A5032407113- Diabetes Management and Research
- Healthcare Quality and Management
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Diabetes and associated disorders
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Risk Perception and Management
- Diabetes Treatment and Management
- Global Health Care Issues
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Insurance and Financial Risk Management
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Housing Market and Economics
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
University of British Columbia
2011-2014
Provincial Health Services Authority
2011-2014
University of Florida
2007
University of Maryland, College Park
1991-1994
Financial pressure mounted for hospitals nationwide during the late 1990s. Our study examines how this affected quality of their operations in terms organizational infrastructure and processes that support delivery care. sample consisted community operating between 1995 2000. was measured based on changes net patient revenues per adjusted day ratio cash flow to total revenues. The authors examined effects hospital investments plant equipment standards compliance with selected Joint...
The future costs of regulatory programs to protect human health are routinely discounted, but the lives they save in not. To shed light on public's attitude toward discounting lives, researchers at Resources for Future asked 2,600 individuals choose between one hypothetical program that would immediately and another 5, 10, 25, 50, or 100 years. From responses, inferred number must be saved make people as content saving life today, compared this implicit discount rate respondents' money,...
Vanderloo SE, Johnson JA, Reimer K, McCrea P, Nuernberger Krueger H, Aydede SK, Collet J-P, Amed S. Validation of classification algorithms for childhood diabetes identified from administrative data. Objective: Type 1 is the most common form among children; however, proportion cases type 2 increasing. In Canada, National Diabetes Surveillance System (NDSS) uses health data to describe trends in epidemiology diabetes, but does not specify type. The objective this study was validate classify...
Studies indicate high rates of treatment failure and early onset diabetes-related complications in youth-onset type 2 diabetes (T2D). We aim to describe the quality care provided children youth with T2D.This prospective cohort study used administrative datasets individuals aged 10-24 yr diagnosed T2D at <20 age (488 individuals; 2111 person-years). The primary outcome was being 'at goal' for adherence Canadian clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). This defined as having either optimal [three...
Multimorbidity, the co-occurrence of two or more chronic conditions in an individual, has been one most complex phenomena that challenged healthcare systems around world recent times.
This paper examines the effects of reinsurance on financial performance health plans serving enrollees in a State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). We demonstrate that simple policies can reduce substantially variation with different case mixes, even when bear cost and are not fully insured against large expenditures individual enrollees.