Patient Advocacy - Economics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

How advocates use health economic data and projections: the Irish experience.

29 Jun 2009 Approximately 30,000 people die in Ireland each year. Currently over 6000 people access specialist palliative care services annually, a figure that is projected to rise to 12,500 by 2016. In 2006, the Irish Hospice Foundation entered a joint ... Read more...

The agency problem and medical acting: an example of applying economic theory to medical ethics.

8 May 2008 In this article, the authors attempt to build a bridge between economic theory and medical ethics to offer a new perspective to tackle ethical challenges in the physician-patient encounter. They apply elements of new institutional economics to the ... Read more...

Impact of managed care on physicians' decisions to manipulate reimbursement rules: an explanatory model.

29 Jun 2007 OBJECTIVE: To develop and test an explanatory model of the impact of managed care on physicians' decisions to manipulate reimbursement rules for patients. METHODS: A self-administered mailed questionnaire of a national random sample of 1124 ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Patient Advocacy - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• How advocates use health economic data and projections: the Irish experience. 29 Jun 2009
• Patient advocacy in an era of financial constraints. 30 Jan 2009
• The role of physicians in political advocacy. Results of a Canadian Society of Nephrology survey. 29 Nov 2008
• Why have evidence if it's really money that matters? 30 Jul 2008
• The agency problem and medical acting: an example of applying economic theory to medical ethics. 8 May 2008
• Aesthetic reconstructive surgery: patient access to essential care requires expanded definitions. 28 Feb 2008
• The increasingly complex world of cancer patient advocacy organizations. 30 Dec 2007
• WHO's web-based public hearings: hijacked by pharma? 17 Nov 2007
• Conversations in ethics. 29 Jun 2007
• Impact of managed care on physicians' decisions to manipulate reimbursement rules: an explanatory model. 29 Jun 2007
• Autonomy and ars moriendi. 25 Mar 2007
• Elder financial abuse: Tips for the medical director. 2 Oct 2006
• [The nurse facing economic control] 29 Jun 2005
• Advocating for cervical cancer prevention. 29 Apr 2005
• [Organization, functioning and expectations of organizations representing patients. Survey of key informants.] 27 Feb 2005
• TMF growing pains require growing support. 30 Oct 2004
• The impact of patient advocacy: the University of California-San Francisco experience. 30 Oct 2004
• After the election. 27 Oct 2004
• State long term care ombudsman programs: factors associated with perceived effectiveness. 30 Jan 2004
• Beyond the lies: solving the problem. 30 Dec 2003

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Technical information about 'Patient Advocacy'

Definition: Promotion and protection of the rights of patients, frequently through a legal process.

Descriptor UI: D010344

Alternative terms: Patient Advocacy; Advocacy, Patient; Patient Ombudsmen; Ombudsmen, Patient; Patient Ombudsman; Ombudsman, Patient; Patient Representatives; Patient Representative; Representative, Patient; Representatives, Patient; Clinical Ombudsman; Ombudsman, Clinical;

Related Mesh Headings: Patient Rights;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.880.604.631; N03.706.678;

History Note: 76