A generation ago, Wennberg described most variation in clinical practice as “unwarranted” (which he defined as variation in the utilization of health care services that cannot be explained by variation in patient illness or patient preferences) [63]. Others coined the term “postcode lottery” to...
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We assessed the effect of continuity of care (COC) on the frequency of hospitalization for Ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) to estimate the impact of COC and hearing disability relative to the controls. This retrospective cohort study used cl
The current study was approved by a National Health Service (NHS) Research Ethics Committee (reference: 17/NW/0089). Relevant ethical and legal guidelines concerning confidentiality and the storage of personal data were followed (e.g., General Data Protection Regulation). Signed informed consent for...
now is the time to be sure your rainy-day fund is filled. The prevailing wisdom is that individuals should have enough in savings to cover expenses for three to six months. However, retirees, pre-retirees and those in industries that may see long-term impacts from a recession may want to...
in May 2021 published a detailed analysis on the implementation of the EU Securitization Regulation (SECR), also in view of the potential of securitization in the post-Covid 19 phase; however, we recall that the implementation of the SECR, launched in 2019, has led to an increase in the ...
THE IMPACTS OF PATENTED TECHNOLOGY: THREE CASE STUDIES A...Kolitch, ShawnLewis & Clark Northwestern School of LawEnvironmental LawKolitch, S. (2006), "The environmental and public health impacts of US patent law: making the case for incorporating a precautionary principle", Environmental Law, Vo...
healthcare: (1) those weighing towards mathematics and computation, (2) those who have a vested interest in the end-use of modeling and simulation, and (3) those with an inclination towards standards, guidance, evaluation and regulation (Additional file2: Table SM-1). Each team also ...
Almost a third of all people who entered Germany to seek protection since 2010 were under the age of 18. Asylum-seeking and refugee (ASR) adolescents in Germany face reduced entitlements to healthcare and experience barriers in accessing mental healthcar
However, just as this study will likely take many years to come to fruition, parallel efforts in health economics, regulation, and other related areas will be required, including the ethics of privacy, confidentiality and data sharing. New methods of monitoring health and detecting disease and ...