Medical Inflation
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1. Análise do comportamento financeiro de contas médicas em eventos cirúrgicos, comparado a índices inflacionários de preços e mercado de saúde
A prática de saúde no país passa por grandes e difíceis desafios. No que tange a financiamento o setor público ainda carece de um melhor dimensionamento e proposta estratégica. Já o setor privado tem sua crise pela falta de maios análise dos seus custos e suas variações. A regulação do setor suplementar ainda é muito jovem. Os grandes desafios d
Publicado em: 26/06/2012
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2. Correlação entre parametros fisiologicos e função clinica nas anastomoses coloanais com e sem reservatorio
Sphincter-saving procedures for the treatment of carcinoma of the rectum have represented important progress in the maintenance of patient s life quality following complete proctectomy without significantly compromising its prognosis. The purpose of this study is to compare manual coloanal anastomosis with and without colonic pouch and evaluate functional re
Publicado em: 1997
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3. Inflation and Medical Libraries
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4. Update on inflation of journal prices: medical journals, U.S. journals, and Brandon/Hill list journals.
This paper examines the increases in prices for the last twenty years for the journals listed in the 1987 Brandon/Hill list and for the last twelve years for those on a list of medical and general periodicals published annually in Library Journal. This information is compared to the general U.S. inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index. Despite
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5. Update on inflation of journal prices: Brandon/Hill list journals and the scientific, technical, and medical publishing market*
Objective: The original study of journal prices, using the “Brandon/ Hill Selected List of Books and Journals for the Small Medical Library,” was first published in 1980 and periodically updated. This research continues to measure price increases for these titles for the periods 1996 to 1999 and 1999 to 2002.
Medical Library Association.
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6. The Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Annual Statistics: an exploratory twenty-five-year trend analysis
This paper presents an exploratory trend analysis of the statistics published over the past twenty-four editions of the Annual Statistics of Medical School Libraries in the United States and Canada. The analysis focuses on the small subset of nineteen consistently collected data variables (out of 656 variables collected during the history of the survey) to p
Medical Library Association.
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7. What goes around, comes around: a history of medical tuition*
IN THIS ARTICLE THE ACTUAL AND RELATIVE COSTS OF TUITION AT 3 Ontario medical schools are traced over the past 150 years. In addition, the factors that led to Ontario's nearly 4-decade experiment in private medical education (and to its eventual demise) are presented. In relative terms, tuition was stable for over a century, then declined (after 1960) as gov
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8. Real inflation of journal prices: medical journals, U.S. journals, and Brandon list journals.
Increases in price during the last twenty years were studied for the journals listed in the 1983 Brandon list, and during the last fifteen years for all medical journals and for U.S. periodicals overall. When compared with increases in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), prices in all three categories of publications have increased much more rapidly than have pr
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9. Accelerated surgical stay programs. A mechanism to reduce health care costs.
OBJECTIVE: To increase cost-efficiency while maintaining the standard of medical care, an accelerated surgical stay program for patients having breast surgery was instituted. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: In the past 20 years, annual health care costs have soared and now comprise 12.2% of the United States gross national product. The annual inflation rate of almo
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10. National health insurance in America--can we practice with it? Can we continue to practice without it?
Health insurance in the United States is failing patients and physicians alike. In this country 37 million uninsured face economic barriers to care, and the health of many suffers as a result. The "corporatization" of medical care threatens professional values with an unprecedented administrative and commercial intrusion into the daily practice of medicine.
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11. Medicare use in the last ninety days of life.
The introduction of Medicare's prospective payment system (PPS) has led to changes in the way hospitals are being used. This article examines concomitant changes in the use of Medicare-covered services during the last 90 days of life, using data on more than 34,000 Medicare beneficiaries who died during the years 1982-1986. We focus on questions pertaining t
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12. Trauma service cost: the real story.
OBJECTIVE: The objective was to define and characterize the costs associated with trauma care at a level I trauma center. Once the costs were identified, attending physician-led teams were designed to reduce costs within each cost center. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: The location and magnitude of the costs on a trauma service remain largely unknown. Focused cost