Acute kidney injury in hospitalized children in 20 hospitals of China’s Hunan Province: a cross-sectional survey by Qianliang Sun, Ying Pan, Zhihui Li

“…AKI prolongs hospital stays, increases hospitalization costs, and increases the risk of mortality in children.…”
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Risk factors precipitating exacerbations in adult asthma patients presenting at Kalafong Hospital, Pretoria by Maria M. Geyser, Paul Rheeder

“…Asthma is reported as taking up 1 to 2% of the total health budget in direct costs, with equally large indirect costs being incurred for time lost from work and reduced productivity. …”
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Stakeholders and Contextual Factors in the Implementation of Assistive Robotic Arms for Persons With Tetraplegia: Deductive Content Analysis of Focus Group Interviews by Vera Fosbrooke, Marco Riguzzi, Anja M Raab

“…ConclusionsRobotic arms offer promising benefits in terms of improved participation for users, while high costs and regulatory complexities as to who will assume these costs limit their implementation. …”
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Clinical and Economic Efficiency of Vaccination in a Pneumococcal 13-Valent Conjugate Vaccine in Patients with Chronic Bronchitis at a Young Age by G. L. Ignatova, I. A. Zakharova, V. N. Antonov

“…The high prevalence of chronic bronchitis (CB) among young people, and significant pharmaco-economic costs of health care for treatment of this disease actualizes the search for new solutions for the prevention of exacerbations. …”
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Improving the efficiency of the medicine provision system for patients with malignant neoplasms by Yu. A. Agafonova, D. V. Fedyaev, A. V. Snegovoy, V. V. Omelyanovskiy

“…At the same time, financial support from the government provides great costs on cancer drugs. However, these great costs are not rational.Objective: to assess the financing needs of the complete transfer of financial support of medical care in the field of oncology to the Compulsory Health Insurance (CHI) system by means of optimizing the functions of the day hospital.Material and methods. …”
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APPROACHES TO REIMBURSEMENT FOR MEDICAL CARE WITHIN ANESTHESIOLOGY AND INTENSIVE CARE PROFILE DURING TRANSFER TO A NEW SYSTEM OF HEALTH CARE FUNDING by Yu. S. Polushin, V. V. Stozharov, I. V. Shlyk, L. V. Butina, A. V. Tkachenko

“…The coefficients reflecting the content of costs were calculated for the identified subgroups. …”
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New Insights into Sprout Production from Melon (<i>Cucumis melo</i> L. var. <i>reticulatus</i>) Seeds as By-Product of Fruit Processing by Angelica Galieni, Beatrice Falcinelli, Fabio Stagnari, Eleonora Oliva, Federico Fanti, Maria Chiara Lorenzetti, Paolo Benincasa

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Differential Characteristics and Outcomes of Urgent/Emergent Versus Elective Aortic Valve Replacement by Joseph E. Ebinger, Aakriti Gupta, Tzu Yu Huang, Marcella A. Kelley, Christin Thompson, Maria Platanis, Susan Cheng

“…We used multivariable regression to identify factors associated with nonelective AVRs; we also examined the association of nonelective AVRs with clinical outcomes and health care costs. Results In total, 15 305 patients (16% urgent/emergent) underwent AVR during the study period. …”
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The effectiveness of Evodia rutaecarpa hot compress on the recovery of gastrointestinal function after laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer: A propensity score-matched retros... by Miaoxin Huang, Junmiao Li, Wei Huang, Yuling Zhou, Lei Cai, Ming Liu

“…However, except for hospital costs, the means and standard deviations of the other indicators were generally lower in the ER group. …”
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Performance characteristics of the Cepheid Xpert MTB/RIF test in a tuberculosis prevalence survey. by Susan E Dorman, Violet N Chihota, James J Lewis, Maunank Shah, David Clark, Alison D Grant, Gavin J Churchyard, Katherine L Fielding

“…For the testing scenario of 7000 specimens with 2.7% of specimens culture positive for MTB, costs were $165,690 for Xpert and $115,360 for the package of microscopy plus culture.…”
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DISASTER-RESILIENT HOSPITALS: THE NOAH'S ARK by Geetha Mani, Raja Danasekaran, Kalaivani Annadurai

“…The indirect and long-term costs of damage to health sector are greater than direct and immediate costs, compounding the disastrous consequences on the economy. …”
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The Fiscal History of Boyacá, 1863-1886: Liberal Dreams and Limited Resources by Joshua Rosenthal

“…Behind such ambitious and costly schemes were promises of financial support from the Federal Government, though it is not clear how often these promises were kept. …”
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An enhanced genetic-based multi-objective mathematical model for industrial supply chain network. by Yanchun Li

“…The multi-objective supply chain needs a full look at enterprise costs, coordinated delivery of different products, and more fluidity and efficiency within the network of the supply chain. …”
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Signalling strategies and opportunistic behaviour: Insights from dark-net markets. by Filippo Andrei, Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri

“…The study provides empirical support for signalling theory, by showing that costly signals are more difficult to fake or manipulate and can reduce fraud. …”
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Punishment and waste by Else Marie Knudsen

“…Families’ experiences of the limited options, poor quality, and high costs of food echo those of the prisoners living in the institution. …”
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Why collective behaviours self-organize to criticality: a primer on information-theoretic and thermodynamic utility measures by Qianyang Chen, Mikhail Prokopenko

“…In particular, we highlight that thermodynamic efficiency—measuring the ratio of predictability gained by the system to its energy costs—reaches its maximum at the critical regime. …”
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REENCUENTROS EN MARRUECOS DE LOS INMIGRADOS MARROQUÍES EN ANDALUCÍA by Alberto Capote

“…La inmigración marroquí en España, y en concreto en Andalucía, presenta una característica específica en relación con la que reside en otros países: la distancia, la rapidez y el coste juegan a favor de los marroquíes que viven en España a la hora de realizar las visitas a Marruecos. …”
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Cooperation is not rewarded by friendship, but generous and selfish students repel each other in social networks. by Flóra Samu, Simone Piras, Simone Righi, Marco Setti, Károly Takács

“…Humans cooperate across various contexts, despite the individual costs involved. Cooperation and prosocial behavior may persist because these costs are offset by reputation and other social benefits. …”
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Recycling Model Suggestion for Sustainable Urban Green Areas in Konya by Filiz Çelik

“…For this purpose, a model for composting and replacing fertilizer from organic wastes emerged in green areas of Konya was proposed. Thus, the costs of green areas with very high design, implementation and maintenance expenses will be reduced and they will be sustainable within themselves. …”
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EL ABASTECIMIENTO DE SEVILLA Y SU ZONA DE INFLUENCIA: INERCIAS DE LA POLÍTICA DE OFERTA Y DEBILIDADES DE LA GESTIÓN DE LA DEMANDA by Leandro del Moral Ituarte

“…Al final, se avanzan las condiciones que, en opinión de autor, un programa de gestión de la demanda, basado en la planificación al mínimo coste, habría de cumplir.…”
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