Abstract Objective The CMS mandated hospital price transparency reporting on January 1, 2021 aiming to empower patients, enhance market competition, and curtail healthcare costs in the US.We aimed to characterize variability in hospital pricing reported by 1982 hospitals on six standard procedures (including abdominal ultrasound, diagnostic colonos
In constantly changing environments, it is crucial to adaptively respond to threatening events.In particular, painful stimuli are not only processed in terms of their absolute intensity, but also with respect to their context.While contextual pain processing can simply entail the repeated processing of information (i.e., habituation), it can, in a
We theoretically analyze outage probabilities of the lossy-forward (LF), decode-andforward (DF), and adaptive decode-and-forward (ADF) relaying techniques, with the aim of characterizing the impact of the spatial and temporal correlations of the fading variations.First, the exact outage probability click here expressions are analytically obtained f
Abstract Wikipedia, the free-content online encyclopaedia, contains many heavily accessed pages relating to healthcare.Cochrane systematic reviews contain much high-grade evidence but dissemination into Wikipedia has been slow.New skills are needed to here both translate and relocate read more data from Cochrane reviews to implant into Wikipedia pa