Supporting Chronic Pain Management across Provincial and Territorial Health Systems in Canada: Findings from Two Stakeholder Dialogues by Michael G Wilson, John N Lavis, Moriah E Ellen

“…BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is a serious health problem given its prevalence, associated disability, impact on quality of life and the costs associated with the extensive use of health care services by individuals living with it.…”
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Impact analysis of expanded access to ketamine for treatment-resistant depression by Thanh Lu, Sophia D’Angelo, Zohra Tayebali, Matthew Dempsey, Kristen Giombi, Olga Khavjou

“…Health states included response of depression in the acute treatment phase and continued treatment and relapse in the maintenance phase. The model estimated costs associated with healthcare utilization (direct costs) and time loss (indirect costs) from patient, caregiver, payer and societal perspectives. …”

Living with elephants: A case study from Kavango‐Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area in Zimbabwe by Muhammad Faizan Usman, Martin Reinhardt Nielsen, Sébastien Le Bel, Maxwell Phiri, Patrice Grimaud

“…Distance to these features was found to mediate tolerance through its effects on tangible costs, intangible benefits and mitigation efforts. …”
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Optimizing Cold Food Supply Chains for Enhanced Food Availability Under Climate Variability by David Hernandez-Cuellar, Krystel K. Castillo-Villar, Fernando Rey Castillo-Villar

“…Simulation results show that scenarios characterized by increased rainfall during growing seasons result in increased yields, allowing distributors to reduce transportation costs by sourcing from nearby farms. Conversely, scenarios with reduced rainfall and lower yields require sourcing from more distant locations, thereby increasing transportation costs. …”
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Twenty-five year trend in antipsychotic medication prescribing in England: challenges and opportunities by Hannah Newman, David Branford, Richard Laugharne, Richard Byng, Rohit Shankar

“…Aims To examine the change in the number of community prescriptions and corresponding costs for antipsychotics per head of population over 25 years (1998–2022) in England. …”
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Retrospective evaluation of implementation of caring contacts for youth suicide prevention in an emergency department by Sabrina Schalley, Kristi M. Goldenstein, Trisha Graeve, Zebulon Timmons, Nadia Elshami, Rinad S. Beidas, Jennifer A. Hoffmann

“…Conclusion In a children's hospital ED, Caring Contacts were feasible to implement with low costs and high fidelity to the intended schedule and card writer. …”
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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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Epidemiological and economic model to estimate the optimal edge width of citrus block to be weekly sprayed with insecticide for huanglongbing management by Isabela Vescove Primiano, Eduardo Cassettari Monteferrante, Leonardo Ferreira, Andreia Cristina de Oliveira Adami, Sílvia Helena Galvão de Miranda, Franklin Behlau, Renato Beozzo Bassanezi

“…This indicates that while costs and yields can alter the NPV, they do not alter the optimal EWSW.…”
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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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The use of computer‐aided design and manufacture for foot orthoses: A cross‐sectional study of orthotic services in the UK by Laura Barr, Jim Richards, Graham J. Chapman

“…Further research is required to understand how hybrid‐digital and fully‐digital workflow affect patient treatment outcomes, costs and sustainability. Barriers to CAD/CAM including costs and staff training which should be considered alongside the growing body of research around CAD/CAM technologies.…”
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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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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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The Burden of Hospitalization and Rehospitalization Among Patients Hospitalized with Severe Community-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia in the United States, 2018–2022 by Marya D. Zilberberg, Mike Greenberg, Valentin Curt, Andrew F. Shorr

“…The mean (SD) hospital length of stay (LOS) and costs were 13.6 (12.1) and USD 91,965 (USD 133,734), respectively. …”
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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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