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Cost–benefit analysis of screening programme for diabetic retinopathy in Bulgaria
Aims Late‐diagnosed diabetic retinopathy (DR) is difficult and expensive to treat. Screening programmes can identify the disease early and reduce the costs of its future treatment. This study aims to analyse the cost–benefit of screening programmes for DR.
Iva Nenkova +5 more
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Quality safeguards and regulation of online pharmacies [PDF]
Using econometric evidence, this article confirms that distribution of medicines online is split into two market segments of very diverse quality, and identifies the factors that drive quality and quality assurance in this activity.
Benito Arruñada
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Underwriting area-based yield insurance to crowd-in credit supply and demand [PDF]
Recent theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that risk (especially covariant risk that is correlated across producers) may discourage both the supply of agricultural credit and the willingness of small holders to utilize available credit and enjoy ...
Boucher, Stephen +2 more
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Aims Predetermined treatment duration limits (PTDLs) are often used by Taiwan's National Health Insurance Administration to contain healthcare costs, but they may compromise patient outcomes. Therefore, we studied Taiwan's 2017 extension of the bevacizumab PTDL from 24 to 36 weeks in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) to evaluate whether prolonged ...
Wei‐Ming Huang +6 more
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MODIFICATIONS OF CONVENTIONAL CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN THREE INSURANCE ADVERTISEMENTS
Makalah ini membahas bagaimana metafora konseptual yang bersifat konvensional dimodifikasi dalam tiga iklan asuransi. Pendekatan yang digunakan yaitu kajian linguistik kognitif berdasarkan teori Lakoff dan Johnson (1980) dan Kövecses (2010). Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengungkap tujuan komunikatif dalam suatu periklanan yang menggunakan ...
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Endogenous Mortgage Choice, Borrowing Constraints and the Tenure Decision [PDF]
Earlier research has shown that lender income and wealth constraint ratios discourage homeownership. This empirical research has been based on home purchasers using an 80 percent loan-to-value (LTV) fixed-rate conventional loan.
Donald R. Haurin +2 more
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Introduction In recent years, the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare disease, has significantly progressed, improving patients' survival and overall quality of life. However, current SMA treatments are expensive, and some (nusinersen) are very inconvenient for patients.
Andrej Belančić +4 more
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Low‐intervention clinical trials in Spain: Do they progress?
Abstract Aims Low‐Intervention Clinical Trials (LICTs) are generally pragmatic trials that investigate medicinal products already authorized for use. In 2014, simplified regulatory frameworks were introduced for LICTs with the aim of reducing regulatory burden and operational complexity, to foster non‐commercial clinical trials (NCCTs); the mandatory ...
Claudia Erika Delgado‐Espinoza +4 more
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A transitional analysis of the welfare cost of inflation [PDF]
This paper applies new computational methods for studying nonstationary dynamics to reevaluate the welfare cost of inflation. A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents is studied.
Clark A. Burdick
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The Relationship Between Economically and Environmentally Marginal Land [PDF]
Concerns have frequently been raised regarding the impact of federally-subsidized crop insurance and agricultural subsidy payments on land allocation and crop mix choices.
Deal, John
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