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J Eval Clin Pract
February 2025
College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Aims And Objectives: Approximately 50% of Americans report having low health insurance literacy, leading to uncertainty when choosing their insurance coverage to best meet their healthcare needs. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the association between lack of prescription drug benefit knowledge and problems paying medical bills among Medicare beneficiaries.
Methods: We analysed the 2021 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Public Use File of 5586 Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥ 65 years.
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Muscle Nerve
December 2024
Beth Israel Deaconess/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Introduction/aims: Claims-based analyses have demonstrated high medical costs associated with myasthenia gravis (MG). We examined the economic burden of MG from the perspective of affected people and their families.
Methods: The Muscular Dystrophy Association developed and conducted an online survey of people with MG and their caregivers between October 26 and December 6, 2021.
Difficulty in financing fracture care in south-western Nigeria: a prospective cohort study of predictors and recommendations for improvement.
BMC Public Health
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Bowen University Teaching Hospital, P. O. Box 15, Ogbomoso, Oyo, Nigeria.
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Rev Fac Cien Med Univ Nac Cordoba
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Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
As Drumond Rennie put it, ‘Science does not come alive until it is shared publicly’ (1998), emphasising that the rapid advancement of scientific research requires its efficient and rigorous dissemination both to encourage the development of new strategies and to avoid duplication of effort and resources. The current model of scientific and technological research is facing a significant challenge: the cost associated with publishing its results. It is now increasingly common for publishers to impose fees on the scientific community to publish their results, generating debate about the impact of this practice on the fairness of scientific dissemination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFrom affordable to accessible: How the pharmaceutical industry transformed patient consumers into charity recipients.
Soc Sci Med
December 2024
Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech, USA. Electronic address:
Recent changes in healthcare pricing and financing have resulted in patients paying more out of pocket for their healthcare. As a result, more patients with insurance are being priced out of essential or desired medications. Pharmaceutical companies have responded by offering financial assistance programs for patients.
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