نتایج جستجو برای: health service costs
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BACKGROUND There is limited population-level research on end-of-life care in Australia that considers health care use and costs across hospital and community sectors. The aim of this study was to quantify health care use and costs in the last 6 months of life in a cohort of elderly Australian decedents and to examine the factors associated with end-of-life resource use and costs. METHODS A re...
martin powell makes the point that the death of the national health service (nhs) is constantly asserted without criteria. this article suggests that the nhs is many things, which makes criteria unstable. the alignment of interests in the structure of the nhs enables both overheated rhetoric and political strength, and that pluralization of provision might actually undermine that alignment over...
There is an important distinction between worth and affordability which remains largely unrecognized. It is widely supposed that if an economic analysis shows that the benefits of a service exceed its costs, failure to fund it is irrational and inefficient. By means of a simplified model of a health care system, it is shown that although an excess of benefits over costs is a necessary precondit...
Introduction: The success of a health system depends on the accessibility and the quality of health services it provides. One major indicator of service quality is peoples satisfaction from the service. In this article, healthcare availability and satisfaction of people in 17th zone of Tehran is investigated. Methods: Population Research Center has performed a survey in 17th zone of Tehran to...
OBJECTIVE To analyze the direct medical costs of HIV/AIDS in Portugal from the perspective of the National Health Service. METHODS A retrospective analysis of medical records was conducted for 150 patients from five specialized centers in Portugal in 2008. Data on utilization of medical resources during 12 months and patients' characteristics were collected. A unit cost was applied to each ca...
STUDY OBJECTIVE We determine the minimum mortality reduction that helicopter emergency medical services (EMS) should provide relative to ground EMS for the scene transport of trauma victims to offset higher costs, inherent transport risks, and inevitable overtriage of patients with minor injury. METHODS We developed a decision-analytic model to compare the costs and outcomes of helicopter ver...
OBJECTIVE To measure the costs of a polypill strategy and compare them with those of usual care in people with established cardiovascular disease (CVD) or at similarly high cardiovascular risk. DESIGN A within-trial cost analysis of polypill-based care versus usual care with separate medications, using data from the Kanyini Guidelines Adherence with the Polypill (GAP) trial and linked health ...
BACKGROUND Kaiser Permanente Colorado has been responding to the financial challenges of its members by providing a medical financial assistance (MFA) program since 1992. However, there have been no evaluations of the effect of this program on members' use of health services or their health outcomes. METHODS A prospective cohort study of 308 MFA program members who were enrolled between May 1...
As healthcare costs increase, there is a need for healthcare service providers to look for ways to contain costs and to improve the service level. Due to the limited resources, it is difficult to create value in the physical value chain, so the health care industry should focus on using information system. This paper introduces the virtual value chain evolution in health care industry, the up-t...
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