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Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
February 2025
Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Background: Frailty is an important prognostic indicator in older women with breast cancer. The Faurot frailty index, a validated claims-based frailty proxy measure, uses healthcare billing codes during a user-specified ascertainment window to predict frailty. We assessed how the duration of frailty ascertainment affected the ability of the Faurot frailty index to predict one-year mortality in women with stage I-II breast cancer.
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January 2025
Aetion Inc., New York, New York, USA.
Purpose: To characterize select laboratory tests ordered versus reported for patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in administrative healthcare and commercial laboratory data.
Methods: Among patients with an outpatient COVID-19 diagnosis claim in HealthVerity data (01/01/2021-12/31/2022), this study described baseline characteristics and descriptively compared SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic tests and liver function tests from administrative healthcare (insurance claims and hospital billing data) and commercial laboratories, overall and by code type (e.g.
AIMS Public Health
September 2024
Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India.
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 PDFAdv Skin Wound Care
January 2025
Ling Jia Goh, MClin Res, MHA, Adv Dip (CCNC), BHS (Nursing), Dip (Nursing with Merit), is Nurse Manager (Research), Department of Nursing, National Healthcare Group Polyclinics, Singapore. Xiaoli Zhu, MN, RN, is Wound Care Senior Nurse Clinician, National Healthcare Group Polyclinics, and PhD candidate, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Background: Patient adherence to performing self-wound care (SWC) has a direct influence on the success of telewound care, a healthcare delivery mode that emerged in 2016 in National Healthcare Group Polyclinics in Singapore to relieve the healthcare burden. This mode of delivery was useful during the pandemic, when nonurgent face-to-face visits were switched to the use of telecommunications for consultation. Telewound care requires that patients be willing to perform wound care on their own; however, whether patients are willing to do so remains unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Orthop Trauma
January 2025
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.
Objectives: The 22-modifier in the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) system indicates increased surgical procedure complexity, aiming to secure greater reimbursement for surgeons. This study investigated the 22-modifier on reimbursement amounts after acetabular fracture fixation.
Methods: Design: Retrospective cohort study.
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