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Overlooked Intentions Are To Unintended Consequences As Unnecessary Care Is To Caregiver Shortage
My opinion: Just like naïve “Wildhood” [1] akin to adolescence as described in “Behave” [2], the developing nations are naïvely expanding and emulating healthcare coverage on the lines of developed nations like the United States (U.S.) and their Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. But they may have to be ready for ..
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Pentagonization of Healthcare
My opinion: Healthcare used to be about physician-patient relationship. But then healthcare grew. Whether it grew because physicians might have wanted more or because patients might have needed more is another chicken or egg dilemma or paradox. Anyhow healthcare grew. With its growth came the conundrum how to manage it from going ..
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Can Adverse Correctional Experiences Lead To Third Victim Syndrome?
My opinion: We talk about the first victim and the second victim syndrome [1-5]. However, we must also look into the third victim. The third victim may be fictional entities like corporations, towns, communities, societies and nations. However, much before the final step taken by these fictional entities to dissolve themselves und..
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Health Care Infinity: Prohibit Regulate Normalize
My opinion: Humanity should look much further beyond short-term vision for Health Care 2030 [1] because existential questions are so many and answers to them are so few, if any, when some do everything and some do nothing while few, if any, relish the endgame to exist in matrix. What have been the primary gains to the humanity du..
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"It's poverty, Covid"
My opinion: In 1990s, James Carville said that it is all about economy whichever way one looks at it [1]. Essentially, economy has evolved as a guise for food energy because food energy for individual’s survival requires individual’s society’s economic growth. Now the question arises whether food energy availability is modif..
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The Impact Of Depression And Opioid-antidepressant-anxiolytic Use On Length Of Stay And Hospital Cost Of Spine Surgery
Abstract: Background: The purpose of this study is to investigate the economic impact of opioid-antidepressant-anxiolytic use in spine surgery patients.Methods: The charts of 816 spine surgery inpatients of the Medical Center of Central Georgia were retrospectively reviewed and data on preoperative use of opioids, antidepressant..
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The Role of Patient Involvement in Practice Based Commissioning within the UK's National Health Service
Abstract: Over the past decade there has been mounting debate about the desirability of public and patient involvement in the commissioning of health services in the UK. This issue has arisen partially due to the National Health Service management moving from a system control by health practitioners to that of a devolved manager..
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A Three-Step Strategy To Approach The Public Benefit Basket In The Health-Care Systems Of Industrialized Nations
Abstract: In all health-care systems of industrialized nations it is difficult to describe the appropriate volume of services to be provided to all members of society. In our article, we propose a three-step strategy to facilitate decision making about this volume. This concept is based on the distinction between health-care ser..
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Cost-effectiveness Evaluation Of Therapy With Naratriptan And Rizatriptan For Migraine In Spain
Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate the cost-effectiveness of naratriptan and rizatriptan therapy for migraine attacks. Methods: cost-effectiveness analysis from the healthcare financer perspective in Spain, using a model based on a decision tree, which incorporates the direct healthcare costs and the probabili..
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Health Inequities and Investing in the Early Life Years: Lessons to reach to Poor and Vulnerable in Nepal
Abstract : It has clearly been proven in various studies that the poor suffer more than the rich in the matters of mortality, fertility, malnutrition, and morbidity, but it is the size of the gap between the rich and poor, which has caught the attention of policy makers and development agencies. Every year more than half a millio..
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