Maternal knowledge about infant feeding, maternal perceptions of applicability of infant feeding guidelines, and manner and type of information useful for infant feeding decisions emerged as themes. Implications of themes for informing an educational program for mothers to delay the introduction of solid ...
for children under Medicaid, and to change existing provisions that govern outreach funding under SCHIP. This report provides general background information on the current status of eligibility, enrollment, and outreach issues for children under Medicaid and SCHIP. We analyze recent enrollment statistics...
the ethical guidelines for researching with human subjects may not always apply to public health surveillance. The WHO provides the following guidelines on ethical issues for conducting public health surveillance: (WHO2017).
but Medicaid enrollment set a new record high. Average 2002 monthly numbers: Food stamps, 20.2 million; TANF, 5.1 million; and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), 6.9 million. During the year 50.9 million persons received Medicaid
Frequent ED visits for ambulatory sensitive care also have significant negative societal impact as ED services are far more costly than outpatient physician visits to the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The study findings support H1 and H2 in that the ED visit frequency was significantly associated ...
PCA was suitable for use because the variables were all measured at the continuous level, had linear relationships, and outlier tests indicated no significant outliers among the variables. Following general guidelines suggested by Dunteman (1989), only components with eigenvalues above 1.0 were ...
Indeed, in clinical scenarios without imperative contraindications, all patients diagnosed with MIBC and eligible for treatment should receive a uniform standard of care based on recommended and current guidelines. In this study, we sought to investigate the economic disparities in NAC and PLND receipt...