INTRODUCTION Atrial fibrillation (AF) increases the risk of ischemic stroke 5-fold and may not only be responsible for as many as 15% of all strokes that occur but also for larger and more disabling strokes than those attributable to other causes which increase the associated costs of care. Anticoagulation with warfarin in the target INR of 2.5 is a major clinical challenge in real-life practic...

OBJECTIVES To present the implications of agency theory in microeconomics, augmented by behavioral economics, for different methods of value-based payment in health care; and to derive a set of future research questions and policy recommendations based on that conceptual analysis. DATA SOURCES Original literature of agency theory, and secondarily behavioral economics, combined with applied re...

BACKGROUND This paper combines the literature on public health, on economics of health and on economics of technological innovation to discuss the peculiarities of labour in the health care sector. METHOD AND FRAMEWORK: The starting point is the investigation of the economic peculiarities of medical care. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS This investigation leads to the identification of the prevalence...

The National Health Service (NHS) of the United Kingdomwas created by anAct of 1946, based on the recommendations of Sir William Beveridge’s report (1). Seldomhas any report to a government been so influential. The NHS is the pioneer of universal, publicly financed health insurance, and could probably be credited with much of the improvement in the health of the British population since its cre...

background: according to the important role of health care apprentice program on medical students’ performance, especially in relation with social accountability of medical education, it is attempted to assess efficacy of health care apprentice program on the level of medical students’ knowledge and skills in the context of primary health care at babol university of medial sciences    methods: ...

Efforts to reduce health care-associated infections (HAIs) have grown in both scale and sophistication over the past few decades; however, the increasing threat of antimicrobial resistance and the impact of new legislation regarding HAIs on health care economics make the fight against them all the more urgent. On-demand polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology has proven to be a highly effect...

This report summarizes a roundtable discussion of managed care experts and academic pharmacoeconomists, held in March 2008 with the objective of defining action steps to overcome barriers to the incorporation of real-world data into health care decision making. The roundtable meeting was the result of an initial program in July 2007 where managed care decision makers and pharmacoeconomic expert...

objective: this study aims at conducting a systematic review of the researches performed to determine case finding rates throughout the integration of mental health services into phc over recent twenty years . method : through electronic search, major national and international databases including pubmed, psychinfo, and embase were investigated. all original studies and researches in persian or...