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In the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing hospital operations by enhancing operational efficiency and patient care. This study focuses on the integration of ...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) represents a significant public health concern, due to its high prevalence and incidence, as well as its substantial socio-economic costs. In Spain, estimates suggest that the dire...
Chronic kidney disease or chronic renal failure is a progressive condition defined as abnormalities of kidney structure or function, present for longer than 3 months. It is estimated to affect more than 10% of...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant health shocks worldwide, along with a certain burden on healthcare systems. China's healthcare security system has been continuously improved and has essentially a...
Managing hypertension in rural China poses significant challenges, as rural physicians often struggle to provide consistent, high-quality care. Insufficient financial incentives may explain the sub-optimal lon...
Within Finland’s breast cancer screening program, all women aged 50–69 are invited to biennial screening. Current European guidelines recommend screening in ages 45–49 and 70–74 conditional upon, inter alia, d...
One of the most important ways to boost the health system’s performance and lower the rising cost of healthcare is to increase its efficiency. The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of the M...
To conduct pooled estimates and comparative evaluations of safety and efficacy, alongside cost-effectiveness and value-based pricing analyses, for systemic treatments recommended by the National Comprehensive ...
Obesity has become major public health problem around the world. Lifestyle interventions, Pharmacotherapy and bariatric surgery are the common intervention to reduce weight in clinical practice. This study aim...
The Colombian Ministry of Health's decision to increase the health insurance premium (Capitation Payment Unit) by 5.36% for 2025, close to the inflation rate, has sparked controversy. This adjustment disregard...
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a central component of the Sustainable Development Goals, and integrated healthcare is recognized as a key pathway to achieving UHC. China’s healthcare reform, aimed at reali...
The authors use county-level data to test whether an array of socioeconomic, demographic, political and religious variables explain COVID-19 vaccination rates. Results presented here build upon previous invest...
The diagnosis-intervention packet (DIP) payment reform, utilizing big data for patient classification and payment standardization, was initially developed and piloted in China. Guangzhou, the pilot mega-city, ...
To estimate the effect of economic recessions on health inequality, with a focus on identifying recessions that have a health component.
We estimate the difference in direct healthcare costs of individuals diagnosed with diabetes depending on their glucose level, considering different timespans and subgroups. Using data from administrative regi...
Component-based projections are commonly used to predict future growth in healthcare spending. The current study aimed to compare pure component-based projections to projections using microlevel data to invest...
Productivity in the healthcare sector has evolved as an appealing research topic in the last few years. Despite the growing interest, the extant scientific literature mostly concentrates on methodologies rathe...
During the post-pandemic era, there has been growing anxiety regarding health security, especially among the middle class worldwide. The public’s confidence in the healthcare system encompasses their expectati...
Cancer patients face a costly trade-off between medical care and basic necessities including food. This study aims to explore whether catastrophic health expenditures lead to food insecurity among older cancer...
As the number of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) demonstrating the survival benefits of combination therapies in previously treated multiple myeloma (MM) patients increases, it is essential to determine the ...
Fertility care represents a financial burden on patients and healthcare services alike and can represent a barrier to entry for many couples. Controlled ovarian stimulation (COH) is routinely used as part of i...
The use of health care services by the most vulnerable households in low-and middle-income countries is a major challenge. This includes ensuring access to health services and protecting households from the fi...
Individuals receiving geriatric care are often frail and afflicted with multiple chronic conditions demanding care from several medical disciplines, and from several different care providing units across the h...
Adjusting the health insurance reimbursement rate is essential to optimize the allocation of medical resources. This paper investigates the effect of health insurance reimbursement rates on middle-aged and eld...
China started a pilot public hospital reform in 2012 to improve governance and efficiency in healthcare services delivery among county-level hospitals. This study aims to investigate the impact of the pilot re...
Out-of-pocket payment remains one of the ways to finance health care in Ethiopia accounting 31%. These out-of-pocket health expense leads citizens’ face catastrophic and impoverishing expenditure. The most rec...
Cancelled operations can potentially impact both health and patient experience through their effect on waiting times. However, identifying causal relationships is challenging. One possible solution is to consi...
Different types of mathematical models can be used to forecast the development of diseases as well as associated costs and analyse the cost-effectiveness of interventions. The set of models available to assess...
Foodborne disease is a great concern to low- and middle-income countries. To prevent illness and death, intervention strategies need to be implemented across the food safety system and should include promoting...
The annual increase in emergency department (ED) visits in Taiwan has led to overcrowding in major hospitals and extended patient stays in the ED. International studies suggest that prolonged ED stays may infl...
Patient moral hazard is a significant issue in healthcare system reform and a prominent factor affecting the efficiency of healthcare services in China. Based on the consolidation of urban and rural resident h...
Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration rates have shown an increase in rural areas in the past decade, increasing the bargaining power of MA plans relative to rural hospitals. We study the effect that this increa...
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) prevalence rates are around 5–10% of school-aged children. We test whether medication use for ADHD decreases the likelihood of risky behaviour (sexual behaviour,...
During the last decades, there has been a great interest on the link between macroeconomic conditions and health. More precisely, many studies had studied as health outcome cardiovascular disease mortality, fo...
This paper examines the resource mismatch in China’s healthcare sector from 2010 to 2019. We use structural efficiency to measure the resource mismatch in the healthcare industry (0.2–0.7). We find that an inc...
Healthcare expenditures have risen in middle- and high-income countries. One of the potential contributors is the overuse of diagnostics. I explore whether medical imaging is overused when privately owned clin...
In their interesting systematic review, Gallehzan et al. quoted our article Cost-utility analysis of teriflunomide in naïve vs. previously treated patients with relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) in...
The ORIENT-15 double-blind randomized controlled trial demonstrated that the addition of sintilimab to chemotherapy for locally advanced or metastatic oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) resulted in bet...
Poverty remains a key barrier to accessing essential maternal health services, particularly in low- and middle-income countries like Malawi. Despite the recognised importance of antenatal care (ANC) in ensurin...
The Statutory Health Insurance scheme is one of two main schemes of health care system financing in Europe. This scheme mainly relies on wage-based contributions from employers and employees and is thus prone ...
With the rising spread of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), it becomes imperative to understand the determinants of resource utilization in ART versus spontaneous pregnancies to enhance policies directed...
Given the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative to examine the economic response policies implemented by governments. This study aims to review evidence from the Middle East and North A...
China’s primary healthcare (PHC) system, together with rural healthcare services, remains the Achilles’ heel in the national healthcare system. Healthcare workers, specifically village doctors, are an integral...
The occurrence of health shocks affects households economically in various ways. It most often leads to missed work, thus inducing a decrease in productivity and a loss of income. These effects are even more s...
The literature on care coordination refers to high service costs, low quality, and consumer dissatisfaction, as the consequences of institutional fragmentation and uncoordinated care.
The goal of this study is to estimate the association between hospital system market share and negotiated prices.
Healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) are common in long-term care facilities (LTCF) and cause significant burden. Infection prevention and control (IPC) measures include the clinical best practices (CBP) of...
Acute stroke treatment is time-critical. To provide qualified stroke care in areas without 24/7 availability of a stroke neurologist, the concept of teleneurology was established, which is based on remote vide...
Hepatitis B is globally recognized as a major public health problem that imposes a huge economic burden on society. China is a major country with hepatitis B infection; however, an updated overview of the econ...
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