University-based researchers in Manitoba, Canada, have used administrative data routinely collected as part of the national health insurance plan to design a population-based health information system (POPULIS). Decision-makers can use this system to make critical comparisons across regions of residents' health status, socioeconomic risk characteristics, and use of hospitals, nursing homes, and physicians. Policy makers have found this information system useful in providing answers to questions they are often asked: Which populations need more physician services? Which need fewer? Are high-risk populations poorly served or do they have poor health outcomes despite being well served? Does high utilization represent overuse or is it related to high need? Three commentaries follow.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Toward value-based care using cost mining: cost aggregation and visualization across the entire colorectal cancer patient pathway.
BMC Med Res Methodol
December 2024
Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Background: The aim of this study is to develop a method we call "cost mining" to unravel cost variation and identify cost drivers by modelling integrated patient pathways from primary care to the palliative care setting. This approach fills an urgent need to quantify financial strains on healthcare systems, particularly for colorectal cancer, which is the most expensive cancer in Australia, and the second most expensive cancer globally.
Methods: We developed and published a customized algorithm that dynamically estimates and visualizes the mean, minimum, and total costs of care at the patient level, by aggregating activity-based healthcare system costs (e.
Treatment and Survival Disparities in Asian Americans With Hepatocellular Carcinoma: The Need to Disaggregate a Diverse Cohort.
J Clin Gastroenterol
October 2024
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.
Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the leading causes of cancer death in the United States and globally. The Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) population has often been studied as one homogenous cohort despite its heterogeneity. We aim to understand differences in treatment modality and mortality among AANHPI patients with early-stage HCC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCurrently practising regulatory affairs pharmacists-were they ready to practice at the time of graduation - An exploratory cross-section study.
Curr Pharm Teach Learn
December 2024
Institute of Public Health, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan; Honorary Research Fellow-Department of Primary Care and Public Health-Faculty of Medicine-Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address:
Background: The licensing or authorisation of medicines is an essential legal and regulatory procedure that permits the commercial distribution and availability of medical products and devices. Regulatory affairs pharmacists play a major role in licensing and regulating pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that regulatory affairs pharmacists are sufficiently competent to practise.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPolicy evaluation of place-based strategies on upgrading county industrial structures amid economic structural transformation: Insights from pilot counties of China's returning entrepreneurs.
PLoS One
December 2024
School of Economics and Management, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China.
In the context of the transformation of urban-rural dual economic structure, one of the important ways to realize urban-rural integrated development is to carry out county industrial structure upgrading. Based on the policy of returning home to start business as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper empirically analyzes the relationship between returning home to start business and upgrading of county industrial structure. Selecting 1997 counties across the country from 2000 to 2021 as the research sample, a multi-temporal double-difference model is used to test the impact of the place-based policy on county industrial structure and the mechanism of the impact, and the result confirms that the implementation of the pilot policy of returning home entrepreneurship plays a positive and obvious role in promoting the level of industrial development of county-level areas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPerceived Worries in the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence Among Healthcare Professionals in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study.
Nurs Rep
November 2024
King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Ministry of Health, Tabuk 71411, Saudi Arabia.
The use of AI in the healthcare sector is facing some formidable concerns raised by the practitioners themselves. This study aimed to establish the concerns that surround the adoption of AI among Saudi Arabian healthcare professionals. Materials and methods: This was a cross-sectional study using stratified convenience sampling from September to November 2024 across health facilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!