Health Care Costs - Science topic

Рак передміхурової залози є однією з найбільших медичних проблем, з якими стикається чоловіче населення в різних країнах світу. Рак передміхурової залози є гормонозалежною пухлиною, зростання та проліферація як нормальних, так і пухлинних клітин значно залежать від рівня андрогенів. Аналоги гонадотропін-рилізинг гормону широко застосовують в терапі...

Background: Frailty is a geriatric syndrome with repercussions on health, disability, and dependency. Objectives: To assess health resource use and costs attributable to frailty in the aged population. Methods: A population-based observational longitudinal study was performed, with follow-up from January 2018 to December 2019. Data were obtain...

Background Many countries are looking for ways to increase nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistant/associate (PA) deployment. Countries are seeking to tackle the pressing issues of increasing healthcare demand, healthcare costs, and medical doctor shortages. This article provides insights into the potential impact of various policy measures...

The study aimed to compare the impact of Role Blurring on mental health and Work-Life Integration in the Brazilian and Spanish populations during COVID-19. Role Blurring, which is related to resources and demands in the work context, affects coping with stressors arising from role overlapping and impacts individuals’ perception of work overload and...

COVID-19 related 'Dragon pandemic' caused significant mortality and its lingering effects as long covid with huge impact on morbidity and quality of life. As pandemic has waned off, still rescue breath is in doubt due to evolving mutants and variants of great concern. COVID-19 infection involves a complex interplay of the immunological and inflamma...

Background This systematic review aims to describe the relation between physical inactivity and healthcare costs, by taking into account healthcare costs of physical-inactivity-related diseases (common practice), including physical-activity-related injuries (new) and costs in life-years gained due to avoiding diseases (new), whenever available. Mor...

Citation: Rajput, M.; Sajid, M.S.; Imran, M.; Javed, M.T.; Sparagano, O.A. A Participatory Approach in Assessing the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices (KAP) of Stakeholders and Livestock Owners about Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases from Sindh, Pakistan. Pathogens 2023, 12, 800. Abstract: Ticks and tick-borne diseases (TTBDs) are responsible for sign...

Background: Pharmacists have been co-located in general practice teams to support the quality use of medicines and optimise patient health outcomes. Evidence of the impact of pharmacist-led activities in Australian general practices is sparse. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the potential outcomes of pharmacist-led activities in Australian gen...

The sugarcane industry has a high environmental impact. In countries such as Mexico, cultivation and harvesting practices consume and pollute many ecological resources. However, quantifying these impacts is difficult due to their diverse nature and different units of measurement. In this study, an approach with two focuses was taken to assess the e...

Payment methods based on a controlled or adjusted prospective payment system rather than 'Fee for Services' or direct payment are considered beneficial to access the healthcare delivery services. The purpose of this review was to identify technical challenges faced by three WHO regions, namely, Western Pacific, South East Asia Eastern and the Medit...

Background: There is growing evidence to support the use of the psychedelic drug psilocybin for difficult-to-treat depression. This paper compares the cost-effectiveness of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy (PAP) with conventional medication, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and the combination of conventional medication and CBT. Methods: A...

OBJETIVO: Determinar las tendencias de la investigación sobre financiamiento de Sistemas de Salud en Latinoamérica entre 2018-2022. DISEÑO Y METODOLOGÍA: Estudio cuantitativo, descriptivo, transversal, retrospectivo. El tipo de estudio fue un análisis bibliométrico. Se realizó una estrategia de búsqueda en inglés, portugués y español utilizando los...

Introduction Psychosocial factors frequently occur in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs), leading to behavioral alterations and reduced therapeutic adherence. However, the burden of psychosocial disorders on costs for KTRs is unknown. The aim of the study is to identify predictors of healthcare costs due to hospital admissions and emergency depart...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) out-patient clinic is for stable patients but it requires patient’s adherence to medicine and medical checkups. Our study aimed to assess COPD out-patient clinics management efficacy with respect to medication adherence and treatment costs at 3 out-patient clinics. Data were collected through 514 patient...

Heart failure is a devastating disease that has high mortality rates and a negative impact on quality of life. Heart failure patients often experience emergency readmission after an initial episode, often due to inadequate management. A timely diagnosis and treatment of underlying issues can significantly reduce the risk of emergency readmissions....

Postoperative complications pose a significant challenge in the healthcare industry, resulting in elevated healthcare expenses and prolonged hospital stays, and in rare instances, patient mortality. To improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs, healthcare providers rely on various perioperative risk scores to guide clinical decisions and...

Introduction Falls are an important public health issue with consequences that include injuries, quality of life reduction and high healthcare costs. Studies show that falls prevention strategies are effective in reducing falls rate among community-dwelling older adults. However, the evaluation for effectiveness was usually done in a controlled set...

Introduction: Patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) require an all-encompassing and individualized care including pharmacological as well as non-pharmacological treatment approaches, such as physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech and swallowing therapy. ParkinsonAKTIV is an innovative, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive approach to g...

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a leading cause of liver disease and related mortality globally. However, most of the infected individuals in the United States re- main undiagnosed and untreated. There is a need to understand more completely the economic and disease burden impact of removing treatment restrictions and increas- ing diag...

(1) Background: Genomic medicine harbors the real potential to improve the health and healthcare journey of patients, care provider experiences, and improve the health system efficiency—even reducing healthcare costs. There is expected to be an exponential growth in medically necessary new genome-based tests and test approaches in the coming years....

e22000 Background: Hearing loss among children can influence their growth and development. It can also influence how they seek help for any significant health-related complications. While some studies have highlighted such issues in the adult population, there needs to be more data on pediatric hospitalizations. We, therefore, attempted to conduct...

Introduction Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with significant morbidity, mortality, healthcare cost and reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study aimed to assess HRQoL and associated factors among patients with CKD at both Zewditu Memorial and Tikur Anbessa Specialised Hospitals, Ethiopia. Method A cross-sectional study...

Introduction: Tobacco consumption is associated with nearly 30,000 deaths annually in Nigeria alongside other adverse health and economic effects. Our objective was to estimate the health and economic implications of the current cigarette labelling policies (text-only health warnings (HW)); new HW policies in the country (adding graphic HW with up...

Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) can impose a substantial financial burden to households in the absence of an effective financial risk protection mechanism. The national health insurance fund (NHIF) has included NCD services in its national scheme. We evaluated the effectiveness of NHIF in providing financial risk protection to househo...

A clinical risk is an inherent risk in healthcare processes, including skin biopsy procedures, and may lead to misdiagnoses, increased healthcare costs and potential harm to patients. Indeed, clinical and histopathological data must be integrated if we are to reduce clinical risks and improve diagnostic accuracy in the diagnosis of dermatologic dis...

Introduction The availability of low-cost computing and digital telecommunication in the 1980s made telehealth practicable. Telehealth has the capacity to improve healthcare access and outcomes for patients while reducing healthcare costs across a wide range of health conditions and situations. Objective This study compares the adoption, advantage...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a progressive multi-organ disease with significant morbidity placing extensive demands on the healthcare system. Little is known about those individuals with CF who continually incur high costs over multiple years. Understanding their characteristics may help inform opportunities to improve management and care, and potential...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global security threat that accounts for about 700 000 deaths annually. Studies have shown that antimicrobial resistance could result in a 2% to 3.5% reduction in global Gross Domestic Product by 2050 and a loss of between 60 and 100 trillion US dollars, worth of economic output resulting in significant and wides...

With the progressive development of academic research and the increasing standard of living, the need for medical entity identification is gradually increasing. Medical entity recognition has been rapidly developed to help build medical knowledge graphs and disease prediction, improve diagnostic accuracy, enable disease prevention, simplify clinica...

Der dieselbetriebene Straßengüterverkehr ist für fast 90 % der externen Kosten des nationalen Güterverkehrs verantwortlich. Diese Kosten werden ihm aber nur unzureichend angelastet. Der Grad der Kosteninternalisierung durch Lkw-Maut und Steuern ist sehr gering. Das gewährt ihm einen unsachgemäßen Kostenvorteil gegenüber alternativen Antriebsformen...

Objective To compare the effectiveness of the Da Vinci Surgical Robot System (DSRS) “3 + 1” and “4 + 1” models for colorectal cancer (CRC). Methods A total of 107 patients with CRC admitted to our hospital from February 2021 to May 2022 were selected for the retrospective analysis. Of these, 57 patients underwent the DSRS “4 + 1” model (control gro...

Background Pediatric rheumatic diseases are chronic illnesses that pose a huge economic burden to children and their families; one of the most common is pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (pSLE). The direct cost of pSLE has been studied in other countries. In the Philippines, this was only studied in the adult population. This study aimed to de...

With an aging population and increased chronic diseases, remote health monitoring has become critical to improving patient care and reducing healthcare costs. The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently drawn much interest as a potential remote health monitoring remedy. IoT-based systems can gather and analyze a wide range of physiological data, incl...

ZET Tip 2 diyabet dünyada ve ülkemizde prevelansı artan ciddi bir halk sağlığı sorunudur. İnsan sağlığı ve sağlık sistemi maliyetleri üzerinde küresel bir yük oluşturmaktadır. Hastaların fonksi-yonel kapasitelerini ve yaşam kalitelerini olumsuz etkileyen önemli morbitide sorunudur. Erken mortaliteye yol açar. Tip 2 diyabetin morbitidesini, mortalit...

Background A significant increase in the older adult population in Japan will significantly increase healthcare costs. This study aimed to examine the risk factors contributing to robustness transitioning to frailty in older residents. Methods Participants were aged 70 in 2016 and 76 in 2022. Participants were evaluated using the Kihon Checklist (...

Background Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is a common extraintestinal manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), affecting around one-third of patients. Objective To compare IBD progression and healthcare resource utilization in patients with and without a co-diagnosis of IDA in a real-world setting. Design A retrospective comparative study...

Background: Inhaler therapy plays a crucial role in controlling respiratory symptoms in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Incorrect or partially correct use of inhaler devices causes many chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients to continue to have respiratory symptoms due to poor drug deposition in the airway...

Objectives: The German Pharmaceutical Market Restructuring Act (AMNOG, 2011) is a two-stage process to regulate the price of new pharmaceuticals in which price negotiations are conducted based on evidence-based medical benefit assessments using data from prior clinical trials. Although the act does not explicitly set a willingness-to-pay (WTP) thr...

There is a need for an appropriate decision-making approach and a precise costing method in order to make appropriate decisions that result in managing the resource utilization, improving the efficiency of healthcare systems and processes, increasing the patient consent, and reducing the costs of healthcare services. Therefore, this study is to dev...

The presence of anaemia in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with decreased quality of life, along with increased morbidity, mortality, and hospitalization rates. This, in turn, affects healthcare costs and the utilization of medical resources. The mechanisms involved in anaemia of CKD are diverse and complex. They include re...

Introduction Poverty-related and neglected diseases (PRNDs) cause over three million deaths annually. Despite this burden, there is a large gap between actual funding for PRND research and development (R&D) and the funding needed to launch PRND products from the R&D pipeline. This study provides an economic evaluation of a theoretical global pooled...

Background: Our study aimed to identify the total costs of inpatient treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (CO-VID-19) in a tertiary institution in Serbia, an upper-middle-income country in Southeast Europe. Methods: An observational, retrospective, cost-of-illness study was performed from the perspective of the National Health Insurance Fund and...

High-sulfur petroleum coke (PC) as solid waste has high treatment cost. Gasification technology can utilize PC and lignite for co-gasification. Organically combining the two is the key to expanding the adaptability of gasification raw materials. This work used thermal analysis technology to study the gasification reaction of PC and lignite systems...

The treatment of real beet sugar mill effluent by a modified electrocoagulation process is proposed. An innovative design of an electromagnetic field-enhanced electrochemical cell consisting of a tubular screen roll anode and two cathodes (an inner and outer cathode) has been used. Different parameters have been investigated including current densi...

IntroductionChemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is a recognized adverse outcome among patients with cancer. This retrospective study aimed to quantify the treatment outcomes, resource utilization, and costs associated with antiemetic use to prevent CINV in a broad US population who received cisplatin-based chemotherapy.Methods Data from...

This book focuses on the trickling filters that originally built using rock or stone media, as a biological wastewater treatment technology which have proved simple to run, reliable, energy efficient and able to achieve successful treatment. It presents a state of the art-review of the tricking Filters with its long history of providing reliable,...

People whose jobs involve repetitive motions of the wrist and forearm can suffer from lateral epicondylitis, which is a significant burden on both the individual and the employer due to treatment costs, reduced productivity, and work absenteeism. This paper describes an ergonomic intervention to reduce lateral epicondylitis in the workstation of a...

Objective: One of the objectives of the Intersectoral Global Action Plan (IGAP) on epilepsy and other neurological disorders for 2022 to 2031 is to ensure at least 80% of people with epilepsy (PWE) will have access to appropriate, affordable, and safe anti-seizure medications (ASMs) by 2031. However, ASM affordability is a significant issue in low...

Introduction. The prevalence of tibial plateau fractures (OA/ATO 41-A, B) reaches 51.7 per 105 population per year, approximately 1% of all fractures. The current research aims to study regional features the frequency, structure, and outcomes of tibial plateau fractures. Material and methods. The impersonalized sample from the TFOMS database accord...

Background: Delandistrogene moxeparvovec (SRP-9001) is an investigational gene therapy that may delay progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a severe, rare neuromuscular disease caused by DMD gene mutations. Early cost-effectiveness analyses are important to help contextualize the value of gene therapies for reimbursement decision making...

Background Most existing prognostic models of COVID-19 require imaging manifestations and laboratory results as predictors, which are only available in the post-hospitalization period. Therefore, we aimed to develop and validate a prognostic model to assess the in-hospital death risk in COVID-19 patients using routinely available predictors at hosp...

Objective: Pituitary adenomas and their consequences impact mortality and morbidity. We studied the healthcare costs, survival and cost effectiveness of growth hormone (GH) versus no GH replacement in patients with non-functioning pituitary adenoma (NFPA). Design and methods: A cohort study including all NFPA patients followed from 1987 or the d...

The multi‐scale flexibility coordination of multiple storages is a key technology to enhance the diversified regulation ability of the power system. This paper first considers the interaction mechanism of multi‐type storage peak regulation time sequences based on the Euclidian distance, dynamic time warping distance, and storage correlation distanc...

Introduction. Achieving universal health coverage, also known as UHC, has emerged as an essential global health policy, especially in addressing the burden of spending on major (catastrophic) diseases. However, catastrophic health expenditures are not always synonymous with high healthcare costs. However, a major disaster for low-income households...

Background This study aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of patients who underwent three-port laparoscopic radical cystectomy (LRC) with orthotopic neobladder (ONB) and traditional five-port method. Methods From January 2017 to November 2020, 100 patients underwent LRC + ONB at a third-level grade A hospital. Results Our study included 55 pat...

A projected rise in patients with complex health needs and a rapidly ageing population will place an increased burden on the healthcare system. Care coordination can bridge potential gaps during care transitions and across the care continuum to facilitate care integration and the delivery of personalised care. Despite having a national strategic vi...

Questions whether appropriate coarsening is possible using standard confounders with health care cost data.

Background: A health-economic evaluation related to COVID-19 is urgently needed to allocate healthcare resources efficiently; however, relevant medical cost data in Japan concerning COVID-19 are scarce. Methods: This cross-sectional study investigated the healthcare cost for hospitalized COVID-19 patients in 2021 at Keio University Hospital. We cal...

Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background There are limited data on the mechanisms of increased healthcare costs among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Differences in healthcare expenditures at various sites of service may provide mechanistic insight into the cost differentials between patients with and without AF....

Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background Previous research on atrial fibrillation (AF)-related healthcare cost is limited by claims-derived categorization of AF diagnosis and does not assess for incremental differences in cost based on degree of AF burden. Objective To directly assess the incremental cost of device detec...

Objective: To characterize health care resource utilization (HCRU), health care costs, and adverse events (AEs) among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) initiating oral corticosteroids (OCS) versus patients without OCS use. Methods: In this retrospective cohort study (GSK Study 213061), eligible patients (aged ≥5 years at first OCS...

In recent years, the development of implantable bioelectronics has garnered significant attention. With the continuous advancement of IoT and information technology, implantable bioelectronics can be utilized more effectively for health monitoring to enhance treatment outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, and improve quality of life. Implantable energ...

Primary care has the potential to be transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) and, in particular, machine learning (ML). This review summarizes the potential of ML and its subsets in influencing two domains of primary care: pre-operative care and screening. ML can be utilized in preoperative treatment to forecast postoperative results and assist...

Background and objective Pressure injury (PI) is a frequent complication of hospital admissions, and it increases healthcare costs, morbidity, and mortality. This study aimed to use the Braden scale to assess the PI risk among hospitalized patients without PI and determine its association with patient-specific factors. Methods A cross-sectional s...

Objective: To estimate the incremental healthcare resource utilization (HRU) and cost burden posed by herpes zoster (HZ) in adult patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the United States. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted using an administrative claims database containing commercial and Medicare Advantage with Part D data,...

Objective This study aims at evaluating the cost-of-illness (COI) of patients diagnosed with Behcet’s syndrome (BS) in Italy, trying to depict the impact of different costs’ components to the overall economic burden and analysing the variability of costs according to years since diagnosis and age at first symptoms. Methods With a cross-sectional e...