Role Modeling and Regional Health Care Intensity

Regional variations in health care intensity and physician perceptions of quality of care.

BACKGROUND Research has documented dramatic differences in health care utilization and spending across U.S. regions with similar levels of patient illness. Although patient outcomes and quality of care have been found to be no better in regions of high health care intensity, it is unknown whether physicians in these regions feel more capable of providing good patient care than those in low-inte...

Outlook for Regional Health Care

Regional health care is an expression that is currently used without any incongruity; however, its meaning differs according to the person who uses it and it can signify anything from simply regional health care to a complete health care system in a particular region supported by clinics and hospitals. The health care system is approaching a major turning point and a renewed reconsideration of ...

Regional appearance modeling based on the clustering of intensity profiles

Model-based image segmentation is a popular approach for the segmentation of anatomical structures from medical images because it includes prior knowledge about the shape and appearance of structures of interest. This paper focuses on the formulation of a novel appearance prior that can cope with large variability between subjects, for instance due to the presence of pathologies. Instead of rel...

Health Care Analysis And Regional Disparities In Different Provinces Of Iran

Problems and Promises of Health Technologies: The Role of Early Health Economic Modeling

Background To assess whether early health economic modeling helps to distinguish those healthcare innovations that are potentially cost-effective from those that are not potentially cost-effective. We will also study what information is retrieved from the health economic models to inform further development, research and implementation decisions.   Methods We performed s...