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Following exposure to 42 US billion-dollar weather disasters (severe storm, flood, flood/severe storm, tropical cyclone and winter storm) between 2011 and 2016, we used a difference-in-differences (DID) approach to quantify changes in the rates of emergency department (ED) visits, nonelective ...
Healthcare utilisation included five binary measures of whether using any of the healthcare services, including inpatient care (hospital stays and re-admission to hospital), outpatient care (physician visits) and nursing home care in the past two years (yes/no). We also measured the amount of ...
The study protocol was approved by the Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal Ethics committee, and participation was voluntary. In 2005, we contacted all 659 existing medical clinics; in 2010, that number was 606, all of whom were contacted. The response rates were 72% ...
Two feet of snow coated the northeastern part of Nebraska, and the area’s phone company reported that 1,700 telephone poles fell during the blizzard. This storm, however, was only the beginning of a very long winter for the people of Nebraska. The snow left behind by this first blizzard...
The ability to make predictions of adherence at this time scale not only allows new opportunities for improving patient behaviour towards better adherence rates, but also helps therapeutic service providers decide when to introduce following-up interventions which can help address the non-adherence ...
“Discounts” from billed rates can have serious side effects. Just to call them discounts is something of a misnomer. For many, there seems little connection between what it costs and what is billed. Medicare of course ignores billed prices and pays what the procedures cost plus a margin. ...
the region also experiences elevated levels of PM2.5during winter months from wood stove use with complex mountain meteorology and inversion effects. Here, we explored short-term PM2.5effects on three pediatric respiratory health outcomes (asthma, LRTI, and URTI) and how other factors, such as ext...
transportation and accessing services during winter can be a substantial challenge. Many of the women’s spouses worked long and/or irregular hours or did not have a driver’s licence. This was challenging given that spouses provided the primary support for the women participants in this study. ...
In healthcare, the development and deployment of insufficiently fair systems of artificial intelligence (AI) can undermine the delivery of equitable care. Assessments of AI models stratified across subpopulations have revealed inequalities in how patient