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Caregivers' willingness to pay for Alzheimer's disease medications in Taiwan.
J Chin Med Assoc
April 2021
Faculty of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) exerts significant financial expenses on caregivers, and knowledge of caregivers' support for out-of-pocket payment is of great importance for policymaking on the insurance coverage of future AD medication in Taiwan. We aimed to investigate caregivers' willingness to pay (WTP) for a hypothetical curative AD medication and the effect of different factors on the amount of WTP.
Methods: Informal caregivers of patients with AD and informants of patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) were included.
Endoscopic management of malignant gastric outlet obstruction.
J Chin Med Assoc
April 2021
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Malignant gastric outlet obstruction (MGOO) is a late complication of advanced malignancies, mostly occurring due to gastrointestinal cancers or external compression outside the lumen. It causes nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, weight loss, and decreased quality of life. In the past, surgical bypass was the gold standard for the management of MGOO.
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