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  2. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project - Wikipedia

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    Select statistics are available at a national- and county-level. HCUPnet can also be used for trend analysis with healthcare data available from 1993 forward. HCUPnet also includes a feature called hospital readmissions that provides users with some statistics on hospital readmissions within 7 and 30 days of hospital discharge.

  3. List of antineoplastic agents - Wikipedia

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    Non-small cell lung cancer, oesophageal cancer, uterine cervical cancer, head and neck cancer and urothelial cancer: Nephrotoxicity, myelosuppression and nausea and vomiting (30-90%). Oxaliplatin: IV: Reacts with DNA, inducing apoptosis, non-cell cycle specific. Colorectal cancer, oesophageal cancer and gastric cancer

  4. Chemotherapy regimen - Wikipedia

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    A chemotherapy regimen is a regimen for chemotherapy, defining the drugs to be used, their dosage, the frequency and duration of treatments, and other considerations. In modern oncology, many regimens combine several chemotherapy drugs in combination chemotherapy. The majority of drugs used in cancer chemotherapy are cytostatic, many via ...

  5. National Guideline Clearinghouse - Wikipedia

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    An electronic forum, NGC-L for exchanging information on clinical practice guidelines, their development, implementation and use; An Annotated Bibliography database where users can search for citations for publications and resources about guidelines, including guideline development and methodology, structure, evaluation, and implementation.

  6. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Wikipedia

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    AHRQ headquarters at 5600 Fishers Lane in Rockville, Maryland. The 2015 budget for AHRQ was US$440 million, [8] $24 million less than FY 2014. The budget includes $334 million in Public Health Service (PHS) Evaluation Funds, a decrease of $30 million from FY 2014, and $106 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund, an ...

  7. Hospital readmission - Wikipedia

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    CMS defines a hospital readmission as "an admission to an acute care hospital within 30 days of discharge from the same or another acute care hospital. [1]" It uses an "all-cause" definition, meaning that the cause of the readmission does not need to be related to the cause of the initial hospitalization.

  8. Specialty drugs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    By 2011 the oral medications for cancer patients represented approximately 35% of cancer medications. Prior to the increase in cancer oral drugs community cancer centers were used to managing office-administered chemotherapy treatments. At that time "the majority of community oncology practices were unfamiliar with the process of prescribing ...

  9. List of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies - Wikipedia

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    US emergency use authorization (EUA) when used with etesevimab [30] COVID-19: Bapineuzumab [31] mab: humanized: β-amyloid: Alzheimer's disease: Basiliximab [32] Simulect: mab: chimeric: CD25 (α chain of IL-2 receptor) Y: prevention of organ transplant rejections: Bavituximab [1] mab: chimeric: phosphatidylserine: cancer, viral infections BCD ...