Policy Solutions for Better Hearing Cassel, Christine; Penhoet, Ed; Saunders, Robert
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association,
02/2016, Letnik:
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The article discusses the need to increase access to hearing aid technology for senior citizens. In US, one of the age-related impairments is hearing loss, which affects more than 40% of people older ...than 60 years, more than 60% of those older than 70 years, and nearly 80% of people older than 80 years; this impairment negatively affects quality of life for older persons, however, assessment of hearing is rarely included in routine primary care evaluations and there is a dearth of insurance coverage for hearing loss. It is suggested that patients should be given more choice for hearing health care and innovation should enhance these options and reduce costs so as to promote greater adoption of hearing aids.
Create a COVID-19 commission Chyba, Christopher F; Cassel, Christine K; Graham, Susan L ...
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science),
2021-Nov-19, 2021-11-19, 20211119, Letnik:
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We need a definitive public reference for the history of events.
One of the most visible and contentious issues regarding the fairness of the original system of organ procurement and allocation is the argument that it resulted in great disparities in the total ...amount of time a patient waited for an organ (i.e. the time from registration at a transplantation center to transplant), depending on where he or she lived. In an attempt to resolve this debate, Congress charged the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine to perform an independent study of the original system and proposed rule changes. In an analysis of approximately 68,000 transplant waiting list records, the committee developed several conclusions and recommendations largely specific to liver transplantation policies. The purpose of this paper is to describe both the results of the study and the statistical foundations of the mixed-effects multinomial logistic regression model that led to the committee's conclusions.
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