03314nam a2200349 a 4500 ebr10680952 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 080814s2009 nyua sb 001 0 eng d 2008035991 9781604569766 (hardcover) 9781617285165 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)662453213 RA410 .H38 2009eb 338.4/33621 22 Health care costs [electronic resource] : causes, effects and control / Bernice R. Hofmann, editors [sic]. New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009. xviii, 339 p. : ill. Health care issues, costs and access series Includes bibliographical references and index. Commentary health technology : moral hazard, inefficiencies, and solutions / Read G. Pierce, Kevin J. Bozic, Philip R. Lee -- The future of health-care quality in the United States / Brandon Roberts -- Short communications the elasticity of physician supply and medical malpractice litigation in the United States / Brandon Roberts -- How do the drug ads and other factors affect the way dentists prescribe the medications and has prescription medicine increased the overall cost of health care? / Kim L. Capehart -- The affects of contemporary and alternative medicine on healthcare and dentistry / Kim L. Capehart -- America's weightiest health issue : not obesity, but bloated health care expenses / George Everett -- Research and review studies analysis of number of days required for full-time care before death and the cost of care in the last month of life among the Chinese elderly / Danan Gu, Donghui Gu, Jie Zhou -- Costing of primary care in developing countries : how much health can we buy for a few dollars? / Steffen Flessa, Paul Marschall -- Costs of epidemiological changes in chronic diseases in Mexico / Armando Arredondo, Emanuel Orozco, Edson Servan -- Deficit and health reform : two different phenomena? / Z. Darmopilova, Z. Zigova -- Screening colonoscopy in Germany : a cost-saving analysis / Andreas Sieg, Hermann Brenner -- A fully Bayesian cost-effectiveness analysis using conditionally specified prior distributions / M. Martel, M.A. Negrin, F.J. Vazquez-Polo -- Medication management and the older person / Maggi Banning -- Training needs of healthcare professionals working with breastfeeding mothers in England and in Poland / Joanna Kosmala-Anderson ... [et al.] -- The design and evaluation of a radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled inpatient safety management system / Chuan-Jun Su, Ta-Wei Chu -- A note on estimating a mean cost of hospital stay with incomplete information / Isabella Locatelli and Alfio Marazzi. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Medical economics. Medical care, Cost of. Electronic books. local Hofmann, Bernice R. ebrary, Inc. Health care issues, costs, and access. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10680952 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 60320 60320