Reasonable competent and skilled medical practitioners owe a duty of care to their patients. Medical negligence malpractice are expressions that used in the community very often. It is hard collect handful successful Sri Lankan case law documents reached Supreme Court. However, an exception exists from landmark Priyani Soyza v. Rienzie Arseculerathe for Recovery Damages Death Person prior enact...

To comprehend the current challenges that French ophthalmic care is facing, one has first to appreciate the system and the changes that have occurred over the years leading to the current situation. French ophthalmic care is organized differently from its British and American counterparts and resembles its European neighbors. It follows a basic principle of the French medical practice which sho...

BACKGROUND Many randomized clinical trials have demonstrated the effectiveness of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICDs) in death reduction of chronic heart failure (CHF) patients. Some developed countries studies have evaluated its cost-effectiveness, but these data are not applicable to Brazil. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of ICD in CHF patients under two perspect...

abstract protection policies in the agricultural sector is an inevitable necessity, its accomplish effects individuals welfare and economic sectors. protection policies account for a major economic strategy in agricultural sectors of developing and developed countries. applying ardl, the study investigates effects of protection policy in agricultural sector on total factor productivity of this ...

Osteoporosis currently affects over twelve million Americans with another forty million affected by osteopenia or low bone mass [1]. Low bone mineral density has long been known to increase the risk of fragility fracture defined as “any fracture caused by injury that would be insufficient to fracture a normal bone”, typically occurring in the hip, vertebrae, wrist, and proximal humerus [2]. The...

International evidence show that screening for colorectal cancer is cost-effective; however, in Argentina is unknown. OBJECTIVE The study shows the results of a cost-effectiveness evaluation based on two alternative mechanisms: annual faecal immunochemical testing (FIT), and colonoscopy every ten years in Argentina. METHODS The study develops a Mar- kov model in ten stages, based on informa...

BACKGROUND Follow-up care after kidney transplantation is performed in transplant centers as well as in local nephrologist's practices in Germany. However, organized integrated care of these different sectors of the German health care system is missing. This organizational deficit as well as non-adherence of kidney recipients and longterm cardiovascular complications are major reasons for an im...

PURPOSE The objective of this study was to provide new estimates on the per-admission inpatient hospital cost and per-admission length of stay (LOS) for osteoporosis-related fractures in mainland China. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data for inpatient hospitalization associated with at least one osteoporosis-related fracture were obtained from the nationwide China Health Insurance Research Associatio...

BACKGROUND Financing ART is variously regulated in the different countries of Europe. In Germany, coverage of assisted reproduction by statutory health insurances was restricted to 50% in 2004. We conducted a national survey among patients, professionals (physicians and other academics in IVF centres, psychosocial counsellors, medical ethicists, social lawyers, health politicians) and the gener...