The observed drop in the number of outpatient visits induced by cost recovery is of particular importance, since the impact of IMCI is related to its ability to minimize missed opportunities of preventive and curative care at the outpatient level.
Eventually, she suffered one of her "extravagant" depressions, accompanied by a mysterious intestinal blockage for which she blamed the rich food, but which Epstein diagnoses as a case of Crohn's disease, and retreated from the Continent — pregnant — to a cottage in the English countryside, where her mother, who had come for a visit, induced an abortion with a brew of herbs.
Although the frequency of antenatal care visits was associated with subsequent facility delivery, the relationship appeared to be dose-dependent, 14 18 as in the case of the present study whereby making a single visit induced no significant impact; whereas previous studies undertaken in Tanzania observed high use of antennal care but low use of facility delivery.
Finally, the increase of yearly maximum reimbursement amount for outpatient visits can induce more patients to visit at the THCs and county-level hospitals, which may offset the attraction from the increase of outpatient reimbursement rates of village clinics.
Furthermore, instead of providing psychosocial support, it has been demonstrated that the outpatient clinic visit may induce anxiety because of the risk of detecting tumour relapse [ 10, 11].
It is possible that the preventive home visits program has induced the participants' demand for physician services and care provided by relatives and friends since the intervention explicitly aimed at identifying care deficits and motivating participants to seek solutions.
ATLANTA — A clamorous football crowd can induce visiting squads into committing penalties by drowning out the signal calls.
These displays typically induce visiting females to move a few steps away from the displaying male and incur the resulting measurable energetic cost.
The importance of inducing foreign Tourists to visit a country, goes without saying.
We correlated the changes in lung function only with markers, which had acceptable repeatability in the 2 visits 2006/2007 (10 BAL-, 10 induced sputum -, 24 serum markers listed in Additional file 1: Table S2, plus 23 blood parameters, for which the repeatability was not assessed).
The analysis is important to asses the eligibility of the AGnES-concept for implementing it into the regular health care system: a significant increase of the total number of home visits would have implied that the AGnES concept induced additional home visits in this setting.
