Cost Of Illness
Mostrando 25-36 de 75 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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25. Direct costs of asthma in Brazil: a comparison between controlled and uncontrolled asthmatic patients
Asthma is a common chronic illness that imposes a heavy burden on all aspects of the patient's life, including personal and health care cost expenditures. To analyze the direct cost associated to uncontrolled asthma patients, a cross-sectional study was conducted to determine costs related to patients with uncontrolled and controlled asthma. Uncontrolled pat
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research. Publicado em: 14/06/2007
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26. Relações sociais de trabalho e custo humano da atividade: vivências de mal-estar e bem-estar em serviço de teleatendimento governamental
The general objective of this study is to investigate the inter-relation between the human cost of activity and the social relations of labour in a governments call center service. It consists of a study in Ergonomics of Activity considering three analytical dimensions: social relations of labour, human cost of activity and experiences of well being and disc
Publicado em: 2006
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27. Infecção nosocomial da corrente sanguínea por Staphy- lococcus aureus: avaliação do tempo de permanência, mor- talidade atribuída e custos diretos extras
Objective: To determine the excess length of stay extra costs and mortality attributable to nosocomial S aureus bloodstream infection at a teaching hospital in Goiânia-Goiás Methods: Pairwise-matched (1:1) case-control study All patients older than 13 years admitted at the University Hospital of UFG between 2000 and 2001 were eligible Cases were defined as
Publicado em: 2006
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28. AvaliaÃÃo fonoforense em pacientes com artrite reumatÃide / Ultrasound phonoforesis evaluation in patients with rheumatic arthritis
Arthritis reaches 1,8 millions of Brazilians. It may induce to incapacibility making impossible simple daily activities. Reached joints treatment is basic to prevent the deformities caused for the illness and to keep the patientâs muscular mass. However, such therapy presents better resulted when inflammatory process is controlled, being necessary anti-infl
Publicado em: 2006
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29. Development of immunological and molecular methods for detection of salmonellae in foods / Desenvolvimento de métodos imunológicos e moleculares para detecção se salmonelas em alimentos
Salmonella is a major cause of food-borne illness all over the world. Conventional cultural method for detection of this bacterium in foods is laborious and time-consuming, requiring at least 4 days to obtain negative results, and 6–7 days for identification and confirmation of positive samples. In this manner, rapid methods, such as enzyme-linked immu
Publicado em: 2005
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30. Resultado clínico e econômico de um programa de prevenção e reabilitação cardiovascular com ênfase no exercício físico / Clinical and economical result of a cardiovascular rehabilitation and prevention program with physical exercise
Cardiovascular rehabilitation is a safe treatment with a good benefit cost, this becomes regrettable the fact that there is a very insignificant number of this kind of services in Brazil. And because of this fact a great majority of patients remains lacking of these benefits. In the country (Brazil) the big loss of these programs and, consequently the absenc
Publicado em: 2005
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31. "A experiência da família frente ao idoso com câncer" / The experience of family fronts the elderly with cancer
The epidemiologic and demographic transition brought with itself the increase of chronic conditions in Brazil and in the world and, the cancer emerges as a problem of great impact for the family, provoking pains, socio-economic difficulties and the accumulation of tasks for the family members and to the family carer. This research aimed at understanding the
Publicado em: 2005
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32. "Pesquisa de sítios de restrição enzimática em segmento da ORF K1 do genoma de herpesvírus humano tipo 8 (HHV-8) em isolados clínicos de São Paulo: relação com subtipos virais e implantação da técnica de RFLP (Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analyses) para determinar subtipos virais" / "Research of the restriction enzymatic sites in segment from ORF K1 genome HHV-8, isolates from KS-AIDS patients of São Paulo. Standardized a PCR-RFLP (restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis for HHV-8 subtyping"
AIDS epidemic has increased the incidence rates of Kaposi s sarcoma (KS) in all countries, and KS has been considered an AIDS-defining illness. Since the discovery of the human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), the etiological agent of KS, several studies have been conducted in order to characterize HHV-8 in all forms of KS: classic, endemic, iatrogenic, and epidemic
Publicado em: 2003
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33. A study of the relationship between severity of illness and hospital cost in New Jersey hospitals.
In response to concerns over the equity of diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based prospective payment, the New Jersey Department of Health conducted a Severity of Illness evaluation study in which severity of illness, DRG, and uniform cost information were collected for 76,798 patients in 25 hospitals. Severity of illness was measured using the Computerized Sev
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34. Cost effectiveness in treating ventilator-associated pneumonia
Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a common illness in intensive care unit patients. The costs of management are increased when infection involves resistant organisms, as well as unnecessary and prolonged therapy. Efforts at accurate diagnosis, therapy and prevention can reduce the cost impact of this illness.
BioMed Central.
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35. Evidence from Cost-Effectiveness Research
Summary: Economic evaluations are a set of outcomes and health services research methods to inform the debate about the rising cost of health care and include cost-of-illness studies and cost-effectiveness research. Cost-effectiveness research is the comparative analysis of two or more alternative interventions in terms of their health and economic consequen
The American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics.
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36. Nursing: a major hospital cost component.
Selected studies of nursing costs demonstrate a wide variation per patient-day and per patient stay within the same DRG. These differences could reflect either actual differences in nursing practice or methodological differences in calculating practice costs. We examined several alternative methods to find hospital nursing costs of the same group of patients