The results of this study suggest non-significant U-shaped patterns of association exist for utilization of THR performed for osteoarthritis across SES quintiles for males, and also for females, which appeared at greater rates in both upper and lower SES quintiles.
We additionally explored whether ethnicity-related differences existed between the utilization patterns in case of mental vs. predominantly physical morbidity.
Little difference in the rate of health care utilization existed between gabapentin and pregabalin initiators.> -wrap-foot> aConfidenceence interval; ED, Emergency department; PCP, Primary care physician; RR, Rate ratio.
Estabrooks [ 2] embarked on a study to explore and provide some empirical support for this conceptual structure of research utilization and concluded that "instrumental, conceptual, and persuasive research utilization exist and that a global measure of research utilization (overall research utilization) may be defensible" (p. 203).
Therefore, a wide margin for improvements in organ allocation and utilization exists that include the use of "optimal" donors and a fair allocation between islets and whole pancreas transplant programs.
NHI rules exist for PET utilization, with use approved only for some specific cancer patients [ 7].
After such a control, the only difference in utilization that existed between the patients of the two hospital types was the differences in the style of practice.
On the other hand, the same study reports that during exercise, epinephrine, and norepinephrine levels were significantly higher in men than in women and that significant differences exist in substrate utilization during physical exercise (see also below).
The horizontal inequity index of inpatient service utilization in 2003 and 2008 shows that obvious pro-rich inequities of inpatient utilization exist in rural China, which indicates that a disproportionate share of inpatient resources are utilized by richer people in spite of lower need.
With the efficient job monitoring capacity provided by SAGA-Pilot, all available cores in multicore instances are guaranteed to be utilized and thus contribute speed-up, but there still exists an inefficient utilization of resources.
