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- 1From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The purpose of this inaugural article is to show that open access journals provide a unique dissemination strategy that effectively meets the demands of health fcxservices research and applied...
- 2From: Health Services Insights. Peer-Reviewed
Perioperative evaluation of patients with pulmonary conditions undergoing non-cardiothoracic surgery
Supplementary Issue: Perioperative Medicine This review describes the perioperative management of patients with suspected or established pulmonary conditions undergoing non-cardiothoracic surgery, with a focus on... - 3From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedCurrently, in the United States there is a significant physician workforce shortage. This problem is likely to persist as there is no quick solution. The nature of this shortage is complex and involves factors such as...
- 4From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedThe field of medical geographic information systems (Medical GIS) has become extremely useful in understanding the bigger picture of public health. The discipline holds a substantial capacity to understand not only...
- 5From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedTobacco smoke is the leading cause of preventable premature death worldwide. While the majority of smokers would like to stop, the habitual and addictive nature of smoking makes cessation difficult. Clinical guidelines...
- 6From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedPurpose: To compare health related quality of life (HRQOL) and handicap of stroke survivors in Hong Kong (HK) and Chengdu (CD) in Mainland China. Method: Fifty-four pairs of first ever stroke patients in CD and in HK...
- 7From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedMedication errors affect the pediatric age group in all settings: outpatient, inpatient, emergency department, and at home. Children may be at special risk due to size and physiologic variability, limited communication...
- 8From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedA variety of new treatments for dementia are awaiting or undergoing randomized clinical trails. These trials focus on outcomes such as changes in cognitive function, physical function, or amyloid plaques. What is quite...
- 9From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) upholds policies prohibiting practices that deliberately hasten death. We find these policies overly restrictive and unreasonable. We argue that...
- 10From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: Optimal preoperative management of dialysis patients remains challenging. Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have higher mortality in the perioperative setting compared with non-ESRD patients....
- 11From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedBackground: Although, health status of Bangladeshis has improved, levels of child mortality in Bangladesh remain unacceptably high. This paper reviews household wealth inequalities in immunization coverage in...
- 12From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: Establishing the validity of health behavior surveys used in community-based participatory research (CBPR) in diverse populations is often overlooked. A novel, group-based cognitive interviewing method was...
- 13From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedCancer patients undergoing chemotherapy are particularly susceptible to drug-drug interactions (DDIs). Practitioners should keep themselves updated with the most current DDI information, particularly involving new...
- 14From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedThe treatment and management of low back pain is complex when there is no specific etiology such as cancer, fracture, or herniated disc. An organized approach to management that follows evidence based guidelines will...
- 15From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedSurveillance, Epidemiologic, and End Results (SEER) registry data abstracted from a priority 2 or higher reporting source from 2006 to 2008 were used to compare treatment patterns in 45-64-year old men diagnosed with...
- 16From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: This article presents cross-country comparisons of trends in for-profit nursing home chains in Canada, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States. Using public and private industry reports, the...
- 17From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedMany teaching hospitals employ a care team structure composed of a broad range of healthcare providers with different skill sets. Each member of this team has a distinct role and a different level of training ranging...
- 18From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedLittle is known about the efficiency of health care in correction settings. This article reports an efficiency analysis of health care in state correctional institutions (SCIs) in a single, mid-Atlantic state from 2003...
- 19From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Understanding the differences in care-seeking pattern is key in designing interventions aimed at improving health-care service delivery, including prevention and control of noncommunicable...
- 20From: Health Services Insights. Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: Lee first described the concept of preoperative assessment testing (PAT) clinic in 1949. An efficiently run clinic is associated with increased cost-effectiveness by lowering preoperative admission time and...