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PD Dr. J. Loss 《Pr?vention und Gesundheitsf?rderung》2008,3(2):53-55
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Dr. U. Schütte 《Pr?vention und Gesundheitsf?rderung》2007,2(4):197-198
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Paolo Pertile Emanuele Torri Luciano Flor Stefano Tardivo 《Health care management science》2009,12(3):217-227
This paper presents the economic evaluation from a hospital’s perspective of the investment in positron emission tomography,
adopting a real options approach. The installation of this equipment requires a major capital outlay, while uncertainty on
several key variables is substantial. The value of several timing strategies, including sequential investment, is determined
taking into account that future decisions will be based on the information available at that time. The results show that adopting
this approach may have an impact on the timing of investment, because postponing the investment may be optimal even when the
Expected Net Present Value of the project is positive.
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Stefano TardivoEmail: |
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Carl Hampus Lyttkens 《The European journal of health economics》2009,10(3):239-242
Vita brevis, ars longa (or...life is too short for abstracts).
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Carl Hampus LyttkensEmail: |
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Greg Bognar 《Health care analysis》2008,16(2):97-113
One way of evaluating health is in terms of its impact on well-being. It has been shown, however, that evaluating health this
way runs into difficulties, since health and other aspects of well-being are not separable. At the same time, the practical
implications of the inseparability problem remain unclear. This paper assesses these implications by considering the relations
between theories, components, and indicators of well-being.
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Greg BognarEmail: |
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Jeff Richardson Stuart J. Peacock Angelo Iezzi 《The European journal of health economics》2009,10(1):103-109
The procedures used in cost utility analysis for eliciting quality of life weights have generally omitted any instruction
concerning the level of consumption in a health state, despite the fact that some health states preclude the possibility of
normal employment. This introduces ambiguity into the interpretation of quality of life (QoL) scores, and project ranking
is sensitive to the subsequent treatment of consumption in the analysis. This article reports the results of a study that
questioned 131 respondents to a time trade-off (TTO) interview about their assumptions concerning consumption and the amount
of thought given to consumption. Results indicate that, without prompting, most assumed unchanged consumption, implying little
bias in existing studies.
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Jeff RichardsonEmail: |
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Ansgar Resch Michael Wilke Christian Fink 《The European journal of health economics》2009,10(3):287-297
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a significant problem in many healthcare systems. In Germany, few data are available on its economic consequences
and, so far, no study has been performed using a large sample of real-life data from several hospitals. We present a retrospective
matched-pairs analysis of mortality, length of stay, and cost of MRSA patients based mainly on routine administrative data
from 11 German hospitals. Our results show that MRSA patients stay in hospital 11 days longer, exhibit 7% higher mortality,
are 7% more likely to undergo mechanical ventilation, and cause significantly higher total costs (€ 8,198).
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Christian Fink (Corresponding author)Email: URL: http://www.ramboll-management.de |
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Injury accidents occurring in the home, during educational, sports or leisure activities were estimated from samples of hospital
data, combined with fatality data from vital statistics. Uncertainty of estimated figures was assessed in simulation-based
analysis. Total economic costs to society from injuries and fatalities due to such accidents were estimated at approximately
NOK 150 billion per year. The estimated costs reveal the scale of the public health problem and lead to arguments for the
establishment of a proper injury register for the identification of preventive measures to reduce the costs to society.
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Knut VeistenEmail: |
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Andreas C. Drichoutis Panagiotis Lazaridis Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr. 《The European journal of health economics》2009,10(4):371-388
Worldwide obesity rates have stimulated interest in healthy dietary patterns. One well-known dietary pattern is the Mediterranean
diet, which has been linked with several beneficial health effects. However, concerns have also been raised regarding the
Mediterranean diet’s role in promoting weight gain. We explored the effect of the Mediterranean diet on body mass index using
the propensity score matching approach. We found no statistically significant average treatment effect on the treated and
therefore cannot confirm that a causal link exists between Mediterranean diet and body mass index.
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Andreas C. DrichoutisEmail: |
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We estimate a Logit model for the choice determinants of the mobility in the Dutch market for health insurance in 2006. The
results highlight that socio-economic, geographical, and health-related factors matter in the decision to switch health care
insurer. Moreover, previous contact with the insurer and the former type of health policy are also of influence.
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Ilaria MoscaEmail: |
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Zyphur MJ Kaplan SA Islam G Barsky AP Franklin MS 《Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice》2008,13(5):571-582
A significant body of education literature has begun using multilevel statistical models to examine data that reside at multiple
levels of analysis. In order to provide a primer for medical education researchers, the current work gives a brief overview
of some issues associated with multilevel statistical modeling. To provide an example of this technique, we then present a
multilevel analysis examining the relationship between two individual-level variables and the “cross-level” interaction between
this relationship and a school-level variable. In offering this discussion and example of multilevel modeling, we hope to
provide medical educators with a basic introduction to multilevel statistics, including the advantages of utilizing these
techniques.
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Michael J. ZyphurEmail: |
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A queueing network model to analyze the impact of parallelization of care on patient cycle time 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The total time a patient spends in an outpatient facility, called the patient cycle time, is a major contributor to overall
patient satisfaction. A frequently recommended strategy to reduce the total time is to perform some activities in parallel
thereby shortening patient cycle time. To analyze patient cycle time this paper extends and improves upon existing multi-class
open queueing network model (MOQN) so that the patient flow in an urgent care center can be modeled. Results of the model
are analyzed using data from an urgent care center contemplating greater parallelization of patient care activities. The results
indicate that parallelization can reduce the cycle time for those patient classes which require more than one diagnostic and/or
treatment intervention. However, for many patient classes there would be little if any improvement, indicating the importance
of tools to analyze business process reengineering rules. The paper makes contributions by implementing an approximation for
fork/join queues in the network and by improving the approximation for multiple server queues in both low traffic and high
traffic conditions. We demonstrate the accuracy of the MOQN results through comparisons to simulation results.
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Ronald E. GiachettiEmail: |
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Desiree W. Murray David Rabiner Ann Schulte Kristy Newitt 《Child & youth care forum》2008,37(3):111-126
This study examined the feasibility and integrity of a daily report card (DRC) intervention in a small sample of randomly
assigned elementary students with previously diagnosed ADHD and classroom impairment. In order to enhance implementation,
a conjoint behavioral consultation approach was used in which parents were engaged as active participants in the treatment.
Intervention parents and teachers maintained moderately high levels of adherence over 4 months based on multiple methods of
implementation assessment, and acceptability ratings were all very favorable. Intervention participants demonstrated significant
improvement in academic skills and productivity at post-test as compared to control participants, with moderately large effect
sizes. Results suggest that a DRC intervention implemented within conjoint parent–teacher consultation may help to reduce
the research to practice gap in evidence-based school interventions.
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Desiree W. MurrayEmail: |
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Pesticides and farmer health in Nicaragua: a willingness-to-pay approach to evaluation 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
A contingent valuation approach to assess the health effects of chemical pesticides among Nicaraguan vegetable farmers is
presented. Farmers’ valuation of health is measured as their willingness to pay (WTP) for low-toxicity pesticides. Results
show that farmers are willing to spend an additional amount of about 28% of current pesticide expenditure for avoiding health
risks. The validity of results is established in scope tests and with a two-step regression model. WTP depends on farmers’
experience with poisoning, income variables, and current exposure to pesticides. The results can help in designing rural health
policies and in the formulation of programmes aiming to reduce the negative effects of pesticides.
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Hermann WaibelEmail: |
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Improving patient flow at an outpatient clinic: study of sources of variability and improvement factors 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Suresh Chand Herbert Moskowitz John B. Norris Steve Shade Deanna R. Willis 《Health care management science》2009,12(3):325-340
This paper focuses on analyzing and improving patient flow at an outpatient clinic of the Indiana University Medical Group.
A structured process analysis and improvement approach was used to identify sources of variability and improvement factors.
A process map, that matched the flow process at the clinic, was developed and validated. Key sources of variability that had
potential to contribute to congestion in flow were identified. Data on task times were collected by observing the process
with stopwatch or from historical records. A simulation model corresponding to the process map was developed, and the output
was validated. Several ideas to modify clinic operations were tested on the validated simulation model. The overall result
was an improvement in both the mean and the standard deviation of patient wait time, as well as higher utilization of physicians’
time. The clinic has implemented several of our recommendations and experienced significant improvements.
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Suresh ChandEmail: |
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Pedro Pita Barros Xavier Martinez-Giralt 《The European journal of health economics》2009,10(4):437-453
Recently the Portuguese Government announced the launching of public–private partnerships (PPPs) to build hospitals with the
distinctive feature that infrastructure construction and clinical activities management will be awarded to separate private
parties. Also, one of the parties will be in charge of providing soft facilities. We explore alternative configurations of
contracts and assess whether the equilibrium allocations attain the first-best solution.
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Xavier Martinez-Giralt (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Leen De Vreese 《Medicine, health care, and philosophy》2009,12(3):345-353
Epidemiologists’ discussions on causation are not always very enlightening with regard to the notion of ‘cause’ in epidemiology.
Epidemiologists rightly work from a science-based approach to causation in epidemiology, but largely disagree about the matter.
Disagreement may be partly due to confusion of the question of useful concepts for causal inference in epidemiological practice
with the question of the metaphysical presuppositions of causal concepts used in epidemiology. In other words, epidemiologists
seem to confuse the practical results of epidemiological research at the population level with the metaphysical views about
the reality of disease causation at the individual level in their writings on causation.
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Leen De VreeseEmail: |