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Blockchain based E-procurement system in healthcare
Blockchain based E-procurement system in healthcare
Public procurement, a critical facet in acquiring goods and services, has garnered scholarly attention in e-procurement. H...
Exact-matching algorithms using administrative health claims database equivalence factors for real-world data analysis based on the target trial emulation framework
Exact-matching algorithms using administrative health claims database equivalence factors for real-world data analysis based on the target trial emulation framework
Real-world data have become increasingly important in medical science and healthcare. A new, effective, and practically fe...
Evaluating medical providers in terms of patient health disparities: a statistical framework
Evaluating medical providers in terms of patient health disparities: a statistical framework
Statistical methods for provider profiling are designed to measure healthcare quality and create incentives for low-qualit...
Evaluation of survey delivery methods in a national study of Veteran’s healthcare preferences
Evaluation of survey delivery methods in a national study of Veteran’s healthcare preferences
Researchers often use survey methods to elicit patient perspectives on their healthcare. Survey results are often subject ...
ATRAcTR (Authentic Transparent Relevant Accurate Track-Record): a screening tool to assess the potential for real-world data sources to support creation of credible real-world evidence for regulatory decision-making
ATRAcTR (Authentic Transparent Relevant Accurate Track-Record): a screening tool to assess the potential for real-world data sources to support creation of credible real-world evidence for regulatory decision-making
Adoption and use of real-world data (RWD) for decision-making has been complicated by concerns regarding whether RWD was f...
Propensity score weighting with survey weighted data when outcomes are binary: a simulation study
Propensity score weighting with survey weighted data when outcomes are binary: a simulation study
Propensity score methods have been widely adopted in observational studies, however research on propensity score-based wei...
Inspecting the quality of care: a comparison of CUSUM methods for inter hospital performance
Inspecting the quality of care: a comparison of CUSUM methods for inter hospital performance
During the past 14 years, a clinical audit has been used in the Netherlands to provide hospitals with data on their perfor...
Descriptive and inferential analysis of features for Dysphonia and Dysarthria Parkinson’s disease symptoms
Descriptive and inferential analysis of features for Dysphonia and Dysarthria Parkinson’s disease symptoms
Parkinson’s disease is related to nervous system disorders in human beings. In this paper, the status of Parkinson&#...
Bootstrap approach to disparity testing with source uncertainty in the data
Bootstrap approach to disparity testing with source uncertainty in the data
This article addresses the problem of one-sided hypothesis testing on the means of two populations when there is uncertain...
Emergency department pathology order support tool (ED POST): a protocol using qualitative inquiry to inform design and development of a prototype to reduce low value care
Emergency department pathology order support tool (ED POST): a protocol using qualitative inquiry to inform design and development of a prototype to reduce low value care
Laboratory tests have an important role in informing diagnosis and aiding in the determination of appropriate courses of m...
Usability evaluation of interoperability interfaces in electronic medical record systems
Usability evaluation of interoperability interfaces in electronic medical record systems
Interoperability plays a crucial role in facilitating seamless data sharing across system boundaries, necessitating collab...
Matching on propensity and prognostic scores can lead to different estimates of heterogeneous treatment effects: a case study and simulation
Matching on propensity and prognostic scores can lead to different estimates of heterogeneous treatment effects: a case study and simulation
The purpose of this study is to illustrate how matching approaches based on different balancing scores lead to variations ...
Evaluation via simulation of statistical corrections for network nonindependence
Evaluation via simulation of statistical corrections for network nonindependence
Social processes and social context are increasingly recognized as key factors shaping health-related behaviors and outcom...
Diabetes Belt has lower efficiency in providing diabetes preventive care than surrounding counties
Diabetes Belt has lower efficiency in providing diabetes preventive care than surrounding counties
Annual preventive care is essential for diabetes patients to reduce the risk of complications including hypoglycemic event...
Limitations of the inter-unit reliability: a set of practical examples
Limitations of the inter-unit reliability: a set of practical examples
Healthcare quality measures are statistics that serve to evaluate healthcare providers and identify those that need to imp...
A bootstrap DEA approach to estimate residency match rate efficiency: the case of allopathic medical schools in Texas
A bootstrap DEA approach to estimate residency match rate efficiency: the case of allopathic medical schools in Texas
The match rate of medical schools in the U.S. has been extensively studied from the perspective of applicants and influent...
Efficiency, quality, and management practices in multidisciplinary and traditional diabetes healthcare services in Mexico
Efficiency, quality, and management practices in multidisciplinary and traditional diabetes healthcare services in Mexico
Diabetes is a major health issue in middle-income countries like Mexico. Multidisciplinary healthcare (MHC) models aim to ...
Privacy preservation of the internet of medical things using blockchain
Privacy preservation of the internet of medical things using blockchain
Nowadays, the Internet of Things (IoT) is used in every domain, especially in the healthcare system it plays a very import...
Assessing environmental performance of service supply chain using fuzzy TOPSIS method
Assessing environmental performance of service supply chain using fuzzy TOPSIS method
This paper aims to apply a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework to evaluate the environmental performance of th...
Controlling time-varying confounding in difference-in-differences studies using the time-varying treatments framework
Controlling time-varying confounding in difference-in-differences studies using the time-varying treatments framework
This article clarifies how the biostatistical literature on time-varying treatments (TVT) can provide tools for dealing wi...
Iterative proportional fitting as a balancing method in observational studies
Iterative proportional fitting as a balancing method in observational studies
This study compares Iterative Proportion Fitting (IPF) as a direct balancing method with five traditional propensity score...
Intraclass correlation for reliability assessment: the introduction of a validated program in SAS (ICC6)
Intraclass correlation for reliability assessment: the introduction of a validated program in SAS (ICC6)
Reliability refers to how measurements can produce consistent results and are crucial for any scientific research measurem...
Review of calculation of conditional power, predictive power and probability of success in clinical trials with continuous, binary and time-to-event endpoints
Review of calculation of conditional power, predictive power and probability of success in clinical trials with continuous, binary and time-to-event endpoints
Assessment of study success using conditional power (CP), the predictive power of success (PPoS) and probability of succes...
Disjunctive answer options complicate communication – a linguistic analysis of the danish EQ-5D (5 L) version
Disjunctive answer options complicate communication – a linguistic analysis of the danish EQ-5D (5 L) version
Introduction: EQ-5D is an internationally acknowledged tool for assessing health-related quality of life. Our aim was to e...
Hierarchical causal variance decomposition for institution and provider comparisons in healthcare
Hierarchical causal variance decomposition for institution and provider comparisons in healthcare
Disease-specific quality indicators are used to compare institutions and health care providers in terms of processes or ou...
Evaluating federal policies using Bayesian time series models: estimating the causal impact of the hospital readmissions reduction program
Evaluating federal policies using Bayesian time series models: estimating the causal impact of the hospital readmissions reduction program
Researchers are often faced with evaluating the effect of a policy or program that was simultaneously initiated across an ...
Improving identification of Medicaid eligible community-dwelling older adults in major household surveys with limited income or asset information
Improving identification of Medicaid eligible community-dwelling older adults in major household surveys with limited income or asset information
Analysis of public policy affecting dual eligibles requires accurate identification of survey respondents eligible for bot...
Bayesian analysis of longitudinal studies with treatment by indication
Bayesian analysis of longitudinal studies with treatment by indication
In a medical setting, observational studies commonly involve patients who initiate a particular treatment (e.g., medicatio...
Improving inpatient and daycare admission estimates with gravity models
Improving inpatient and daycare admission estimates with gravity models
Growing healthcare costs have been accompanied by increased policymakers’ interest in the efficiency of healthcare s...
Sample size recommendations for studies on reliability and measurement error: an online application based on simulation studies
Sample size recommendations for studies on reliability and measurement error: an online application based on simulation studies
Simulation studies were performed to investigate for which conditions of sample size of patients (n) and number of repeate...
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