1.Increasing insurance protection efforts and improving the fairness of health care services: A-nalysis on the convergence mechanism between New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme and Healthcare Financial Assistance Program
Yazhen YING ; Wei PAN ; Zhaoyang ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Health Policy 2015;8(11):3-8
The goal of China's health care insurance system is to improve the fairness and accessibility of health care services for low-income people. In the past 10 years of practice, the insurance has made remarkable a-chievements and gained popularity among broad masses of people. With the support of World Bank and UK Depart-ment for International Development, China Rural Health Development Project ( hereinafter referred as Health XI Project) have used the advantages of unique funding, management and human resources to launched a series of pro-ject activities, with the main goal of achieving effective convergence between the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) and Healthcare Financial Assistance Program (HCFAP) in order to explore the assistance system of catastrophic diseases. Some areas have achieved seamless convergence between NRCMS and HCFAP to explore the assis-tance program for catastrophic diseases in the context of confirming and optimizing the management of services covered by the project, especially conducting a series of exploration and practice activities in the aspects of increasing new funding channels to establish theCatastrophic Disease Assistance Fund, strengthening the related supporting regulations, etc. The results show that the utilization of services covered by HCFAP in the project has significantly improved, the protection level of health insurance has greatly improved, and the people satisfaction has significantly increased.
2.RENAL FUNCTION IN THE PREMATURES
Yubin WU ; Kelun WEI ; Yazhen ZHAO
Chinese Journal of Nephrology 1994;0(04):-
Renal function was studied in 55 prematures (PTS) without complication, 28 male and 27 female. All PTS were divided into three groups according to age of days(AD), gestational age(GA), and body weight(BW)。BUN and SCr were significantly correlated conversely with AD, GA and BW (P
3.Induction of histamine release from human mast cells by Chinese cobra snake venom metalloproteinase
Yazhen MO ; Shaoheng HE ; Jifu WEI ; Zixia LIN ; Yiling FU
Chinese Journal of Pathophysiology 1989;0(05):-
AIM: To investigate the ability of Chinese cobra snake venom-metalloproteinase(MT) to induce the histamine release from human mast cells and its potential mechanisms.METHODS: MT was purified from the snake venom by using heparin agarose and Superdex75 chromatography.Mast cells were dispersed from human lung, colon and tonsil tissues after digestion with collagenase and hyaluronidase.The dispersed mast cells were then challenged with MT,stimulus and control in LP4 tubes for 15 min at 37 ℃.A glass fibre-based fluorometric assay was used to measure histamine in the supernatants of dispersed mast cells.RESULTS: MT induced a dose-dependent release of histamine from human colon,lung and tonsil mast cells.As low as 0.03(mg/L) of MT was able to stimulate significant histamine release from human colon mast cells,but a minimum of 0.3 or 30 mg/L of MT was required to stimulate a similar level of histamine release from lung or tonsil mast cells,respectively.The release of histamine from colon and lung mast cells in response to MT was maximized at 12 min following the addition of the stimulus.This was quite different from the picture of the peak histamine release from tonsil mast cells,in which histamine release was maximized at 8 min following the addition of MT.Pretreatment of cells with metabolic inhibitors and pertussis toxin reduced dramatically histamine release from human colon,lung and tonsil mast cells by MT.In exogenous Ca~(2+) and Mg~(2+) free experiments,the release of histamine induced by MT was significantly decreased.CONCLUSION: Cobra snake venom MT induces human mast cells to release histamine through a G-protein-related mechanism,which may contribute to the pathogenesis of venomous snake bite.
4.Spectrum and case fatality of inpatients with malignant tumors from 1995 to 2014 in Shenzhen city
Xingbao WANG ; Liecheng HONG ; Yazhen WEI ; Xia FU ; Xueqin BAO ; Jin ZHANG ; Gang HU ; Sihan WU ; Jinquan CHENG
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology 2017;38(6):784-788
Objective To analyze the epidemiological features,spectrum and case fatality of malignant tumor patients in Shenzhen city,to provide evidence for the development of prevention and treatment strategies on malignant tumor in Shenzhen.Methods All the hospitalized malignant tumor patients including deaths,were monitored from 1995 to 2014 in Shenzhen,and data was analyzed by SPSS 20.0 software.Results There were 160 988 inpatients of malignant tumors between 1995 and 2014 in Shenzhen.The top three hospitalized tumors were lung (13.64%),liver (11.13%) and breast (7.86%) cancers.Numbers of the malignant tumor inpatients had been rapidly increasing during the past 20 years,12.3 times in 2014 higher than in 1995.The total number of deaths due to malignant tumors was 19 460.Deaths of the top three malignant tumors were lung (24.40%),liver (19.84%) and colorectal (8.63%) cancers and the number of deaths was increasing,12.5 times higher in 2014 than in 1995.The overall case fatality rate was 12.09%.The annual percent change (APC) of malignant tumors case fatality rate was 9.7%(95%CI:2.0%-18.0%),during 1995-2003,with an increasing trend (t=2.72,P<0.05).The APC of case fatality rate during 2003-2014 was-3.4%(95%CI:-7.6%-1.1%),but the decreasing trend (t=-1.63,P>0.05) was not statistically significant.The top three major malignant tumors related to case fatality rate were lung cancer (21.62%),liver cancer (21.39%),and esophageal cancer (16.50%).The case fatality rates of leukemia and liver cancer had decreased during the past 20 years.The case fatality rates of cancers in lung,esophagus,stomach,breast,colorectal and nasopharyngeal,had all increased.The number of male patients was significantly exceeding the females (x2=41.691,P<0.01),with sex ratio as 1.65:1.From age 35 and on,the number of deaths due to malignant tumors increased significantly,with the peak after 60 years of age.Conclusions The number of malignant tumor inpatients had an annual increase as well as the case fatality rate.Cancers in lung,liver appeared the leading causes of death among the malignant tumor patients,with elderly in particular.Strategies related to the prevention and treatment of cancers in lung,liver should be strengthened.
5.Safety and efficacy of PD-1 inhibitors versus chemotherapy or ipilimumab in advanced melanoma:Meta-analysis
Zhibing LIN ; Yazhen MAO ; Xiaoyan ZHOU ; Xiaodan LIN ; Guiqiu XU ; Wei LIN ; Yuhong LIN
Chinese Journal of Immunology 2024;40(1):138-143,中插1-中插7
Objective:To analyze the safety and efficacy of PD-1 inhibitors versus chemotherapy or ipilimumab in advanced melanoma.Methods:PubMed,CNKI,VIP and Wanfang databases were searched to collect randomised controlled trials of PD-1 inhibi-tors in treatment of advanced melanoma.The search time was from the establishment of the database to May 1,2022.Two reviewers independently screened the literature,extracted data,and assessed risk of bias of included studies.Meta-analysis was performed using RevMan5.4 and STATA16 software.Results:A total of 7 studies were included.Meta-analysis results show that:①Safety:Compared with chemotherapy,PD-1 inhibitor treatment had fewer adverse events,especially in the blood system;compared with ipilimumab alone,PD-1 inhibitor combined with ipilimumab had more adverse events,especially liver function indicators;there was no signifi-cant difference in the incidence of total adverse events between PD-1 inhibitor monotherapy and ipilimumab monotherapy.②Efficacy:The PFS,OS and ORR of PD-1 inhibitor versus chemotherapy or ipilimumab were HR=0.54,95%CI(0.45,0.62),P<0.05,HR= 0.69,95%CI(0.58,0.80),P=0.03 and OR=3.16,95%CI(2.59,3.86),P<0.05,respectively.Conclusion:PD-1 inhibitors have good efficacy in treatment of advanced melanoma,while different combination methods and different control treatments may have different efficacy.Limited by the quantity and quality of included studies,more research evidence is needed to support this.
6.A multicenter study on the revalidation of validated conversion factor for the conversion of BCRABL(P210)transcript levels to the international scale in chronic myeloid leukemia.
Yazhen QIN ; Daoxin MA ; Yungui WANG ; Lili WANG ; Yue WANG ; Shengwei LIU ; Xiaojun LU ; Xiaoqing LI ; Jiannong CEN ; Min XIAO ; Zhenxing LIN ; Suxia GENG ; Chao LIANG ; Hui CHEN ; Cong HAN ; Wei HAN ; Xiaojun HUANG
Chinese Journal of Hematology 2015;36(10):814-817
OBJECTIVETo revalidate the conversion factor(CF)for the conversion of BCR-ABL (P210)transcript levels to the international scale(BCR- ABLIS)in chronic myeloid leukemia(CML) which validated before.
METHODSPeking University People's Hospital(PKUPH)prepared the exchange samples for revalidation of CFs of 15 laboratories which validated nine or eighteen months ago. The fresh BCR-ABL(P210)(+)bone morrow or peripheral blood nucleated cells were diluted with BCR-ABL (P210)(-)cells to achieve different BCR- ABL levels, totally 16 sets and 24 samples per set were prepared. TRIzol reagent was added in each tube. Each laboratory tested BCR-ABL transcript levels of one set of samples. Agreement between BCR-ABLIS of each laboratory and PKUPH was assessed by the Bland- Altman method. For laboratories which did not meet the criteria of revalidation, linear regression equation was derived after the samples with maximum BCR-ABL deviation were removed until R²>0.98, then new CF was calculated.
RESULTS10 laboratories met the revalidation criteria with both bias within ±1.4 fold and 95% limits of agreement within ±6 folds, and their CFs still could be used for accurately conversion of BCR-ABLIS. New CFs were recalculated as of 1.8-6.3 folds of their previous CFs in 5 laboratories not met the criteria.
CONCLUSIONRevalidation of CF by sample exchange among laboratories was necessary for accurate and continuous application of BCR-ABLIS, which not only tested the validity of CF acquired before but also calculated new available CFs for those with invalid CFs.
Bone Marrow Cells ; Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl ; genetics ; Humans ; Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive ; diagnosis ; genetics