The evidence base on health services use and cost burdens associated with transition to severe cognitive impairment (SCI) and dementia is underdeveloped. We examine how the change in cognitive impairment status influences nursing home use, hospitalizations, and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures.
Vaginitis is one of the most common reasons women access health care in the United States. Despite its prevalence and disruptive impact, it is frequently misdiagnosed and untreated, resulting in unnecessary patient discomfort, follow-up visits, and health care costs.
The authors sought to develop and test a tool that accurately predicts the unique financial burden to individual patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, an American Society of Clinical Oncology Journal
Anaeze C. Offodile II, Chris Sidey-Gibbons, André Pfob, Malke Assad, Stefanos Boukovalas, Yu-Li Lin, Jesse Creed Selber, Charles ButlerMarch 26, 2021
Environmental disasters impact disadvantaged communities disproportionately both through the epidemiological challenge of exposure, but also by undermining the progress of public health efforts.
This paper, published by the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, examines obstacles faced by those in Israeli society who promote long-term solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Gilead Sher, Naomi Sternberg, Mor Ben-KalifaAugust 28, 2019
King Abdullah announced that Jordan will not renew the annex to the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty that created special governing areas in Naharayim and Zofar. Gilead Sher, the Brochstein Fellow in Middle East Peace and Security, and Mor Ben-Kalifa explore this decision and the conditions that led to it in The Institute for National Security Studies: https://bit.ly/2Pvag58