Health Services - Utilization
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Medical Home is an evolving concept of patient-centered care yet little information is available on its effect on health care expenditures for children. OBJECTIVES: To quantify differences in patterns of care and costs to the North ... Read more...

Socioeconomic status and utilization of health care services in Canada and the United States: findings from a binational health survey.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: Building on Andersen's behavioral model for the utilization of health care services, we examined factors associated with utilization of physician and hospital services among adults in Canada and the United States, with a focus on ... Read more...

HIV-specific health care utilization and mortality among tuberculosis/HIV coinfected persons.

29 Sep 2009 Persons coinfected with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV are at high risk of death, in part due to suboptimal utilization of HIV-specific health care. We sought to better understand HIV-associated health care utilization and mortality in a retrospective ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Services - Utilization'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma. 30 Oct 2009
• Socioeconomic status and utilization of health care services in Canada and the United States: findings from a binational health survey. 30 Oct 2009
• HIV-specific health care utilization and mortality among tuberculosis/HIV coinfected persons. 29 Sep 2009
• Factors contributing to utilization of health care services in Malaysia: a population-based study. 29 Sep 2009
• Physical health correlates of pathological and healthy dependency in urban women. 29 Sep 2009
• Health care utilization and expenditures for privately and publicly insured children with sickle cell disease in the United States. 29 Sep 2009
• Public health impact and cost effectiveness of mass vaccination with live attenuated human rotavirus vaccine (RIX4414) in India: model based analysis. 23 Sep 2009
• Acculturation and use of health care services by Turkish and Moroccan migrants: a cross-sectional population-based study. 8 Sep 2009
• Getting past denial--the high cost of health care in the United States. 7 Sep 2009
• Regional variation and the affluence-poverty nexus. 7 Sep 2009
• The effect of identifying macroprolactinemia on health-care utilization and costs in patients with elevated serum prolactin levels. 30 Aug 2009
• Gender disparities in HIV health care utilization among the severely disadvantaged: can we determine the reasons? 30 Aug 2009
• Health-related beliefs and decisions about accessing HIV medical care among HIV-infected persons who are not receiving care. 30 Aug 2009
• Health care utilization in patients with eating disorders. 30 Aug 2009
• Physicians' perception of the effects of Internet health information on the doctor-patient relationship. 30 Aug 2009
• Health care utilization and cost burden of herpes zoster in a community population. 30 Aug 2009
• Effects of a palliative care intervention on clinical outcomes in patients with advanced cancer: the Project ENABLE II randomized controlled trial. 17 Aug 2009
• Influence of gender, sexual orientation, and need on treatment utilization for substance use and mental disorders: findings from the California Quality of Life Survey. 12 Aug 2009
• Asthma and posttraumatic stress symptoms 5 to 6 years following exposure to the World Trade Center terrorist attack. 3 Aug 2009
• Income-related inequalities and inequities in Irish healthcare utilization. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Health Services'

Definition: Services for the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health.

Descriptor UI: D006296

Alternative terms: Health Services; Services, Health; Health Service; Service, Health;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.421;

Online Note: pre-explosion = HEALTH SERVICES (PX)

History Note: 74

Technical Notes: IM GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics; DF: HEALTH SERV