Definitions of the vocabulary used across medical travel, from bundled case rates to donor area.
Unreviewed Written 9 October 2026| 5 sources| CARE covers case reports, not case series, and sends surgical ones elsewhere Case Studies in Medical Tourism Research Verified against primary record Reporting guideline CARE, a 13-item checklist for clinical case reports[1] Its stated limit The sample size is one, and causality determinations are a challenge for case … Read more
Unreviewed Written 9 October 2026| 5 sources| The famous imputation warning traced to Dempster and Rubin, not to the handbook Missing Data in Medical Tourism Research Verified against primary record Three mechanisms Missing completely at random, missing at random, and not missing at random[1] On filling gaps The idea of imputation is both seductive and … Read more
Unreviewed Written 9 October 2026| 6 sources| Sponsorship-bias figures verified; they cover drug and device trials, not this field Conflicts of Interest in Medical Tourism Research Verified against primary record When a conflict exists When judgment concerning a primary interest may be influenced by a secondary interest[1] On appearances Perceptions of conflict of interest are … Read more
Unreviewed Written 9 October 2026| 8 sources| Recoding 715 of 70,402 records moved 70 per cent of hospitals in a league table Risk Adjustment in Hospital Comparisons Verified against primary record The basic form A ratio of the observed number of deaths to the expected number of deaths for a provider[1] Variables in one national … Read more
Unreviewed Written 9 October 2026| 7 sources| No established epidemiological term for a healthy-traveller effect was located Selection Bias in Medical Tourism Research Verified against primary record When it occurs When individuals or groups in a study differ systematically from the population of interest[1] Records read Four bias reference entries, an epidemiology textbook chapter and … Read more
Unreviewed Written 9 October 2026| 7 sources| Two NHS trusts state in writing that treatment abroad is not a recorded field Clinical Outcomes in Medical Tourism Verified against primary record What a clinical outcome is A measurable change in symptoms, overall health, ability to function, quality of life or survival[1] The boundary it draws A … Read more
Unreviewed Written 2 October 2026| 7 sources| Two arithmetic discrepancies noted in the published participation tables Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Verified against primary record Definition Any report of the status of a patient’s health condition coming directly from the patient, without interpretation by a clinician or anyone else[1] Also known as PROMs English national programme Hip … Read more
Unreviewed Written 2 October 2026| 7 sources| Current survey instrument checked against its own fact sheet, not secondary summaries Patient-Reported Experience Measures Verified against primary record What they measure The process of care, as distinct from its outcomes[1] Also known as PREMs Distinction from satisfaction Experience asks whether, or how often, aspects of care occurred; … Read more
Unreviewed Written 2 October 2026| 6 sources| Checked the leading sector index against the ten published construction steps Medical Tourism Indexes Verified against primary record Governing standard The OECD and Joint Research Centre handbook, 2008, setting out ten construction steps[1] Why normalisation is unavoidable Indicators in a data set often have different measurement units[1] Audit … Read more
Unreviewed Written 2 October 2026| 6 sources| Checked how the two specimen satisfaction studies recruited their samples Patient Satisfaction in Medical Tourism Verified against primary record What satisfaction measures Patients’ expectations and whether those expectations were met[1] What experience measures instead Whether, or how often, specific aspects of care occurred[1] Records read A health agency … Read more