Disease relevance of Health Services

• Ipratropium bromide in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: effect on health service expenditures [1].
• In 1995 the Sexual Health Service in East Berkshire was formed by the integration of the clinical services of Family Planning, Genitourinary and HIV Medicine with Sexual Health Promotion. The philosophy of the service is to provide holistic sexual healthcare in one visit, on one site by one clinical team [2].
• These facilities allow the provision of social and health services like medical televisiting for elderly, disabled and chronically ill patients; health tele-education; and teleconsultation on demand [3].
• The subjects were 304 Medicaid beneficiaries from the state of Florida, previously untreated for mild to moderate hypertension, prescribed 240 mg of calcium channel antagonist verapamil once daily and monitored regarding prescription refill compliance and health service utilisation for one year [4].
• Resistance of falciparum malaria to chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Afghan refugee settlements in western Pakistan: surveys by the general health services using a simplified in vivo test [5].

Psychiatry related information on Health Services

• SETTING: Individuals with chronic schizophrenia were recruited from a mental health rehabilitation service, and individuals with first-episode psychosis and ultra-high risk were recruited from the ORYGEN Youth Health Service. Control subjects were recruited from the community [6].
• Levels of involvement and of satisfaction were related to demographic measures, health status measures, use of health services, and, for patients with RA, self-efficacy [7].
• Tiapride proved better (usually at statistically highly significant levels) than placebo at promoting: abstinence, self-esteem, and satisfaction with life situations; and at reducing: alcohol consumption, use of health service resources, and levels of neuroticism [8].
• Drug abuse, methadone treatment, and health services use among injection drug users with AIDS [9].
• OBJECTIVE: To better understand how mood-stabilizing agents other than lithium have changed treatment and outcomes in bipolar disorder, this study examined health service utilization among patients with acute mania who were being treated with a variety of regimens using mood stabilizers [10].

High impact information on Health Services

• MRC research centre under threat from London health service plans [11].
• Users' guides to the medical literature. X. How to use an article reporting variations in the outcomes of health services. The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group [12].
• PHP reduces the consumption of health services by patients with COPD, probably by increasing patients' knowledge of disease and hence their ability to manage themselves [13].
• To find out the extent to which smoking is restricted in health service premises a survey of 190 hospitals and health centres in the Wessex Region was done [14].
• Use of hematopoietic colony-stimulating factors: the American Society of Clinical Oncology survey. The Health Services Research Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology [15].

Chemical compound and disease context of Health Services

• With recent regionalization of British Columbia's health services, the cross-cultural mental health service has experienced increased coordination under the administration of the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (one of six British Columbia health regions) [16].
• The data from our registry and from the Health Services Command corroborate the increased likelihood of ectopic pregnancy in patients with failed tubal sterilization and underscore the need for close follow-up of these patients until the location of the pregnancy is documented [17].
• The adoption of measures to discourage tobacco cultivation and assist with crop diversification; integration of guidance on tobacco use cessation into health services and insuring the availability and access to nicotine replacement therapy are also part of NAP-NCD [18].

Biological context of Health Services

• Neurology "with the bark off": tacrine, nursing home residents, and health services research [19].
• In reviewing these issues the contributions of the health services research field, research pertaining to the psychological and social effects of epilepsy, and especially neuropsychology, are pertinent [20].
• CONCLUSION: Involvement of THs in the TB Control Programme may improve services as they are a major health service provider in tribal areas and are acceptable as DOT providers to patients, public health providers and NGO workers [21].
• BACKGROUND: Control of reproduction and prevention of reproductive health problems are important reasons for women to use health services, but the proper organisational level of service provision is not clear [22].
• In conclusion, major methodologic advancements in health services research and clinical epidemiology have developed pari passu with studies of the natural history of systemic lupus erythematosus [23].

Anatomical context of Health Services

• The Bristol Cord Blood Bank was established as a pilot project within existing health services to establish cost-effective recruitment, collection and processing suitable for use in the NHS should cord blood become a routine source of haemopoietic stem cells for transplantation in the UK [24].
• CONCLUSIONS: Varicose veins in the lower extremities are common, and demand considerable health service resources [25].
• The evaluation parameters were: PEFR, frequency of beta 2-stimulant inhalation, number of night time visits to health service facilities, quantity of inhalation steroids used, amount of oral steroids used at fixed intervals, peripheral eosinophil count, serum eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) concentration and FEV1 [26].

Associations of Health Services with chemical compounds

• While the Indian Health Service recommends treating all tuberculin reactors with isoniazid prophylaxis, most (75%) of our tuberculosis (TB) cases could have been prevented if the guidelines of the American Thoracic Society had been followed [27].
• Primary outcome measurements included serum creatinine level, estimated creatinine clearance, health services use, and mortality in the 5 years after enrollment [28].
• The analysis assesses health service resource use during the first six months of treatment in three groups of patients initially prescribed cisapride (CIS), ranitidine (RAN), or omeprazole (OME) [29].
• Whatever the causes, the implications for health services are alarming, although substantial preventive opportunities through small reversals of glucose distributions are the challenge [30].
• No significant difference (p > 0.05) in health service utilization was discerned between citalopram and either fluoxetine or paroxetine [31].

Gene context of Health Services

• In 1997, the ASCO health services research committee evaluated whether physician reimbursement was a primary determinant in the decision to use G-CSF and GM-CSF in this clinical situation [32].
• METHODS: A 2-stage screening protocol of a countywide population of second- through fourth-grade students in special education was conducted to (1) screen for ADHD, employing standardized parent and teacher questionnaires, and determine health services use (n = 499) and (2) perform diagnostic assessments of ADHD (n = 318) [33].
• Trading health services across borders: GATS, markets, and caveats [34].
• METHODS: The Saskatchewan health services databases were used to form a population-based cohort of 5648 patients aged 55 years or older who received a first treatment for COPD between 1990 and 1997 [35].
• Health service reform worries MRC [36].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Health Services

• METHODS: Data from the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission were used to determine incidence of coma, death rates, age at death of those who died, and length of stay for acute hemorrhagic and occlusive stroke in hospitalized blacks and whites after adjusting for sex and, if appropriate, age [37].
• Compared with the control group, patients treated with fluvastatin can expect to gain an additional mean (SD) of 0.196 (0.139) QALY per patient over 10 years (P < 0.001) and will cost the health service an additional mean (SD) of 10 pounds ( 448 pounds) (P = NS) (mean [SD] US $16 [$689]) [38].
• Unlike prescription drug use, overall OTC drug use was not associated with health services utilization [39].
• The 1982 and 1984 National Long Term Care Surveys (NLTCS) linked to Medicare administrative records 1982-1986 provide health and health service use data for 12-month periods before and after the introduction of PPS [40].
• OBJECTIVE: To perform the first prospective longitudinal study of direct (health services utilized) and indirect costs (diminished productivity represented by income loss) incurred by patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Saskatoon and Montreal, followed for up to 12 and 4 years, respectively [41].

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