Understanding the Changes to the Patient’s Bill of Rights as a Result of the Affordable Care Act by Deanna Andrews, Martie Gillen

“… The Affordable Care Act is a legislative act that has provided individuals and families more choices related to healthcare insurances. It offers consumers new protections and benefits by creating a more defined Patient’s Bill of Rights. …”
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Modern weapons and military equipment by Dragan M. Vučković

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Decrease in (Major) Amputations in Diabetics: A Secondary Data Analysis by AOK Rheinland/Hamburg by Melanie May, Sebastian Hahn, Claudia Tonn, Gerald Engels, Dirk Hochlenert

“…Data covering 2.9 million people insured by the largest insurance company between 2007 and 2013 was analysed by the use of log-linear Poisson regression adjusted for age, gender and region. …”
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Applying Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) to Fishing Vessels: An Analysis of Occupational Injuries on Korean Trap Boats by Su-Hyung Kim, Seung-Hyun Lee, Kyung-Jin Ryu, Yoo-Won Lee

“…Quantitative data were collected from insurance approval records, while qualitative data were obtained through surveys. …”
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Utilization of preventative health checkup services in China among middle-aged and older adult population: evidence from China’s 28 provinces by Jingyu Shen, Jingyu Shen, Weiji Fang, Weiji Fang, Yating Zhu, Yating Zhu, Chunli Ye, Chunli Ye, Yanhua Zhu, Yanhua Zhu, Yanling Tao, Yanling Tao

“…Utilization was significantly influenced by age, area of residence, education level, social insurance, health insurance, personal income, presence of chronic diseases, and life satisfaction. …”
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Factors Influencing Patient Decisions Regarding Treatments for Skin Growths: A Cross-Sectional Study by David G. Li, Fan Di Xia, Jasmine Rana, Grace J. Young, Forootan Alizadeh, Cara Joyce, Shinjita Das, Arash Mostaghimi

“…Patients without private insurance were more likely to cite efficacy and impact on productivity as being “important”. …”
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Global Stability of Almost Periodic Solution of a Class of Neutral-Type BAM Neural Networks by Tetie Pan, Bao Shi, Jian Yuan

“…By employing fixed-point theorem, the exponential dichotomy, and differential inequality techniques, we obtain some sufficient conditions to insure the existence and globally exponential stability of almost periodic solution. …”
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Prevalence of Self-Medication Practice and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women Who Attended Antenatal Care at Public Hospitals of North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia by Abrham Demis, Birhanetensay Masresha Altaye, Mulugeta Emiru, Mitiku Tefera

“…Therefore, preventive measures such as proper counseling during dispensing, awareness creation programs on preconception care, and enrolling in health insurance programs to minimize the practice of self-medication are necessary.…”
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Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: Part I—Real-World Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Associated Costs in Later Lines of Therapy in the United States by Ehab L. Atallah, Rodrigo Maegawa, Dominick Latremouille-Viau, Carmine Rossi, Annie Guérin, Eric Q. Wu, Pallavi Patwardhan

“…**Results:** Among 296 commercially insured patients with 3L+ (median age, 58.5 years; female, 49.7%), the median duration of first-line (1L), second-line (2L), and 3L therapy was 8.5, 4.2, and 8.3 months, respectively. …”
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Racial, socioeconomic, and payer status disparities in utilization of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty in the USA by Suraj A. Dhanjani, Jessica Schmerler, Nauman Hussain, Daniel Badin, Uma Srikumaran, Vishal Hegde, Julius K. Oni

“…Conclusions Black patients, lower-income patients, and Medicare-insured patients undergo UKA at a lower relative rate than white, higher-income, and privately insured patients, respectively. …”
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Birth Outcomes of Infants Born to Mothers with Alopecia Areata: A Nationwide Population-based Study in Korea by Jung-Won Shin, Taeuk Kang, Heather Swan, Kyungho Paik, Chang-Hun Huh, Hyun Jung Kim

“…A retrospective cohort study was conducted on 45,328 children born to mothers with AA and 4,703,253 controls born to mothers without AA using the Korean National Health Insurance Claims database from 2002 to 2016. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to evaluate the association between maternal AA and the birth outcomes of their children. …”
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Patterns and factors associated with healthcare utilisation in Cambodia: a cross-sectional study based on the World Health Survey Plus 2023 by Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Por Ir, Paul Kowal, Nawi Ng, Srean Chhim, Chhorvann Chhea, Chamnab Ngor, Sereyraksmey Long, Poppy Walton, Khin Thiri Maung, Grace Marie Ku, Heng Sopheab

“…Individuals with low socioeconomic status and those with insurance showed higher public healthcare utilisation for outpatient and inpatient services, with women more likely to use public outpatient care. …”
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Domestic Resource Mobilisation for Sustainable Healthcare Financing in Nigeria: A Review by Amina Idris Bello, Maryam Abimbola Jimoh, Abdul-Rasheed Olalekan Tijani, Hafsat Abolore Ameen

“…A total of 38 publications were reviewed revealing that mechanisms such as general tax revenue, social insurance systems and community-based health insurance are central to DRM efforts. …”
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Accelerated failure model with empirical analysis and application to colon cancer data: Testing and validation by John Abonongo, Anuwoje Ida L. Abonongo, Abdussalam Aljadani, Mahmoud M. Mansour, Haitham M. Yousof

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Characteristics of Self-Rated Oral Health among Syrian Refugee Parents in Ontario by Aseel Alzaghoul, Parmin Rahimpoor-Marnani, Khalid Yunis, Akm Alamgir, Baraa Alghalyini, Hala Tamim

“…To achieve better oral health outcomes among refugee populations, including Syrian refugees, efforts should be focused on improving dental care and dental insurance for vulnerable populations.…”
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Foreword by E Murer, P Niederer, B Radanov, A Rumo-Jungo, M Sturzenegger, F Walz

“…In recent years, whiplash has become a nightmare for doctors, lawyers, rehabilitation specialists, bioengineers and insurers, not only in Switzerland, but across the whole of western Europe, North America and Australia.…”
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ACTORS OF THE INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS OF THE EUROPEAN BANKING SECTOR IN RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS by Małgorzata Zaleska

“…The institutional changes are assessed in the paper, including the establishment of the European banking union, modifications in the EU deposit insurance systems and considerable strengthening of the role of central banks, with special focus on the European Central Bank. …”
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Insights into the Multidisciplinary Approach for Metastatic Acinic Cell Lung Carcinoma: The Pathologist’s Role in Romania Today by Dorela-Codruta Lazureanu, Amelia Burlea, Robert Barna, Daniela Cipu, Mihaela Pasca Fenesan, Ioan Icma, Marioara Cornianu

“…<b>Conclusions</b>: Postponements of the presentation to the doctor at the onset of symptoms, as well as a lack of periodic health control for people insured by national health insurance companies, often lead to medical, human and financial complications that are difficult to manage. …”
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Urban-Rural Disparity of Generics Prescription in Taiwan: The Example of Dihydropyridine Derivatives by Chia-Chen Hsu, Chia-Lin Chou, Shu-Chiung Chiang, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Li-Fang Chou, Yueh-Ching Chou

“…The aim of the current study was to investigate the urban-rural disparity of prescribing generics, which were usually cheaper than branded drugs, within the universal health insurance system in Taiwan. Data sources were the cohort datasets of National Health Insurance Research Database with claims data in 2010. …”
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POT-Based Estimation of the Renewal Function of Interoccurrence Times of Heavy-Tailed Risks by Abdelhakim Necir, Abdelaziz Rassoul, Djamel Meraghni

“…Making use of the peaks over threshold (POT) estimation method, we propose a semiparametric estimator for the renewal function of interoccurrence times of heavy-tailed insurance claims with infinite variance. We prove that the proposed estimator is consistent and asymptotically normal, and we carry out a simulation study to compare its finite-sample behavior with respect to the nonparametric one. …”
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