A5074893294- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Global Health Care Issues
- Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Diabetes Treatment and Management
- Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
- Diabetes Management and Research
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
- Retinal Imaging and Analysis
- Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
- Heart Failure Treatment and Management
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Retinal Diseases and Treatments
- Accounting and Organizational Management
- Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
- Customer churn and segmentation
- Glaucoma and retinal disorders
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
Hunan University
2024
National Taiwan University
2013-2022
Mayo Clinic in Florida
2018
WinnMed
2018
San Diego State University
2018
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
2015-2016
Chang Hua Hospital
2012
Central South University
2011
ITRI International
2010
Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital
1990
A low bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) rate is one of the factors associated with cardiac arrest survival. This study aimed to assess knowledge, attitudes, and willingness towards performing CPR barriers for implementation bystander-initiated CPR.Telephone interviews were conducted using an author-designed validated structured questionnaire in Taiwan. After obtaining a stratified random sample from census, results weighted match population data. The affecting analysed logistic...
People who are overweight and obese have a greater risk of developing serious diseases health conditions. A steadily increasing trend obesity is not only limited to developed countries, but nations as well. As smartphones rapidly gained mainstream popularity, mobile applications (apps) used in public intervention keep track diets, activity well weight, which deemed more accurate than relying on user's self-report measure, for the sake weight management. solution called "Smart Wireless...
Global burden of COVID-19 has not been well studied, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and value statistical (VSL) metrics were therefore proposed to quantify its impacts on health economic loss globally. The expectancy, cases, death numbers until 30th April 2021 retrieved from open data derive the epidemiological profiles DALYs (including lost (YLL) due disability (YLD)) by four periods. VSL estimates estimated using hedonic wage method (HWM) contingent valuation (CVM). estimate...
ObjectiveTaiwan's health-care system allows patients to utilize specialty services without referrals by primary care providers. This discontinuity of may lead increases in future hospitalizations. study aims determine whether the is associated with risk hospitalization.
Background:Research into interventions based on mobile health (m-Health) applications (apps) has attracted considerable attention among researchers; however, most previous studies have focused research-led apps and their effectiveness when applied to overweight/obese adults. There remains a paucity of research the attitudes typical consumers toward adoption m-Health for weight management. This study adopted tenets extended unified theory acceptance use technology 2 (UTAUT2) as theoretical...
Studies on the effects of tuberculosis a patient's quality life (QOL) are scant. The objective this study was to evaluate psychometric properties Taiwan short version World Health Organization Quality Life (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire using patients with in and healthy referents.The Taiwanese WHOQOL-BREF administered undergoing treatment referents from March 2007 July 2007. Patients (n = 140) 130), matched by age, sex, ethnicity, agreed an interview. All participants lived eastern Taiwan....
AB Aquatic Biology Contact the journal Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 24:117-126 (2015) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/ab00641 Co-occurrence of juvenile horseshoe crabs Tachypleus tridentatus and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda in an estuarine bay, southwestern China Chang-Po Chen1,2, Ming-Che Yang3, Lan-Feng Fan3, Guanglong Qiu1, Yong-Yan Liao4,5, Hwey-Lian Hsieh3,* 1Guangxi Key Lab Mangrove Conservation...
This study investigates whether and how government-based customers affect corporate green innovation based on institutional theory the resourced-based view. Using data from Chinese listed companies hand-collected among firms' top five by distinguishing ultimate property rights, we find that can promote upstream innovation. result is robust after conducting a series of robustness checks controlling for endogeneity issues. Mechanism tests show enhancing environmental awareness providing...
Mackay Memorial Hospital (MMH) is a medical centre with 2149 beds and more than 9000 outpatient visits per day. In order to enhance its competition, MMH the first hospital in Taiwan implement Balanced Scorecard (BSC) fully for entire organisation, not just specific department. This paper will assess both direct indirect outcomes since inception 2001. From 2003 2005, revenue from services covered by National Health Insurance (NHI) increased NT$1407 million (US$1 = NT$32.9; €1 NT$39.0)...
Examining whether the causal relationships among performance indicators of balanced scorecard (BSC) framework exist in hospitals is aim this article. Data were collected from all twenty-one general a public hospital system and their supervising agency for 3-year period, 2000-2002. The results path analyses identified significant four perspectives BSC model. We also verified within each perspective, some which varied as time changed. conclude that administrators can use analysis to help them...
Background: The Charles procedure for late-stage lower limb lymphoedema (LLL) is often criticized its unpredictable and poor results. We have adopted a systematic approach to optimize outcome of patients treated with this excisional surgery. Methods: From June 2004 March 2009 we performed the on 1 19 women 8 men LLL. Mean age follow-up was 48 (range, 16.5–77.8) years 21.6 1.5–48) months, respectively. Results: Average inpatient stay 27 11–54) days. After discharge, 16 (59.3%) underwent...
This study aimed to assess the disease burden and economic impacts of human nonpolio enteroviruses (NPEV) enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) infection in Taiwan. We included children under five years old (n = 983,127–1,118,649) with ICD-9-CM codes 0740 (herpangina) or 0743 (hand-foot-and-mouth disease) from 2006 2010 National Health Insurance Database. Severity was assessed outpatient/emergency visits, hospitalization (with/without intensive care unit [ICU] admission), severe complications, death....
Diabetes mellitus is associated with increased risk of pneumonia, and 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23) recommended for prevention pneumonia. However, the effectiveness PPV23 remains unclear in older diabetic patients who usually have compromised immune function. We used data extracted from Taiwanese National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) 2000 to 2009 conduct a population-based retrospective cohort study, comparing incidence diseases among PPV23-vaccinated...
Objective: To estimate the smoking attributable medical expenditures and productivity loss of people aged 35 over in Taiwan 2001 from a societal viewpoint. Methods: A prevalence based approach was used to costs. Epidemiological parameters were obtained two follow up studies government statistics. Data on care utilisation expenditure extracted National Health Insurance claim data. Results: Total (SAEs) amounted US$397.6 million, which accounted for 6.8% total over. Mean annual per smoker...