BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus places a considerable burden on patients in terms of morbidity and mortality and on society in terms of costs. Costs related to diabetes are expected to increase due to increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes. The aim of this study was to estimate the health care costs attributable to type 1 and type 2 diabetes in Norway in 2005. METHODS Data on inpatient hospita...

Evolutionarily stable strategy models suggest that biparental care will be stable when parents partially compensate for changes in care by the other parent Previous work has emphasized the relationship between parental expenditure and the current component of fitness (e.g., offspring survival and fecundity) in causing partial compensation. This study shows that partial compensation depends crit...

CONTEXT The extent to which better spending produces higher-quality care and better patient outcomes in a universal health care system with selective access to medical technology is unknown. OBJECTIVE To assess whether acute care patients admitted to higher-spending hospitals have lower mortality and readmissions. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS The study population comprised adults (>18 year...

Within the overall National Health Insurance (NHI) budget in Taiwan, there has been a remarkable increase in expenditure for cancer patients. This study was designed to explore whether hematological malignancy is associated with higher end-of-life (EOL) medical expenditure in their last 6 months of life. We used data from the Taiwan NHI Research Database to do a retrospective cohort and populat...

background: training methods that enhance nurses' learning and retention will increase the quality of patient care. this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of electronic learning and educational booklet on the nurses' retention of diabetes updates.   methods: in this controlled trial study, convenience sampling was used to select 123 nurses from the endocrinology and internal medicine war...

background: training methods that enhance nurses’ learning and retention will increase the quality of patient care. this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of electronic learning and educational booklet on the nurses’ retention of diabetes updates.   methods: in this controlled trial study, convenience sampling was used to select 123 nurses from the endocrinology and internal medicine war...

medical tourism is one of the subdirectories of tourism in order to receive health care in other countries. it has become a major industry in the global arena. according to the great potential of this industry in iran, is essential to paying more attention to this branch of tourism, economic effect and also the effect of economic indicators on tourism industry. therefore, this paper examines th...

background: the former studies and observations indicate that medical students vary considerably in their attitudes towards patients and health care personal. objectives: to study the attitude of clerkship students towards selected types of patient and selected types of health care personnel. methods: a quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted among clerkship students.the subjects recei...

introduction: health information plays a vital role in managers' decision making and planning. health information in the form of medical records is also useful for caregivers, quality assessment, financial payments, legal measures, education, research and planning. in this study, to examine the managers and personnel's viewpoints about the application of medical records. methods and material: i...

OBJECTIVES To assess the economic impact of excess medical and informal care and the health utility loss associated with visual impairment and blindness in adults aged 40 years and older in the United States. METHODS Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data from 1996 to 2002 were pooled to estimate the relationship of visual impairment and blindness with total medical expenditures, components of...