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Patient access schemes in Asia-pacific markets: current experience and future potential
(BioMed Central, 2015)Objectives: Patient access (or risk-sharing) schemes are alternative market access agreements between healthcare payers and medical product manufacturers for conditional coverage of promising health technologies. This study ... -
Patient Activity and Survival Following Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Implantation: The ALTITUDE Activity Study
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015)Background: Physical activity data are collected automatically by implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). Though these data potentially provide a quantifiable and easily accessible measure of functional status, its ... -
Patient and Healthcare Provider Characteristics Associated with Obtaining Abdominal CT scans to Evaluate Diarrhea in United States Emergency Departments (NHAMCS-ED 2016-2018)
(2022-05-10)Abstract Background: Adults with diarrhea are frequently evaluated in emergency departments (EDs) in the United States (US). Abdominal/pelvic CT can be helpful in the exploration of intra-abdominal pathologies that require ... -
Patient and Practitioner Influences on the Placebo Effect in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2009)Objective: To determine whether placebo responses can be explained by characteristics of the patient, the practitioner, or their interpersonal interaction. Methods: We performed an analysis of videotape and psychometric ... -
Patient Comorbidities Increase Postoperative Resource Utilization After Laparoscopic and Open Cholecystectomy
(2016-05-17)BACKGROUND: An understanding of the relationship between patient factors and healthcare resource utilization represents a major point of interest for optimizing clinical care and overall net savings, yet maintaining financial ... -
Patient Disease Perceptions and Coping Strategies for Arthritis in a Developing Nation: A Qualitative Study
(Springer Nature, 2011)Background: There is little prior research on the burden of arthritis in the developing world. We sought to document how patients with advanced arthritis living in the Dominican Republic are affected by and cope with their ... -
Patient Outcomes and Predictors of Success After Revision Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
(SAGE Publications, 2015)Background: Patient outcomes and predictors of success after revision anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction are currently limited in the literature. Existing studies either have a small study size or are difficult ... -
Patient Perception of Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery in an Endoscopy Screening Program in Korea
(Yonsei University College of Medicine, 2012)Purpose Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is a new method of accessing intracavitary organs in order to minimize pain by avoiding incisions in the body wall. The aim of this study is to determine ... -
Patient Perceptions of a Personal Health Record: A Test of the Diffusion of Innovation Model
(JMIR Publications Inc., 2012-11-05)Background: Personal health records (PHRs) have emerged as an important tool with which patients can electronically communicate with their doctors and doctor’s offices. However, there is a lack of theoretical and empirical ... -
Patient race and the likelihood of undergoing bariatric surgery among patients seeking surgery
(Springer Nature, 2014)Background Ethnic minority adults have disproportionately higher rates of obesity than Caucasians but are less likely to undergo bariatric surgery. Recent data suggest that minorities might be less likely to seek surgery. ... -
Patient Reported Differences in Dry Eye Disease between Men and Women: Impact, Management, and Patient Satisfaction
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Purpose Dry eye disease affects women twice as often as men, but there is little information on whether dry eye treatments, treatment satisfaction, or the impact of dry eye disease on patients’ lives and vision might differ ... -
Patient Satisfaction and Surgeon Experience: A Follow-Up to the Reduction Mammaplasty Learning Curve Study
(Open Science Company, LLC, 2012)Background: While it is known that increasing surgeon experience is correlated with improved efficiency and safety in the reduction mammaplasty procedure, it is unclear whether these improvements lead to an erosion in ... -
Patient satisfaction and wait times following outpatient manual vacuum aspiration compared to electric vacuum aspiration in the operating room: a cross-sectional study
(Springer Nature, 2017)Background Outpatient manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) is a safe and equally effective alternative to electric vacuum aspiration (EVA) in the operating room. This project was conducted to determine whether outpatient MVA ... -
Patient self-appraisal of change and minimal clinically important difference on the European organization for the research and treatment of cancer quality of life questionnaire core 30 before and during cancer therapy
(BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Clinical interpretation of health related quality of life (HRQOL) scores is challenging. The purpose of this analysis was to interpret score changes and identify minimal clinically important differences (MCID) ... -
Patient Smartphone Ownership and Interest in Mobile Apps to Monitor Symptoms of Mental Health Conditions: A Survey in Four Geographically Distinct Psychiatric Clinics
(JMIR Publications Inc., 2014)Background: Despite growing interest in mobile mental health and utilization of smartphone technology to monitor psychiatric symptoms, there remains a lack of knowledge both regarding patient ownership of smartphones and ... -
Patient Specific Ankle-foot Orthoses Using Rapid Prototyping
(BioMed Central, 2011)Background: Prefabricated orthotic devices are currently designed to fit a range of patients and therefore they do not provide individualized comfort and function. Custom-fit orthoses are superior to prefabricated orthotic ... -
PATIENT SURVIVAL WITH ypT0N+ FOLLOWING NEOADJUVANT THERAPY IN GASTRIC AND RECTAL CANCERS
(2021-06-23)Background Survival outcomes of gastric and rectal cancer patients who developed ypT0N+ remain poorly characterized. Methods A survival analysis of the NCDB was conducted on patients with gastric or rectal adenocarcinoma ... -
Patient- and Population-Level Health Consequences of Discontinuing Antiretroviral Therapy in Settings with Inadequate HIV Treatment Availability
(BioMed Central, 2012)Background: In resource-limited settings, HIV budgets are flattening or decreasing. A policy of discontinuing antiretroviral therapy (ART) after HIV treatment failure was modeled to highlight trade-offs among competing ... -
Patient- and surgeon-adjusted control charts for monitoring performance
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2014)Objectives: To determine whether an innovative graphical tool for accurate measurement of individual surgeon performance metrics, adjusted for both surgeon-specific and patient-specific factors, significantly alters ... -
Patient-Based Outcomes After Tibia Fracture in Children and Adolescents
(Bentham Open, 2014)Introduction : Tibia fractures are common in pediatric patients and time necessary to return to normal function may be underappreciated. The purpose of this study was to assess functional recovery in pediatric patients who ...