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Academic health centers, which emphasize research, teaching, and new technologies, may be disadvantaged by the payment scheme. [59] Providers risk large losses, for example if a patient experiences a catastrophic event. [60] A complex "reinsurance mechanism" may be needed to convince providers to accept bundled payments. [60]
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced "H-Cup") is a family of healthcare databases and related software tools and products from the United States that is developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Implementation research is the systematic study of methods that support the application of research findings and other evidence-based knowledge into policy and practice. [1] It aims to understand the most effective pathways from research to practical application, particularly in areas such as health, education, psychology and management. [ 2 ]
[9] [10] [11] Government mandated critical care and government insurance programs like Medicare also impact the market pricing of U.S. health care. According to The New York Times in 2011, "the United States is far and away the world leader in medical spending, even though numerous studies have concluded that Americans do not get better care ...
SuperCROSS – comprehensive statistics package with ad-hoc, cross tabulation analysis; Systat – general statistics package; The Unscrambler – free-to-try commercial multivariate analysis software for Windows; Unistat – general statistics package that can also work as Excel add-in; WarpPLS – statistics package used in structural ...
This field is central to much quantitative research that is undertaken within the social sciences. Quantitative research may involve the use of proxies as stand-ins for other quantities that cannot be directly measured. Tree-ring width, for example, is considered a reliable proxy of ambient environmental conditions such as the warmth of growing ...
Our research group has pioneered methods to turn these stem cells into miniature heart tissues that can be used to model disease-in-a-dish, to identify new drug targets for the development of new ...
Computational Econometrics: Its Impact on the Development of Quantitative Economics. IOS Press. ISBN 1-58603-426-X. Zhu, Xiaoping; Kuljaca, Ognjen (2005). "A Short Preview of Free Statistical Software Packages for Teaching Statistics to Industrial Technology Majors" (PDF). Journal of Industrial Technology. 21 (2).