President's page: Access to cardiovascular care

Access to Care and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading killer of Americans. CVD is understudied among Latinos, who have high levels of CVD risk factors. This study aimed to determine whether access to health care (ie, insurance status and having a usual source of care) is associated with 4 CVD prevention factors (ie, health care utilization, CVD screening, information received from health care providers, ...

Access to specialist gastroenterology care in Canada: the Practice Audit in Gastroenterology (PAGE) Wait Times Program.

BACKGROUND Canadian wait time data are available for the treatment of cancer and heart disease, as well as for joint replacement, cataract surgery and diagnostic imaging procedures. Wait times for gastroenterology consultation and procedures have not been studied, although digestive diseases pose a greater economic burden in Canada than cancer or heart disease. METHODS Specialist physicians c...

Assessment inequality in access to public cardiovascular health services in Iran

Background: Timely access to cardiovascular health services is necessary to prevent heart damages. The present study examined inequality in geographical distribution of cardiovascular health services in Iran.   Methods: Present study is a cross-sectional study conducted using demographic data from all Iranian provinces (31 provinces) from 2012 census by the Statistics Center of Iran (SC...

Multi-society Presidents' page: The value of membership in your sub-specialty society.

Analysing Object Relationships to Predict Page Access for Prefetching

We present a new approach to predicting page accesses to facilitate prefetching persistent objects in a client/server computing environment. The relationships between persistent objects are modelled by a discrete-time Markov Chain, which allowed us to use a method called hitting times to compute the page access probability and the mean time to access a page. If the probability of a page is high...