176 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/8/176 Background The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err is Human [1] has fundamentally changed the landscape of American medicine by challenging us to examine and improve the safety and quality of the health care system in this country [2...
Andreas Hartkopf, Department of women's health, University of Tuebingen, Germany Jeffrey Hawley, MD, Wexner Medical Center at the Ohio State University, USA Mohammad Hasanain, PhD, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Miami Health System, USA Bangshun He, PhD, Nanjing First Hospital,...
1Tampere School of Public Health, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, 2Department of Health and Functional Capacity, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland, 3Finnish Office for Health Technology Assessment (FinOHTA), National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STA...
Several problems exist in the urban health system, for example, health resources were allocated to different lev- els of health facilities with little going to community health services, resulting in under development of these services in both preventive and curative health care. In response to ...
BMC Health Services Research BioMed Central Research article Open Access Chronic kidney-disease screening service quality: questionnaire survey research evidence from Taichung city Deng-Juin Lin1, Ya-Hsin Li2, Jar-Yuan Pai*3, Ing-Cheau Sheu4, Robert Glen5, Ming-Jen Chou3 and Ching-Yi Lee1 ...
Cognitive impairment, a characteristic and prior stage of dementia, is a serious public health concern in Korea a country with rapidly aging population. In a neurovisceral integration model, cognitive ability is connected to emotional and autonomic regul
However, following the economic reforms which began in the 1980s, STDs reappeared and today constitute a major public health problem in China. This resurgence parallels the privatization of the economy, the breakdown of the national health insurance system, the return of prostitution, and other ...
This is a desirable characteristic especially in sensitive application such as health care or cancer analysis. Similar observations can be deduced from the ROC curves in Fig. 6. This Figure reports the number of true positives as a function of the false positives, and it includes for ...
PBRNs improve upon the generalizability of their study results because "real-world" practitioners are the ones doing the studies, under "real-world" conditions, and with patients who enter the non-academic health care system. Our ear- lier paper demonstrated that, although PBRNs do not take ...
World Health Organization KDIGO: Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes References Bergmark BA, Udell JA, Morrow DA, Jarolim P, Kuder JF, Solomon SD, Pfeffer MA, Braunwald E, Sabatine MS. Klotho, fibroblast growth factor-23, and the renin-angiotensin system - an analysis from the PEACE ...