Background Patients with diabetes often seek treatment and have follow-up as outpatients, be it at private or government health facilities. Data on economic burden of outpatient care are limited. Moreover, comparisons of costs for different outpatient settings are rarely done. The objective of this study was to compare the outpatient care costs for diabetes between primary and tertiary care lev...

background this paper aims to investigate the development trend of traditional chinese medicine (tcm) hospitals in china and explore their medical service innovations, with special reference to the changing co-existence with western medicine (wm) at tcm hospitals.   methods quantitative data at macro level was collected from official databases of china health statistical yearbook and extracts o...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of multidisciplinary team care programs in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS Data were obtained by a Medline and a manual search of the literature through January 1997. Both the design and analysis aspects of controlled trials were evaluated. RESULTS Forty-two papers reporting on 35 clinical trials of multidisciplinary team care were initially identified. F...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate evidence of the effectiveness of computer-generated health behavior interventions-clinical encounters "in absentia"-as extensions of face-to-face patient care in an ambulatory setting. DATA SOURCES Systematic electronic database and manual searches of multiple sources (1996-1999) plus search for gray literature were conducted to identify clinical trials using computer-ge...

An exploratory survey design was used to assess satisfaction with antenatal care over a two-month period of women giving birth in an inner Sydney teaching hospital. Patients received obstetric services from private obstetricians, midwives, the hospital outpatient clinic, or 'shared care' between general practitioners and the outpatient clinic or birth centre. Insurance status and demographic in...

BACKGROUND Specialist outreach clinics in general practice, in which hospital-based specialists hold outpatient clinics in general practitioners' (GPs) surgeries, are one example of a shift in services from secondary to primary care. AIM To describe specialist outreach clinics held in fundholding general practices in two specialties from the perspective of patients, GPs, and consultants, and ...

background: with the increased range of medical insurance coverage in china, the proportion of medical expenditure shouldered by individuals is declining. the problem is the rapidly growing scale of medical expenditures challenges the sustainability of medical insurance funds. methods: this study used the heckman selection model, survival analysis, and ordered probit model to evaluate the effec...

highly effective in developing and improving the quality of the provided services .so, the present study aims to compare the satisfaction of the patients suffering from anal fissure from inpatient and outpatient treatments. method: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 212 subjects who were selected through systematic sampling from the patients with anal fissure referring to motahari clin...

Background This paper aims to investigate the development trend of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hospitals in China and explore their medical service innovations, with special reference to the changing co-existence with western medicine (WM) at TCM hospitals.   Methods Quantitative data at macro level was collected from official databases of China Health Statistical Yearbook and Extracts o...

BACKGROUND Demands are increasingly being made for clinical trialists to actively share individual participant data (IPD) collected from clinical trials using responsible methods that protect the confidentiality and privacy of clinical trial participants. Clinical trialists, particularly those receiving public funding, are often concerned about the additional time and money that data-sharing ac...