INTRODUCTION The Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program supports interventions, including care-delivery innovations, provider performance measurement and feedback initiatives, and tools for providers and consumers to enhance care. Using a learning health system framework, we examine the Beacon Communities' processes in building and strengthening health IT (HIT) infrastructures, specific...

From 1971 to 1982, the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE) in the United States randomly allocated families to health insurance plans with zero, 25%, 50% or 95% copayments.2 The study found that “Cost sharing in general had no adverse effects on participant health”. This finding might support a copayment. However, the study also provides evidence against copayments by emphasising the finding...

The focus of this review is to collate the literature on the phenomenon of impaired thermal adaptation after hypoxic ischaemic (HI) delivery often culminating in hypothermia. This phenomenon appears different in severity and duration to a spontaneous postnatal fall in temperature observed after normal delivery. The original observation and contemporary descriptions of the temperature response t...

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This study expands on previous research on the healthy immigrant effect (HIE) in Canada by considering the effects of both immigrant and visible minority status on self-rated health for males and females in mid-(45-64) and later life (65+). The findings reveal a strong HIE among new immigrant middle-aged men, particularly non-Whites. For older men of color the reality is strikingly different: t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether full-term deliveries resulting in neonates diagnosed with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy are associated with a significant increase in the rate of subsequent unscheduled cesarean deliveries. METHODS We conducted a retrospective chart review study and examined all deliveries in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hadassah University Hospital, Mt. Scopu...

The aim of this study was to analyze the association of different clinical contributors of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy with NOS3 gene polymorphisms. A total of 110 children with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and 128 control children were selected for this study. Association of gender, gestational age, birth weight, Apgar score, cranial ultrasonography, and magnetic resonance imaging findi...

the occurrence of neonatal seizures may be the first and perhaps, the only clinical sign of a central nervous system (cns) disorder in the newborn infant. identifying the etiology for the neonatal seizures is/critical to prognosis and treatment. the most common etiology for neonatal seizures is hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. seizures may indicate the presence of a potentially treatable etiolo...