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227 Received December 13, 2010; revision accepted for publication February 16, 2011. doi: 10.1620/tjem.223.227 Correspondence: Goh Eun Chung, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, Healthcare Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital Healthcare System Gangnam Center, 39FL., Gangnam Finance Center 737, Yeoksam-Dong, Gangnam-Gu, Seoul 135-984, Korea. e-mail: [email protected] Elevated P...

background: a dramatic increase in healthcare expenditures is a major health policy concern worldwide. understanding factors that underlie the growth in healthcare expenditures is essential to assist decision-makers in finding best policies to manage healthcare costs. we aimed to examine the determinants of healthcare spending in iran over the periods of 1978-2011. methods: a time series analys...

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1 Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare, Boston, Massachusetts. 2 Executive Director of Healthcare, Innosight Institute, Sunnyvale, California. 3 President and CEO, DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance, Washington, DC. 4 Founder and Principal, Aging in Place Technology Watch, Port St. Lucie, Florida. 5 George Dock Collegiate Professor of Medicine, Center for Behavioral and Dec...

Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA; National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA; Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA; Division of Clinical Decision Making, Department of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center; Department of Economics, Harvard University,...

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background determining and understanding of healthcare costs and its financing method is one of the most important subjects understatement of which can cause such major problems as excessive health costs for households due to the high rate of out-of-pocket expenses. objectives the current study aimed to analyze the healthcare costs and determine the share of isfahan province, iran, from the tot...

K-P. Hwang, Z. Zhang, B. J. Reed, M. L. Underwood, R. J. Stafford, P. T. Tinkey, D. C. Alsop, and R. Uthamanthil Applied Science Laboratory, General Electric Healthcare, Houston, TX, United States, Department of Imaging Physics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States, GE Healthcare, Waueksha, WI, United States, Department of Imaging Physics, University of Texas MD Anderson Can...