No theory: an explanation of the lack of consistency in cross-country health care comparisons using non-parametric estimators [0.03%]
无理论:使用非参数估计器解释跨国卫生保健比较中缺乏一致性的原因
Richard Gearhart
Richard Gearhart
Since 2000 several papers have examined the efficiency of healthcare delivery systems worldwide. These papers have extended the literature using drastically different input and output combinations from one another, with little theoretical o...
Frontline staff motivation levels and health care quality in rural and urban primary health facilities: a baseline study in the Greater Accra and Western regions of Ghana [0.03%]
加纳Greater Accra和Western地区农村与城市基层卫生机构医务人员激励水平与医疗质量基线调查研究报告
Robert Kaba Alhassan,Edward Nketiah-Amponsah
Robert Kaba Alhassan
Background: The population of Ghana is increasingly becoming urbanized with about 70 % of the estimated 26.9 million people living in urban and peri-urban areas. Nonetheless, eight out of the ten regions in Ghana remain p...
Adnan M S Fakir
Adnan M S Fakir
Objective: The causal link between a household's economic standing and child health is known to suffer from endogeneity. While past studies have exemplified the causal link to be small, albeit statistically significant, t...
Financial burden and quality of life of informal caregivers of patients with wet age-related macular degeneration [0.03%]
湿年龄相关性黄斑变性疾病患者的照料者的经济负担及生活质量研究
Hannah Weyer-Wendl,Peter Walter
Hannah Weyer-Wendl
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to quantify the cost burden, care times and the impact on the quality of life (QoL) of informal caring relatives caring for patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (wet ...
Systematic review of health state utility values for economic evaluation of colorectal cancer [0.03%]
结直肠癌卫生经济学评价的健康状况效用值系统综述
Kim Jeong,John Cairns
Kim Jeong
Cost-utility analyses undertaken to inform decision making regarding colorectal cancer (CRC) require a set of health state utility values (HSUVs) so that the time CRC patients spend in different health states can be aggregated into quality-...
Implementing personalized medicine with asymmetric information on prevalence rates [0.03%]
利用关于流行率的不对称信息实施个性化医疗
Fernando Antoñanzas,Carmelo A Juárez-Castelló,Roberto Rodríguez-Ibeas
Fernando Antoñanzas
Although personalized medicine is becoming the new paradigm to manage some diseases, the economics of personalized medicine have only focused on assessing the efficiency of specific treatments, lacking a theoretical framework analyzing the ...
The impact of health insurance programs for children: evidence from Vietnam [0.03%]
越南儿童健康保险计划的影响:来自越南的证据
Cuong Nguyen
Cuong Nguyen
This study assesses the impact of children's health insurance programs on health care utilization and health care expenditures of children from 6 to 14 years old in Vietnam using four rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys ...
Ulrike Theidel,J-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg
Ulrike Theidel
Background: The AMNOG regulation, introduced in 2011 in Germany, changed the game for new drugs. Now, the industry is required to submit a dossier to the GBA (the central decision body in the German sickness fund system) ...
Patient preferences in allergy immunotherapy (AIT) in Germany - a discrete-choice-experiment [0.03%]
德国过敏免疫治疗患者的偏好倾向——一项离散选择实验研究
Kathrin Damm,Janina Volk,Andreas Horn et al.
Kathrin Damm et al.
Background: Allergic Rhinitis (AR) is a common disorder in Europe with Allergic Asthma (AA) as a frequent comorbidity. Allergy immunotherapy (AIT) is the only causal therapy of AR and AA, and can be administered as subcut...
What, who and when? Incorporating a discrete choice experiment into an economic evaluation [0.03%]
什么人、什么时候用?将离散选择实验结合到经济学评估中
Michela Tinelli,Mandy Ryan,Christine Bond
Michela Tinelli
Background: Economic evaluation focuses on Quality-Adjusted-Life-Years (QALYs) as the main valuation method. However, it is well known that factors beyond health related quality of life are important to patients and the p...