+ patients more complex. Limited literature exists regarding the management of comorbidities costs. This study is aimed at … defining and comparing the total annual costs of comorbidities, in an Italian cohort of HIV and HIV/HCV patients, from the … National Healthcare Service perspective. The authors hypothesised that there are higher costs, for patients with multiple …

innovative policies, which improve operational efciency and achieve the best value for money for patients. This study aims to … develop a Decision Support Tool (DST) that assesses the impact of implementing new DVT patients’ management and care policies … was validated and verifed by various stakeholders and two policies, namely shifting more patients to community services …

AIDS/HIV patients and require an intensive consideration of patient preferences. The present study assesses expectations … from a previous study in which AIDS/HIV patients were asked to assess their treatment preferences. Results: 131 physicians … evaluation of AIDS/HIV treatment preferences as assessed by patients and by physicians assessing the view of their patients …

future expenditure for care of chronically ill patients is an ever-present challenge for the health care system. New … account to estimate the total occurring costs. It enables the treatment of patients by a physician, a specialist or a clinical … at intensive care units. To rate the severity of symptoms patients can be classified using NYHA groups. To outline some …

patients to migrate towards different health care organizations to avail treatments. The efficiency and productivity issues are … strong correlation is found among variables in our model and some relevant dependence is tested between patients’ mobility …

population of diabetes patients in 2011 (N = 318,729) were applied. Patients’ unique personal identification number enabled … contributing factors was applied. Differences in diabetes patients’ health care utilization patterns suggest that use of services … differ among patients of lower and higher SES, despite the Danish universal health care system. Especially, out …

< .001) but not more likely to be influenced when referring patients into hospitals (OR 1.73; 95% CI 0.72–4.12, p > .05). On …

section of about 32,000 patients for an ED located in the Southwestern United States. We construct a measure of a patient’s … overcrowding tends to generate a negative outcome for all patients. We also find that this negative outcome is larger for those on …