To examine whether the inverse care law operates in a screening program for diabetic retinopathy (DR) based on fee for service in Hong Kong.
Dr Adolfsson reports personal fees from AO Foundation, personal fees from DePuy Synthes, personal fees from Acumed, outside the submitted work.
Dr Palareti received consultancy fees from Alfa Wassermann and Daiichi-Sankyo, as well as lecture fees from Werfen Group and Stago.
Dr Cavender reports consulting fees from AstraZeneca and Merck and Co. Dr Scirica reports consulting fees from AstraZeneca, Gilead, GE Healthcare, Lexicon, Arena, Eisai, St Jude's Medical, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Forest Pharmaceuticals, Boston Clinical Research Institute, University of Calgary, Elsevier Practice Update Cardiology, and Forest Pharmaceuticals.
Dr Palmisani received speaker fees and/or sponsorships to attend professional meetings from Nevro Corp and Medtronic.
A compensation mechanism should determine the optimal amount of DR and optimal incentive fees to encourage the amount of DR that each customer is willing to curtail.
According to (19) and (20), the optimal DR amount and compensation fees are obtained, and they are graphed in Fig. 5.
Open image in new window Fig. 5 DR amount and compensation fees of proposed compensation mechanism for customer 3 on Bus 3. Customers may lie about their private information (theta_{3}) to receive more monetary compensation (y) offered by energy supplier.
Dr Andreozzi received consultancy fees or lecture grants from Mediolanum Farmaceutici, Alfa Wassermann, and Laboratorios Elmor.
Dr Dalby reports consulting fees and honoraria from Sanofi-Aventis, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Aspen.
