Publications by authors named "Duong Anh Vuong"
Significance: Quality refractive error care is essential for reducing vision impairment. Quality indicators and standardized approaches for assessing the quality of refractive error care need to be established.
Purpose: This study aimed to develop a set of indicators for assessing the quality of refractive error care and test their applicability in a real-world setting using unannounced standardized patients (USPs).
Objectives: The study objective was to identify the size of different hospital financing sources for different hospital services and their impact on the uninsured.
Methods: A panel dataset of 84 public general hospitals (2005-2008) with cross-section data on hospital activity and hospital revenue was created and used to calculate unit costs of different hospital services by applying multiple regression models. The resulting risk of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) was estimated based on official income statistics.
Objectives: This study aims to identify the cost-effectiveness of two brain metastatic treatment modalities, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) versus surgical resection (SR), from the perspective of Germany's Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) System.
Methods: Retrospectively reviewing 373 patients with brain metastases (BMs) who underwent SR (n=113) and SRS (n=260). Propensity score matching was used to adjust for selection bias (n=98 each); means of survival time and survival curves were defined by the Kaplan-Meier estimator; and medical costs of follow-up treatment were calculated by the Direct (Lin) method.
Article Synopsis
- This study assesses the cost-effectiveness of two treatments for brain metastasis—surgical resection (SR) and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)—in Vietnam, considering impacts on patients and families.
- SRS had a slightly higher average survival time (11.9 months) than SR (10.5 months), but despite lower direct costs for SR, it incurred significantly higher indirect costs.
- Ultimately, SRS emerged as the more cost-effective option, highlighting the need to consider the overall financial implications of each treatment when making decisions.
Extracranial metastases and their frequency by sites have been described as prognostic factors for survival of patients with brain metastasis. However, these factors must be identified and described in more detail for a large series of patients. Using routine data from the largest German health insurance fund, 5,074 patients with brain metastasis who were diagnosed and treated in 2008 were analyzed to identify the frequency and distribution of extracranial metastatic sites concurrent with brain metastasis in relation to age, gender, and tumor type.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Despite the accomplishments, the economic and social reform program of Vietnam has had negative effects, such as limited access to health care services for those disadvantaged in the new market economy. Among this group are persons with mental disorders. This paper aims to understand the burden of mental disorders and availability of mental health services (MHS) in Vietnam.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: There is a lack of an overview of overall and site-specific cancer incidence time trends in Vietnam, especially for the period after the year 2000. This paper aims at describing the development of cancer incidence for some cancer sites during 1993-2007.
Methods: The Age Standardized Rate (ASR) of cancer incidence data from population based cancer registries of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh and Cantho cities were used to analyze temporary trends of cancer incidence by site, age and sex group.