Background We aimed to identify the indicators of healthcare fraud and abuse in general physicians’ drug prescription claims, and to identify a subset of general physicians that were more likely to have committed fraud and abuse.   Methods We applied data mining approach to a major health insurance organization dataset of private sector general physicians’ prescription claims. It involved 5 ste...

Let G = (V,E) be a graph and let r, s, k be natural numbers. “Revolutionaries and Spies”, G(G, r, s, k) , is the following two-player game. The sets of positions for player 1 and player 2 are V r and ∗The research of the first author was supported by BSF grant no. 2006099, and by ISF grants Nos. 779/08, 859/08 and 938/06.

introduction: increasing volume of information in various sciences, such as medicine, has led to the use of various strategies to effectively provide students, researchers, and teachers with medical and paramedical information. the iranian ministry of health and medical education has developed an online digital library, called iranian national medical digital library (inmdl), which provides acc...

objective: bad news disclosure is one of the most complex tasks of physicians. recent evidences indicate that patients' and physicians' attitude toward breaking bad news has been changed since few years ago. the evidence of breaking bad news is different across cultures. the aim of this study is to evaluate the attitude of medical staff toward breaking bad news to provide a clinical guideline i...

background: over the last 10 years, the evidential practice has been developing in kazakhstan. the clinical protocols of diagnostics and treatment were implemented in the country since 2007. we analyzed the normal birth practice in kazakhstan. materials and methods: obstetricians and midwives were subject to the questionnaire survey in four large maternity hospitals of almaty. results: totally,...

Coxiella burnetii Dog Utad, with a 2 008 938 bp genome is a strain isolated from a parturient dog responsible for a human familial outbreak of acute Q fever in Nova Scotia, Canada. Its genotype, determined by multispacer typing, is 21; the only one found in Canada that includes Q212, which causes endocarditis. Only 107 single nucleotide polymorphisms and 16 INDELs differed from Q212, suggesting...

The State of Oregon recently enacted legislation that increases physician responsibility for reporting medically at-risk drivers. The legislation comes at a time when the public is closely scrutinizing the question of the elderly and driving and the role of physicians in the reporting of potentially dangerous drivers. The evolution of Oregon's law is somewhat unique and offers an opportunity to...

Since the 1960s, physician assistants (PAs) have been influencing the way health care is delivered in this country. Although the profession is only 30 years old—relatively young in comparison to some other health professions—PAs have become a major component of the U.S. health delivery system. The award-winning television show "ER" has probably done much to raise public awareness about the role...

OBJECTIVE We compared quality of care for uninsured patients with diabetes in private physician offices and community/migrant health centers (C/MHCs). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional medical record review in a convenience sample of eight physician offices and three C/MHC sites in rural North Carolina. Billing systems generated lists of self-pay patients with diabete...

A fairly widespread notion persists concerning office automation (OA) having a revolutionary impact on the work of managers. The new age will provide instant access to information, insightful consideration of numerous options, convincing graphics, and less time wasted in travel and administrative trivia. But how much of this ideal can be true? Given organizational and technological constraints,...