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The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing [PDF]
Abstract What happens when patients suddenly stop their medications? We study the health consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price. Medicare’s prescription drug benefit as-if-randomly assigns 65-year-olds a drug budget as a function of their birth month, beyond which out-of-pocket costs ...
Amitabh, Chandra +2 more
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Cost, Effectiveness, and Cost-Effectiveness [PDF]
Pluck the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing . — —Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Minister of Finance to King Louis XIV of France Incremental or marginal cost-effectiveness ratios are founded on a number of assumptions that weaken their suitability as a way to balance competing economic and clinical priorities. We therefore propose
George A, Diamond, Sanjay, Kaul
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Biomarkers of Inflammation in Obesity-Psoriatic Patients
Psoriasis is a common chronic inflammatory multisystemic disease with a complex pathogenesis consisting of genetic, immunological, and environmental components.
Carmen Rodríguez-Cerdeira +8 more
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In an influential paper titled "The Benefits of Relaxing Punctuality", Alur, Feder, and~Henzinger introduced Metric Interval Temporal Logic~(MITL) as a fragment of the real-time logic Metric Temporal Logic~(MTL) in which exact or punctual timing constraints are banned.
Patricia Bouyer +3 more
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¿CONVIENE TRASLADAR A PRECIOS LA REDUCCIÓN DE COSTOS VARIABLES PARA APROVECHAR CAPACIDAD OCIOSA?
El artículo estudia los casos de empresas poliproductoras con restrictores comunes que estuvieren operando en óptimos de mercado con desaprovechamiento de capacidad productiva y/o comercial, focalizándose en proyectos de optimización de costos variables
Daniel Farré, Laura Ghezzi
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ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker +11 more
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Cost-parity and cost-Streett games [PDF]
We consider two-player games played on finite graphs equipped with costs on edges and introduce two winning conditions, cost-parity and cost-Streett, which require bounds on the cost between requests and their responses. Both conditions generalize the corresponding classical ω-regular conditions as well as the corresponding finitary conditions.
Nathanaël Fijalkow +1 more
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ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook +6 more
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ABSTRACT Background Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is a relapsing autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. High‐dose intravenous methylprednisolone (IVMP) is the standard first‐line therapy for acute attacks, although some patients remain refractory.
Wataru Horiguchi +5 more
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