نتایج جستجو برای: ethical beneficiaries

تعداد نتایج: 57304  

Journal: :Effective clinical practice : ECP 1999
A S Bierman T A Bubolz E S Fisher J H Wasson

CONTEXT Responses to simple questions that predict subsequent health care utilization are of interest to both capitated health plans and the payer. OBJECTIVE To determine how responses to a single question about general health status predict subsequent health care expenditures. DESIGN Participants in the 1992 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey were asked the following question: "In general...

Journal: :Circulation 2015
Steven D Culler Aaron D Kugelmass Phillip P Brown Matthew R Reynolds April W Simon

BACKGROUND This study reports on the trends in the volume and outcomes of coronary revascularization procedures performed on Medicare beneficiaries between 2008 and 2012. METHODS AND RESULTS This retrospective study identifies all Medicare beneficiaries undergoing a coronary revascularization procedure: coronary artery bypass graft surgery or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) performed...

Journal: :Issue brief 2015
Cathy Schoen Karen Davis Christine Buttorff Martin Andersen

Insurance coverage through the traditional Medicare program is complex, fragmented, and incomplete. Beneficiaries must purchase supplemental private insurance to fill in the gaps. While impoverished beneficiaries may receive supplemental coverage through Medicaid and subsidies for prescription drugs, help is limited for people with incomes above the poverty level. This patchwork quilt leads to ...

2017
Jennifer L. Hargrove Yvonne M. Golightly Virginia Pate Carri H. Casteel Laura R. Loehr Stephen W. Marshall Til Stürmer

BACKGROUND Research suggests antihypertensive medications are associated with fractures in older adults, however results are inconsistent and few have examined how the association varies over time. We sought to examine the association between antihypertensive class and incident non-vertebral fractures among older adults initiating monotherapy according to time since initiation. METHODS We use...

1997
Nelda McCall Jodi Korb

The Arizona Long-Term Care System (ALTCS), Arizona's Medicaid program for long-term care (LTC) beneficiaries, capitates contractors to provide a full range of acute and LTC services to financially-eligible beneficiaries determined to be at risk of institutionalization. This article compares the acute care utilization experience of LTC beneficiaries in ALTCS with those in a fee-for-service (FFS)...

2008
Celia Eicheldinger Arthur Bonito

Analyses of health care disparities in Medicare using administrative race and ethnicity data have typically been limited to Black and White beneficiaries. This is in part due to the small size of the other categories, inaccuracies in the race and ethnicity codes, and caveats that more extensive analyses would produce biased results. While previous Medicare efforts certainly improved the accurac...

2000
Joseph Simanis

balance in these areas appears to be affected by the “move to the suburbs.” The figures on migration between States with common borders often reflect this type of movement. When, for example, roughly 1,400 aged beneficiaries moved from the District of Columbia to Maryland during the survey year and only 400 moved into that jurisdiction from Maryland, the result was a net, loss of 1,000 for the ...

Journal: :Journal of managed care pharmacy : JMCP 2008
Jae Kennedy Iulia Tuleu Katherine Mackay

BACKGROUND Despite the proven efficacy of prescription regimens in reducing disease symptoms and preventing or minimizing complications, poor medication adherence remains a significant public health problem. Medicare beneficiaries have high rates of chronic illness and prescription medication use, making this population particularly vulnerable to nonadherence. Failure to fill prescribed medicat...

2005
Keith McAdam

In April 2002 the Nuffield Council on Bioethics published the Report The Ethics of Research Related to Healthcare in Developing Countries. It provides an ethical framework for those designing or conducting healthcarerelated research in developing countries. This paper will draw on the conclusions made in the Report, and present some of the recommendations. It will cover the importance of genuin...

2014
Ulrike Lorch Martin O’Kane Jorg Taubel

This article attempts to define terminology and to describe a process for writing adaptive, early phase study protocols which are transparent, self-intuitive and uniform. It provides a step by step guide, giving templates from projects which received regulatory authorisation and were successfully performed in the UK. During adaptive studies evolving data is used to modify the trial design and c...

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