the process of planning and initiating health services development has been described as conceived and experienced by the working group of the health services development research project in iran. the technical steps (conceiving and describing the health services system, development of plans, preparatory step and implementation) as well as political support needed are defined and described. the...

Fee-for-service, the predominant method of paying for health care in the United States, is an unsustainable payment approach that rewards volume, resulting in an increase in the number of health care services that are provided, regardless of the outcome of the service. Many believe this form of payment has contributed greatly to the ever-increasing costs of health care. Payment reform, which en...

Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (collectively referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA)) represents comprehensive reform of the health care delivery system and is intended to expand access to coverage, control health care costs, and improve the health care delivery system. When fully implemented, ACA will provide some Veterans with new options for health care, such a...

in the present study, floating drug delivery beads (fdds) were prepared with sodium alginate/ starch blend as a matrix, sodium hydrogen carbonate as a pore forming agent, methyl cellulose as a binder and barium chloride solution as a hardening agent. in order to prepare the beads with different porosity and morphology the ratio between pore forming agent to polymer blend and ratio of the consti...

conclusions conservative management is successful in the vast majority of patients with spinal headache. interventional procedures are required in a small fraction of patients for symptomatic relief. case presentation intrathecal drug delivery system (idds) was initially used for the management of chronic malignant pain; it has since been used to manage pain from other nonmalignant conditions a...