background: health inequalitymonitoring especially in health care financing field is very important. hence, this study tends to assess the inequality in household's capacity to pay and out-of-pocket health carepaymentsin tehran metropolis. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed in 2013.thestudy population was selected by stratified cluster sampling, and they constitute the typic...

Main results 9 trials (n=1568) met the selection criteria. Follow up duration ranged from 2–24 months. Sample sizes ranged from 90–378 participants. Individual patient data were obtained for 4 trials (n=646). Patients allocated to day hospital care had a longer duration of index admission than those allocated to inpatient care (table). Day hospital and inpatient care did not differ for total nu...

background this paper aims to investigate the development trend of traditional chinese medicine (tcm) hospitals in china and explore their medical service innovations, with special reference to the changing co-existence with western medicine (wm) at tcm hospitals.   methods quantitative data at macro level was collected from official databases of china health statistical yearbook and extracts o...

BACKGROUND Inpatient care is the primary driver of costs for patients with heart failure. It is unclear whether recent advances in heart failure care have reduced the costs to Medicare for the care of inpatients with heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS In a retrospective cohort study of 1 363 977 elderly Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with heart failure between January 1, 2001, and Decemb...

BACKGROUND Population is ageing rapidly and prevalence of cardiovascular diseases is increasing in China. This study aims to examine the patterns of outpatient and inpatient health care utilization across different demographic and socioeconomic groups in older people with cardiovascular disease in China. METHODS Data were from World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global Aging and Adult He...

BACKGROUND Inpatient palliative care is important for patients with terminal pancreatic cancer. However, the differences between inpatient palliative care and acute hospital care for inpatients with pancreatic cancer have not been explored in a population-based study. METHODS This population-based nationwide study was conducted using data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance database to ...

The public policy of deinstitutionalization has predominated mental health planning and decision-making in recent decades. The government and consumer groups have joined together to find ways to decrease the state mental hospital inpatient population. There is a consistent belief in the need to reduce the utilization of inpatient care that has resulted in a decline from 413,066 state mental hos...