Background Thailand has three main health insurance schemes: Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS), Social Security Scheme (SSS) and Civil Servant Medical Benefit Scheme (CSMBS). Health benefits of these schemes are different, which could lead to inequity in access to care and quality of care. Medical emergency care was the first healthcare programme that was implemented towards harmonization of the ...

In 1983 Congress adopted the most significant change in the Medicare program since its inception in 1965. Along with measures to ensure the solvency of the Social Security System into the next century, Congress approved a system of prospective payment for hospital inpatient services, whereby hospitals are paid a fixed sum per case according to a schedule of diagnosis related groups (DRGs). The ...

Article history: Received 5 August 2009 Accepted 7 August 2009 China has recently unveiled an ambitious new health-care reform plan, entailing a doubling of government health spending as well as a number of concrete reforms. While the details of the plan have not yet been completely announced, we offer a preliminary assessment of how well the reform is likely to achieve its stated goal of assur...

We compared diagnosis-related group (DRG) weights calculated using the hospital-specific relative-value (HSRV) methodology with those calculated using the standard methodology for each year from 1985 through 1989 and analyzed differences between the two methods in detail for 1989. We provide evidence suggesting that classification error and subsidies of higher weighted cases by lower weighted c...

BACKGROUND The dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neuron is an invaluable tool in axon growth, growth factor regulation, myelin formation and myelin-relevant researches. The purification of DRG neurons is a key step in these studies. Traditionally, purified DRG neurons were obtained in two weeks after exposure to several rounds of anti-mitotic reagent. METHODS AND RESULTS In this report, a novel, simp...

background: the family physician plan has recently been implemented in three provinces of iran on a pilot basis and is going to be implemented throughout iran in the future. through a qualitative design, this study aims to determine probable implementation challenges of family physician plan in kerman. methods: this study was conducted in kerman in 2013. data were collected through interviews w...

Sacral stimulation is a well-established therapy for urologic neuromodulation. After the advent of dorsal root ganglion (DRG) stimulation, pain surgeons have started to reach this target mostly pelvic and sacral pain. For those without good surgical experience, foramen puncture, especially S3 S4, can be challenge, due its entry angle limited C-arm image resolution. In report, we describe new te...

BACKGROUND Lumbar radiculopathy is a common clinical problem, characterized by dorsal root ganglion (DRG) injury and neural hyperactivity causing intense pain. However, the mechanisms involved in DRG injury have not been fully elucidated. Furthermore, little is known about the degree of radiculopathy at the various levels of nerve injury. The purpose of this study is to compare the degree of ra...

it has been tried to compare the “price payment method” in iranian law with “principles of international commercial contracts” and “convention on contracts for international sale of goods vienna, 1980” in this study. different law regulations in various countries should be unified in order to extend rapid and insured trusted law relations among the nations and people all over the world because ...