and influences the perinatal outcomes of the 30 per cent of Australian women and their babies who live outside the major cities. Currently however, there are no planning tools that identify the optimal level of birthing services for rural and remote communities in Australia. To address this, the Australia...

Clinical accuracy, defined as the ability to discriminate between states of health, is the fundamental property of any diagnostic test or system. It is readily expressed as clinical sensitivity and specificity, and elegantly represented by the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. To demonstrate the use of ROC curves, we reexamine a study of the ability of serum lipid and apolipoprotei...

This thesis defines and designs succinct indexes for several abstract data types (ADTs). The concept is to design auxiliary data structures that ideally occupy asymptotically less space than the information-theoretic lower bound on the space required to encode the given data, and support an extended set of operations using the basic operators defined in the ADT. As opposed to succinct (integrat...

According to the construction requirements and structural characteristics of water-purifying constructed wetland in Qiangwei Lake, this research clarifies connotation wetland's health, analyzes relevant factors affecting operation effect wetland. Meanwhile, based on principle health evaluation, applies analytic hierarchy process divide evaluation system Lake into goal layer, criterion index lay...

conclusions the mean quality of life among the individuals studied was in the middle level, however, it is important to consider the different dimensions of their living situations, such as economic protections, social cooperation, ability to present suitable behaviors to solve problems, and living situation, especially among deprived people. materials and methods in this cross-sectional resear...

National Health Insurance system has been continuously revised due to rapid changes of society since its establishment, which caused gradual decrease of hospital income year by year, so all hospitals take the initiative to develop self-financed items to partially increase hospital incomes, thus it is crucial to develop assessment model of Health Management Center. The research adopts Fuzzy Anal...