Publications by authors named "K G Pillai"
What is the coverage of your health insurance plan? An audit of hospital billing.
AIMS Public Health
September 2024
The provocative advice of health policymakers in endorsing private health insurance, as a critical tool for health reforms, is well-reckoned as a deterrent to mounting healthcare expenditure in the wake of the public health insurance quagmire. However, scholarly evidence has condemned the ineffectiveness of private health insurance in containing out-of-pocket expenditure. In this backdrop, we carried out a nuanced investigation of the coverage pattern of private health insurance policies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The outcomes of motor and non-motor features of Parkinson's disease (PD) following DBS vary among its subtypes. We tested whether pre-operative motor subtyping using the modified Tremor/PIGD ratio, could indicate the short-term motor, non-motor and quality of life (QOL) outcomes of STN-DBS.
Method: In this prospective study, 39 consecutive STN-DBS cases were assessed in Drug-OFF state before surgery and subtyped using the ratio of tremor and PIGD scores (T/P ratio).
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- The study investigated the Vascular Surgery consults at a Children's Hospital over 4.5 years, documenting patient demographics, types of vascular issues (arterial, venous, etc.), and treatment outcomes.
- Out of 100 consults, most cases involved acute conditions, with the majority of patients being young (average age 8.5 years), and common causes being iatrogenic injuries and trauma.
- While many patients were managed with medical therapy, a small number required surgical interventions, and notably, no vascular-related deaths were reported in the study.
Background: Oculomotor impairment is an important diagnostic feature of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) and PSP subtypes.
Objectives: We assessed the role of video oculography (VOG) in confirming clinically suspected slow saccades in PSP and differentiating PSP from Parkinson's disease (PD). We also measured the correlation of both saccadic velocity and latency in PSP with scores in PSP rating scale, Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Frontal assessment battery (FAB).
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- A catalog was created detailing the Asilidae species found in modern India, supported by a comprehensive literature review.
- It identifies nine subfamilies, 60 valid genera, and 478 valid species, with 368 species (77%) possibly being endemic to India.
- The catalog includes taxonomic, synonymical, nomenclatural, and geographic details for each species, serving as an initial effort towards a more comprehensive examination of India's Asilidae fauna.