It reviews official legislation on cost-sharing in Germany from 1883 to 2008, and provides a structured literature review on the efficiency and equity of cost-sharing. First introduced in 1923, cost-sharing has become a widespread instrument in social health insurance regulation since the 1980s. ...
The application of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors seems to be constrained in the German health care system. We investigate the cost-effectiveness of the AChE inhibitor Galantamine for patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a German context.A Markov model as the decision theoretic framework...
Germany has the highest per capita health care spending among EU member states, but its hospitals face pressure to generate profits independently due to the government’s withdrawal of investment cost coverage. The diagnosis related groups (DRG) payment system was implemented to address the cost issu...
This analysis evaluated the cost- effectiveness of general vaccination against rotavirus in Germany paid by the national health insurance. METHODS The analyses were conducted from the perspective of the national healthcare system. The model followed the cohort of 685.795 children, who were born in ...
(2012), the United States spent approximately $2.6 trillion dollars on health care in 2010, a number which is 9-11% greater than other nations such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan. Factors that impact the increasing cost include aging populations, rise of chronic disease, improper...
on a study from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) which found that providing migrants with timely access to health screening and treatment would be cost saving in countries such as Germany, Greece and Sweden, in comparison with the waiting until they need emergency care. The...
Purpose To investigate the cost-effectiveness and economic impact of the KineSpring System in the treatment for knee osteoarthritis in Germany. Methods Functional outcome scores of the general German population and knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients under surgical treatments (HTO, UKA and TKA), conserva...
dollars, while in Germany it stood at 5.31 million U.S. dollars. The cost of data breach by industry and segment Data breach costs vary depending on the industry and segment. For the fourth consecutive year, the global healthcare sector registered the highest costs of data breach, which in...
Secure Dynamic access control scheme of PHR in cloud computing. Not until the next accident, a different security class Si could be added to the PHR scheme. In terms of healthcare, patients would maintain and up-... TS Chen,CH Liu,TL Chen,... - 《Journal of Medical Systems》 被引量...
Frequencies of healthcare resource utilization are presented in Annex I, Table S4. These data were assessed based on confirmed pertussis cases by comparing the baseline (a period of 18 months to 6 months before diagnosis date) with the period around pertussis diagnosis (from 6 months before to ...