Reduction in Healthcare Resource Utilization Following Treatment With a Home-Based Footworn Device in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: A Retrospective Claims Analysis by Josh Mark, Shirley Shema-Shiratzky, Joel Sommer, Tim Nolan, Ganit Segal

“…OA is the third most rapidly rising condition associated with disability and leads to a significant burden on the healthcare system and society. **Objective:** This study looked at the healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) in patients with knee OA and low back pain before and after the utilization of a new, home-based, noninvasive, biomechanical intervention. …”
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Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs Among Commercially Insured Patients With Advanced or Recurrent Endometrial Cancer Initiating First-Line Therapy in the United States by Monica Kobayashi, Jamie Garside, Joehl Nguyen

“…Patients with advanced or recurrent EC have a much poorer prognosis than patients with early-stage EC. Data on healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) and costs for patients with advanced or recurrent EC specifically are lacking. …”
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Central Nervous System-related Conditions and Associated Healthcare Resource Use Among Japanese nmCRPC Patients Based on Retrospective Claims Data by Dianne A. Ledesma, Jonathan L. Chua, Susan S.H. Tang, Xiu W. Lim

“…**Objective:** To describe CNS-related concomitant conditions during ADT and/or AA treatment and the subsequent healthcare resource utilization in Japanese nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC) patients. …”
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Care coordination across healthcare systems: development of a research agenda, implications for practice, and recommendations for policy based on a modified Delphi panel by Aneesa Motala, Susanne Hempel, Michelle Wong, Maria Bolshakova, Ning Fu, David Ganz, Sonali Saluja, Timothy Kim, Carolyn Turvey, Kristina Cordasco, Aashna Basu, Tonya Page, Reshma Mahmood, Jenny Barnard, Isomi M Miake-Lye

“…Objective For large, integrated healthcare delivery systems, coordinating patient care across delivery systems with providers external to the system presents challenges. …”
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Perceptions of ethical decision-making climate among clinicians working in European and US ICUs: differences between religious and non-religious healthcare professionals by Hanne Irene Jensen, Hans-Henrik Bülow, Lucas Dierickx, Stijn Vansteelandt, Rosanna Vaschetto, Gábor Élö, Ruth Piers, Dominique D. Benoit

“…Conclusions Overall perceptions of ethical decision-making climates were associated with religious beliefs, with non-religious healthcare providers generally having a more positive perception of the ethical climates than religious healthcare providers.…”
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Validation of the Transition Readiness and Appropriateness Measure (TRAM) for the Managing the Link and Strengthening Transition from Child to Adult Mental Healthcare in Europe (MILESTONE) study by Fiona McNicholas, Dieter Wolke, Jason Madan, Jatinder Singh, Federico Fiori, Paramala Santosh, Jane Warwick, Helena Tuomainen, Swaran Singh, Laura Adams, Mathilde Mastroianni, Natalie Heaney, Kate Lievesley, Ilyas Sagar-Ouriaghli, Giovanni Allibrio, Rebecca Appleton, Nikolina Davidović, Giovanni de Girolamo, Gwen Dieleman, Katarina Dodig-Ćurković, Tomislav Franić, Charlotte Gatherer, Suzanne Gerritsen, Elisa Gheza, Lidia Manenti, Athanasios Maras, Francesco Margari, Adriana Pastore, Moli Paul, Diane Purper-Ouakil, Francesco Rinaldi, Vehbi Sakar, Ulrike Schulze, Giulia Signorini, Cathy Street, Priya Tah, Sabine Tremmery, Amanda Tuffrey, Frank Verhulst, Anna Wilson

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Comparative Analysis of Financial Flows in the Healthcare Systems of Germany, Austria and Czechia: Opportunities for Savings and Assessing the Tax-Like Nature of Health Insurance Contributions by Mini, Patrick

Subjects: “…healthcare financing…”
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Self-reported health complaints and healthcare-seeking behaviour among adult people in rural Bangladesh: results from a cross-sectional study by Ashraful Kabir, Baki Billah, Md Nazmul Karim

“…Objectives This study aims to assess self-reported health complaints and healthcare-seeking behaviours in a rural population of Bangladesh. …”
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The Late 1980s HIV Outbreak in the Southeast of Soviet Russia: Soviet Government and Its Policy against the Epidemic (The Case of Kalmykia) by Margarita V. Baduginova

Subjects: “…history of healthcare…”
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Associations between prior healthcare use, time to diagnosis, and clinical outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease: a nationally representative population-based cohort study by Alex Bottle, Sonia Saxena, Richard C G Pollok, Jonathan Blackwell, Irene Petersen, Hanna Creese, Nishani Jayasooriya, Richard CG Pollok

“…Background Timely diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) may improve clinical outcomes.Objective Examine associations between time to diagnosis, patterns of prior healthcare use, and clinical outcomes in IBD.Design Using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink we identified incident cases of Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), diagnosed between January 2003 and May 2016, with a first primary care gastrointestinal consultation during the 3-year period prior to IBD diagnosis. …”
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Coproducing healthcare service improvement for people with common mental health disorders including psychotic experiences: a study protocol of a multiperspective qualitative study by Alexandros Georgiadis, Robbie Duschinsky, Jesus Perez, Peter B Jones, Debra Russo, Clare Knight, Emma Soneson, Mary Dixon-Woods

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Impact of Oxycodone HCl Extended-release Formulary Restrictions on Extended-release Opioid Market Share, Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs in Commercial and Medicare Plans by Rolin L. Wade, Chi-Chang Chen, Ajita P. De, Jaren C. Howard

“…ER opioid market share and healthcare resource utilization/costs for both cases and controls were evaluated for the 6-month period before and after the formulary restriction dates. …”
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Healthcare Costs and Resource Use Associated With Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Cervical Conization: A Retrospective Study of German Statutory Health Insurance Claims Data by Anna-Janina Stephan, Miriam Reuschenbach, Kunal Saxena, Vimalanand S. Prabhu, Christian Jacob, Kim M. Schneider, Wolfgang Greiner, Regine Wölle, Monika Hampl

“…**Results:** For each group, 2749 women were identified. Mean total healthcare costs after 24 months were higher in study cohort 1 (€4446, _P_<.01) and study cohort 2 (€3754, _P_=.09) compared with the control group (€3426). …”
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Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: Part I—Real-World Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Associated Costs in Later Lines of Therapy in the United States by Ehab L. Atallah, Rodrigo Maegawa, Dominick Latremouille-Viau, Carmine Rossi, Annie Guérin, Eric Q. Wu, Pallavi Patwardhan

“…Treatment patterns were observed from CML diagnosis. HRU and direct healthcare costs (payer’s perspective, 2019 USD) were measured in a 3L+ setting. …”
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Trends in the utilisation of maternal and child healthcare services from the public and private health sectors in India, 2005–2021: an analysis of cross-sectional survey data by Niranjan Saggurti, Rajib Acharya, Abhishek Kumar, Anchal Purbey, Arupendra Mozumdar, Punit Mishra

“…Market sustainability of key MCH indicators was assessed by level of MCH services and subsidisation.Participants 36 850, 190 898 and 176 843 ever-married women aged 15–49 years, 4440, 22 500 and 15 334 children under 5 years of age with diarrhoea before the survey, and 2552, 6960 and 6117 children with symptoms of acute respiratory infections (ARI) in NFHS 2005–2006, 2015–2016 and 2019–2021, respectively.Outcome measures The study used three maternal healthcare indicators: women had four or more antenatal care (ANC) visits, had institutional delivery, and received postnatal care (PNC); and two child healthcare indicators: care seeking for ARI and diarrhoea.Results In India, utilisation of maternal healthcare services increased over the last 15 years: four or more ANC visits increased from 37% to 58% and PNC of mothers increased from 33% to 78% between 2005–2006 and 2019–2021. …”
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Surgical Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Economic Burden in Patients with Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumor Who Underwent Joint Surgery in the United States by Feng Lin, Winghan J. Kwong, Sherry Shi, Irina Pivneva, Eric Q. Wu, John A. Abraham

“…Surgical patterns were assessed post-index. Healthcare resource utilization and associated healthcare costs, and indirect costs related to work loss in year 1, year 2, and year 3 post-index, were compared with those at baseline. …”
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Using Real World Evidence to Describe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Costs Associated with PDE-5 Inhibitor Monotherapy by George Ruiz, Jason Yeaw, Cassandra A. Lickert, Ajita P. De, Rolin L. Wade, Janis Pruett, William Drake

“…**Results:** PDE-5i monotherapy for PAH treatment was associated with high treatment modification rates, low adherence, increased healthcare resource utilization, and high costs. At 12 months post index, 41.5% of patients experienced treatment modification. …”
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Centralisation of financial decision-making on public hospitals in the Eastern Cape province by Thanduxolo Fana, Mosekama O. Mokhele

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From economics to health outcomes: Delving into the significance of reduced insulin prices by M Leuschner, M Strydom, V Steenkamp

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AN ANALYSIS OF FACILITY ASSESSMENT OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN NIGERIA: A MICRO-EVIDENCE FROM KADUNA SATE by Gimba Victor Kyari, Micah Dogara, Selbyen Evelyn Gimba

Subjects: “…Primary Healthcare G-ANC…”
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