Abstract Background Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a major manifestation of atherosclerosis and risk factor for morbidity mortality. Guideline-recommended therapy specialized outpatient care are essential optimal treatment. Income-based inequalities in diagnosis treatment cardiovascular diseases present, while differences PAD scarse. Knowledge the structures setting to identify solve income...

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to identify the pattern and distribution vitreoretinal (VR) diseases in Bali Mandara Eye Hospital
 Methods: A retrospective descriptive was conducted for study. We reviewed all medical records new patient diagnosed with VR diseases, from 1 January 31 December 2019. recorded measured demography, history systemic eye disease, symptoms onset, ophthal...

Floods are known to cause serious environmental damage and health impacts. Studies on flood-related diseases have been primarily on individual events, and limited evidence could be drawn on potential health impacts from floods using large population data. This study used reimbursement records of one million people of the Taiwan National Health Insurance program to compare incident diseases of t...

299 cases of incomplete abortions were admitted to jahanshah saleh hospital, razi medical school university of tehran during the period of october 10, 1973 to november 24, 1974. all were treated with single dilatation and curettage. the patient groups were roughly half outpatient and half inpatient. the information was recorded on standard forms and computed by the international fertility resea...

Interactions between the laboratory and outpatient physician are critical to ensure the appropriateness, accuracy, and utility of laboratory results. A recent Institute of Medicine report suggested that the consequences of medical errors in the outpatient setting-and the opportunities to improve-"may dwarf those in hospitals." This article focuses on the role of the physician's office in labora...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were twofold: 1) to evaluate the construct validity of the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM v. II) using structural equation modeling (SEM); and 2) to assess its concurrent validity using medication adherence criteria. METHODS Pharmacy patients filling a new medication prescription (n = 342) were recruited from 14 Michigan pharm...

BACKGROUND Adjusting for laboratory test results may result in better confounding control when added to administrative claims data in the study of treatment effects. However, missing values can arise through several mechanisms. METHODS We studied the relationship between availability of outpatient lab test results, lab values, and patient and system characteristics in a large healthcare datab...

BACKGROUND The healthcare financing reforms initiated by the Government of Georgia in 2007 have positively affected inpatient service utilisation and enhanced financial protection, especially for the poor, but they have failed to facilitate outpatient service use among chronic patients. Non-communicable diseases significantly affect Georgia's ageing population. Consequently, in this paper, we l...