Abhijit Trailokya1* and Amit Bahulayan2 1Chief Medical Advisor, Medical Services Division, Abbott Healthcare Private Limited, Mumbai, India 2MSL, Medical Department, Abbott Healthcare Private Limited, Mumbai, India *Corresponding author: Abhijit Trailokya, MBBS, Geriatric Medicine, Pharmaceutical Medicine, Chief Manager, Medical Advisor, Medical Services Division, Abbott Healthcare Private Limi...

Purpose. The long-term outcomes of patients after discharge from tertiary ICUs as they relate to the public versus private healthcare systems in Brazil have not yet been evaluated. Materials and Methods. A multicenter prospective cohort study was conducted to compare the all-cause mortality and the physical functional status (PFS) 24 months after discharge from the ICU between adult patients tr...

BACKGROUND The age of diagnosis of congenital hearing loss is one of the most important determinants of communication outcome. A previous study by the lead author had evaluated the performance of the public health services in Bloemfontein, South Africa (SA), in this regard. This study aimed to examine whether the private health services in the same city were any better. OBJECTIVE To determine...

Background and objectives: Services quality has become the major concern of policy-makers in the present rapidly growing consumer-oriented health industry. However, there is a major gap in the relevant literature in Malaysia in this particular field. Thus, this research attempted to narrow this gap by conducting a qualitative study to gain insight into quality of healthcare services in the Mala...

Medicare is a popular program in Canada that offers universal access to medically-necessary healthcare services for all Canadians through a public insurance plan in each province. In spite of its popularity, healthcare privatization has been debated, often over concerns about wait times for healthcare services. A case report focused on the 2005 Supreme Court's response to the "Chaoulli v. Quebe...

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE At the conclusion of this presentation, the participants should be able to identify the principles behind the Neuromonics™ Tinnitus Treatment (NTT) and understand its strengths and potential shortfalls. OBJECTIVES To describe the preliminary experience and efficacy of the NTT in an independent, non-industry sponsored private otology practice clinical study. STUDY DESIG...

BACKGROUND Malaria case management remains a vital component of malaria control strategies. Despite the introduction of national malaria treatment guidelines and scale-up of malaria control interventions in Nigeria, anecdotal evidence shows some deviations from the guidelines in malaria case management. This study assessed factors influencing adherence to malaria diagnosis and treatment guideli...

there is a growing global market in healthcare and patients. and while there is a small body of evidence emerging around this phenomenon commonly known as medical tourism there remain significant unanswered policy and research questions which need to be addressed. we outline some of the key issues set against the six key disciplinary preoccupations of the journal: epidemiology, health economics...

South-East Asian Regional (SEAR) countries range from low- to middle-income countries and have considerable differences in mix of public and private sector expenditure on health. This study intends to estimate the income-elasticities of healthcare expenditure in public and private sectors separately for investigating whether healthcare is a 'necessity' or 'luxury' for citizens of these countrie...