[PDF] Top 20 The Relationship between Surgeon Volume and Hospitalization Costs for Patients with Oral Cancer:A Nationwide Population-Based Study in Taiwan

... quality and satisfaction of patient relate to the health services are concerned not only to the patients but also to the family, community, provider and the ...government. ... See full document

... BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Past studies consistently show an inverse relationship between physicians' surgical procedures/diagnoses volume and ...used nationwide ... See full document

... inverse volume– cost relationship in stroke care in Taiwan appears to be solidly rooted in the empirical ...be a tricky propo- sition. Although suggestions have ... See full document

... covering the years 2002 to 2003, the authors selected a total of 2325 oral cancer patients who had undergone free-flap ...equivalent surgeon volume groups ... See full document

... Lang and Su, 2004 ), the dreal-worldT practices of hospitals in Taiwan frequently reveal long waiting lists for psychiatric ...since the Taiwanese NHI provides unrestricted ... See full document

... hospital and randomly interviews patients and reviews charts each year to verify the diagnosis validity and quality of care .... Patients with confirmed oral cavity ... See full document

... Second, the ICD-9-CM coding of MM mixes all subtypes of the ...ALM with other UV-related subtypes would introduce random misclassification ...bias. The estimated HR of MM associated ... See full document

... uncommon in Asia, studies seldom focus on Asian patients with ...this study focuses on exploring the relationship between MS and subsequent cancer risk ... See full document

... 1 The high-risk group for HCC in Taiwan includes patients chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) and liver cirrhosis or a ... See full document

... Prostate cancer and COPD Dysfunction in the hypothalamic –pituitary–gonadal axis, such as hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, has been noted in patients with ...23 The ... See full document

... pancreatic, and kidney cancer incidences in Chinese men, ...respectively. A similar result was also observed in women, in which 55%, 16%, 14%, 45%, 36%, 19%, and 38% ... See full document

... from a study by Driver et al. [20]. For non-smoking-related cancers, the pooled data reflected a statistically significantly lower risk among patients with PD, which may ... See full document

... Background and Purpose— Past studies consistently show an inverse relationship between physicians’ surgical procedures/diagnoses volume and ... See full document

... Background and Purpose— Past studies consistently show an inverse relationship between physicians’ surgical procedures/diagnoses volume and ... See full document

... This study aims to examine the cancer patients? hospitalization costs and their financial risk ...problems. The following three issues will be investigated: First, ... See full document

... literature in this area proposes three possible hypotheses to explain the inverse volume- outcome relationship ...[1]. The first of these hypotheses, “practice makes perfect,” is ... See full document

... no study conducted outside of the United States on the association between physician volume and patient outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft ...surgery. The aim of ... See full document

... anti-inflammation and anti-pyretic effects , and Radix Angelicae Sinensis (Dang-gui), which has hematopoietic activity ...through the inhibition of muscular contractions ...cAMP-phosphodiesterase ... See full document

... no study conducted outside of the United States on the association between physician volume and patient outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft ...surgery. The aim of ... See full document

... This study was to examine the effect of hospital and surgeon volume on 5-year survival and to determine whether hospital or surgeon volume is the stronger predictor in patients with he[r] ... See full document