This document summarizes a study examining whether hospitals shift costs from uninsured patients to private payers. The study replicates previous analyses using Texas hospital data from 2000-2007. Regression models relate private payer prices to Medicare, Medicaid, and uninsured prices. The results provide little evidence that hospitals shift costs to private payers from government or uninsured sources. The authors suggest further research on subsidies for uninsured care and better measures of market competition.
The document summarizes a parenting seminar on SAT preparation that took place on January 13th, 2013 from 10am to 12pm. It provides tips for SAT preparation such as starting study in junior year, taking the test up to 3 times, using multiple study sources like tutoring and self-study. It also shows pictures from the event of the speakers, students taking a practice test, and a student being congratulated after the test while reminded to fill out a survey. It lists the roles of the event organizers.
This document summarizes a study examining whether hospitals shift costs from uninsured patients to private payers. The study replicates previous analyses using Texas hospital data from 2000-2007. Regression models relate private payer prices to Medicare, Medicaid, and uninsured prices. The results provide little evidence that hospitals shift costs to private payers from government or uninsured sources. The authors suggest further research on subsidies for uninsured care and better measures of market competition.
The document summarizes a parenting seminar on SAT preparation that took place on January 13th, 2013 from 10am to 12pm. It provides tips for SAT preparation such as starting study in junior year, taking the test up to 3 times, using multiple study sources like tutoring and self-study. It also shows pictures from the event of the speakers, students taking a practice test, and a student being congratulated after the test while reminded to fill out a survey. It lists the roles of the event organizers.
This document analyzes quality of cancer care provided to veterans in the VA health system compared to care received in the private sector. It finds that while stage of diagnosis and rates of surgery/treatment are similar, veterans have better survival rates for several cancers including colon, lung, and lymphoma. Sensitivity analyses accounting for potential unobserved factors like comorbidities did not substantially change the results. Preference-sensitive care like primary prostate cancer treatment and end of life care also differed between the two systems.
This document outlines a study investigating the association between minority faculty development programs at U.S. medical schools and the diversity of faculty at those schools. The study will conduct an environmental scan of programs, interview representatives from medical schools, and analyze faculty diversity data. The goal is to describe current faculty diversity programs and determine if certain program characteristics are associated with higher minority faculty representation.
The document summarizes the Patient-Centered Transition (PaCT) Project, which aims to improve the transition from hospital to primary care for socioeconomically vulnerable patients. The project uses community health workers to help patients with tasks after discharge like scheduling follow-up visits and addressing social needs. The study will randomize patients to receive the intervention or usual care, and evaluate outcomes like follow-up visit completion rates and readmission rates. If effective, the approach could help high-risk patients transition from hospital to ongoing primary care.
The document summarizes a study that analyzes the effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act's dependent coverage mandate on young adults' health insurance coverage and labor market behavior using data from the 2008 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The study finds that the policy led to a 3.3 percentage point reduction in uninsurance among young adults ages 19-25, a 6.2 percentage point increase in dependent coverage through a parent's employer-sponsored insurance, and evidence of increased labor market flexibility for young adults.
This document discusses balancing pharmaceutical innovation and public health. It notes that while the current patent system incentivizes drug development, it can compromise access and public health goals in some cases. Problems include inappropriate patents, patents not rewarding true discoverers, and manipulation of regulations. Some areas like antibiotics face misaligned incentives as short courses are unlikely to be blockbusters. Proposed reforms address patent and regulatory abuse while ensuring important new drugs are created.
The document summarizes a study examining whether patients whose physicians have financial incentives to control costs receive care at lower-priced hospitals. The study uses California hospital discharge data from 2003 to estimate models of hospital choice. Preliminary results from multinomial logit analyses found the price coefficient was positive when insurers and patients were pooled, but negative for less-sick patients and more negative for insurers with high rates of capitated payments to physicians. Inequalities analyses found the price coefficient was negative for almost all insurers when patients were pooled, and more negative for insurers with high capitation rates.
Academic-industry relationships (AIRs) are ubiquitous in modern medicine and research. These relationships provide benefits like funding and resources but also pose risks like biased research. The types of relationships include individual grants/contracts, consulting, gifts, and institutional funds/equipment. While banning relationships is not feasible, policies are needed to manage risks like conflicts of interest and ensure transparency. Failure to do so could compromise values like unbiased education and research, harming public support for academic science.
The paper analyzes the impact of competition reforms in the British National Health Service on hospital quality and performance. Regression analysis finds that lower market concentration, indicating greater exposure to competition, is associated with lower mortality rates for heart attacks and overall, without increasing expenditures. Specifically, the difference-in-differences estimates show that hospitals in less concentrated markets saw greater reductions in mortality post-reform compared to those in more concentrated markets. This suggests that increasing competition through the NHS reforms successfully improved quality of care.
This document discusses plans for Barack Obama's political team to maintain and expand the grassroots organizing network that helped elect him, in order to lobby lawmakers and pressure them to support Obama's agenda, including complex legislation on healthcare, energy, and the economy. The team is planning a nationwide hiring effort to employ full-time organizers and sustain the millions-strong network of supporters. This permanent campaign structure is said to be unprecedented for a president and aims to both advance Obama's policy goals and lay the groundwork for his reelection campaign.
This document discusses simplifying metrics collection and analysis. It notes that metrics are important for measuring and improving systems. Previous methods of collecting and analyzing metrics were complicated and difficult to configure. The document then introduces new enabling technologies like Graphite, RabbitMQ, and RockSteady that allow for simpler and more real-time collection, processing, and visualization of metrics. These new approaches make it easier to configure new metric collection, detect issues via threshold crossing and dependency analysis, and gain deeper insights beyond basic metrics.
This study aimed to assess health literacy and medication awareness in outpatient neurology patients. The study found that over 85% of patients had adequate health literacy based on the S-TOFHLA test. Preliminary results found that a single question could predict inadequate literacy with 80% sensitivity and 97.1% specificity. Limitations included a low participation rate of 53.5% and need for altered recruitment strategies. Next steps include expanding to other hospitals, adding control groups, and improving organization as a single researcher.
The document summarizes the Voynich Manuscript, considered the most mysterious manuscript in the world. It describes the manuscript's unknown script and illustrations and provides a history of its ownership from the 1600s to present day. It also summarizes three failed attempts to decrypt the manuscript's text and script, but to date it remains unsolved.
The document provides instructions for creating and formatting a pie chart in Excel 2007. It discusses entering the chart data, selecting the data range, choosing a pie chart type, formatting the chart, adding a title, removing the legend, adding data labels, changing colors and styles. The steps include exploding a pie slice, applying gradients, shadows, and beveling to further enhance the visual presentation of the pie chart.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
O documento resume decisões recentes do Tribunal Superior Eleitoral sobre questões jurisdicionais e administrativas, incluindo ações de impugnação de mandato, propaganda partidária, pesquisas eleitorais fraudulentas e inelegibilidade de parentes de prefeitos reeleitos. O texto também lista processos publicados no Diário da Justiça Eletrônico e fornece o calendário eleitoral com próximas datas.
La Unión Europea ha acordado un embargo petrolero contra Rusia en respuesta a la invasión de Ucrania. El embargo forma parte de un sexto paquete de sanciones y privará a Rusia de miles de millones de euros en ingresos. Sin embargo, Hungría, Eslovaquia y la República Checa recibirán exenciones temporales debido a su alta dependencia del petróleo ruso.
O documento apresenta uma palestra sobre a Kinect, abordando sua introdução como uma interface natural inovadora, como funciona capturando som e imagem, e exemplos iniciais de seu uso, incluindo a aplicação da realidade aumentada em jogos de RPG.