Multiple sociodemographic factors affect cancer care patterns, including age, sex, race or ethnicity, insurance status, household income, level of education, and usual source of health care1–9. Timeliness of care (that is, rapid initiation of treatment after definitive diagnosis) is a key component of high-quality cancer treatment. For many types of cancer, timely treatment after diagnosis can ...

This paper extends the canonical single-period model of voluntary costly disclosure to a dynamic setting with asymmetric information over disclosure costs. I show that dynamic incentives have an ambiguous effect on firms’ disclosure decision and that the cost of disclosure no longer prevents full disclosure by all firms. My main results show that (1) there is a positive inter-temporal connectio...

To assess the value of ICD-9 coded chief complaints for early detection of epidemics, we measured sensitivity, positive predictive value, and timeliness of Influenza detection using a respiratory set (RS) of ICD-9 codes and an Influenza set (IS). We also measured inherent timeliness of these data using the cross-correlation function. We found that, for a one-year period, the detectors had sensi...

This position paper makes the case for incorporating time/utility functions (TUFs) and the paradigm of utility accrual real-time scheduling in the planned, updated version of the UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance, and Time. The case is made by arguing that the key underpinning of the current state-of-the real-time practice — the priority artifact — and that of the current state-of-the...

BACKGROUND This study aims to evaluate the length of time elapsed between reports of the same incidents related to avian flu and H1N1 outbreaks published by the WHO and ProMED-mail, the two major global health surveillance systems, before and after the amendment of the International Health Regulations in 2005 (IHR 2005) and to explore the association between country transparency and this timeli...

Disclosure of HIV status has been the focus of three decades of research, which have revealed its complex relations to many behaviors involved in HIV prevention and treatment, and exposed its central role in managing the HIV epidemic. The causes and consequences of disclosure acts have recently been the subject of several theoretical models. Although it is acknowledged that individual disclosur...