Publications by authors named "D Markovits"
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- Altruism is crucial to physician professionalism, but its impact on care quality and costs is not well understood.
- A nationwide study involving over 250 US physicians explored the relationship between physician altruism, patient outcomes, and Medicare spending.
- Results indicated that patients of altruistic physicians had significantly fewer preventable hospital admissions and emergency visits, along with 9.26% lower spending.
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- The study investigated how COVID-19 affected patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIIRD) in Israel, particularly during different outbreaks and after vaccination.
- The research showed that the first three COVID-19 outbreaks resulted in higher severity and mortality among AIIRD patients compared to the fourth outbreak, which came after vaccination started.
- Ultimately, finding revealed that vaccination significantly reduced severe outcomes from COVID-19, while the disease did not notably worsen AIIRD conditions in the months following recovery.
Objectives: We aimed to assess the efficacy and patient satisfaction of subcutaneous tocilizumab (SC TCZ) in patients previously treated with intravenous tocilizumab (IV TCZ) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: We conducted a single-centre retrospective study at the Rheumatology Day Care at the Rheumatology Institute, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel. Clinical and laboratory data of IV TCZ treated patients who switched to SC TCZ were retracted and analysed.
Physicians' professional ethics require that they put patients' interests ahead of their own and that they should allocate limited medical resources efficiently. Understanding physicians' extent of adherence to these principles requires understanding the social preferences that lie behind them. These social preferences may be divided into two qualitatively different trade-offs: the trade-off between self and other (altruism) and the trade-off between reducing differences in payoffs (equality) and increasing total payoffs (efficiency).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHypocomplementemia has been reported in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with tocilizumab (TCZ), but its long-term consequences are unknown. We assessed the long-term outcome of patients treated with TCZ who developed hypocomplementemia regarding serious bacterial infections or autoimmune diseases (AID).The charts of patients treated with TCZ at two rheumatology centers were reviewed retrospectively.
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