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Costs of illness due to cholera, costs of immunization and cost-effectiveness of an oral cholera mass vaccination campaign in Zanzibar [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) as a supplementary tool to conventional prevention of cholera. Dukoral, a killed whole-cell two-dose OCV, was used in a mass vaccination campaign in 2009 in Zanzibar.
Claire-Lise Chaignat, Duintjer Tebbens Radboud J., Rita Reyburn, Weiss Mitchell G., Schaetti, C., Radboud J Duintjer Tebbens, Weiss, M. G., Rita Reyburn (130140), Khatib, A. M., Reyburn, R., Ahmed M. Khatib (130136), Mitchell G Weiss, Hutubessy Raymond, Schaetti Christian, Ahmed M Khatib, Claire-Lise Chaignat (127845), Raymond Hutubessy (130149), Ali, S. M., Khatib Ahmed M., Mitchell G. Weiss (130129), Chaignat Claire-Lise, Ali Said M., Hutubessy, R., Reyburn Rita, Christian Schaetti (130127), Chaignat, C. L., Raymond Hutubessy, Christian Schaetti, Said M Ali, Duintjer, Tebbens, Said M. Ali (130132), Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens (130144)   +31 more
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The Economic Impact of Eradicating Peste des Petits Ruminants: A Benefit-Cost Analysis

PLoS ONE, 2016
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an important cause of mortality and production loss among sheep and goats in the developing world. Despite control efforts in a number of countries, it has continued to spread across Africa and Asia, placing an ...
B. Jones, K. Rich, J. Mariner, John Anderson, M. Jeggo, S. Thevasagayam, Yi Cai, A. Peters, P. Roeder   +8 more
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Longitudinal circulating tumor DNA profiling in patients with advanced endometrial cancer using an off‐the‐shelf targeted NGS panel

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Intratumour heterogeneity complicates precision management of advanced endometrial cancer. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) offers a minimally invasive strategy to capture tumor evolution and therapeutic resistance. Here, we compare tumor‐agnostic NGS with tumor‐informed ddPCR, outlining their relative sensitivity, concordance, and clinical implications ...
Carlos Casas‐Arozamena, Karin Teien Lande, Eva Diaz, Ana Vilar, Juan Cueva, Efigenia Arias, Victoria Sampayo, Alicia Abalo, Nerea González, Eva Colás, Antonio Gil‐Moreno, Miguel Abal, Gema Moreno‐Bueno, Therese Sørlie, Kristina Lindemann, Laura Muinelo‐Romay   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Internalisation of External Costs in Transport: From the Polluter Pays to the Cheapest Cost Avoider Principle [PDF]

The European Commission mandated the consulting firm CE Delft to develop a framework for the internalisation of external costs and to devise a number of potential internalisation scenarios for further analysis.
Dieter Schmidtchen, Christian Koboldt, Georg Haas, Jenny Monheim, Birgit Will   +4 more
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Cost Comparison between Laparoscopic and Open Appendectomies in Children

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 2013
Objectives: Laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) for children has become very popular and is routinely performed in most health care centres around the world. The cost of surgical procedures is always a concern for patients and health care providers.
Shahzad Y. Khan, Zainab N. Al-Balushi, Khalid M. Bhatti, Toufique Ehsan, Prakash Mandhan   +4 more
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Cost-Utility of Interventions in Patients with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in a Universitary Hospital in Cali, Colombia

Revista Ciencias de la Salud, 2015
Introduction: Although there are several treatments for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), the efficiency of these has not evaluated in Colombia. Objective: Determine the incremental cost-utility ratio (ICUR) of medical and surgical treatment in patients with
César Augusto Guevara, Yuri Takeuchi
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Clinical performance of the urine‐based TERT promoter AbsoluteQ Digital PCR for non‐invasive detection of bladder cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
A urine‐based digital PCR assay targeting two hotspot TERT promoter variants detected bladder cancer with high sensitivity and no false positives in this case–control cohort. The streamlined AbsoluteQ workflow outperformed Sanger sequencing and supports non‐invasive molecular testing for bladder cancer detection.
Anna Nykel, Izabela Kubiak, Lena Rutkowska, Żaneta Kasprzyk, Łukasz Kępczyński, Michał Bednarek, Dariusz Sobieraj, Jacek Wilkosz, Piotr Kania, Adam Jędrzejczyk, Bogdan Kałużewski, Agnieszka Gach, Tadeusz Kałużewski   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pre-operative optimisation employing dopexamine or adrenaline for patients undergoing major elective surgery: a cost-effectiveness analysis [PDF]

, 2002
<b>Objective</b>: To compare the cost and cost-effectiveness of a policy of pre-operative optimisation of oxygen delivery (using either adrenaline or dopexamine) to reduce the risk associated with major elective surgery, in high-risk patients.
Sculpher, M.J., Fenwick, E., Claxton, K., Wilson, J.   +3 more
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Costos de neumonia nosocomial en una unidad de cuidados intensivos en Cartagena, Colombia

Infectio
Resumen Objetivo: Estimar el exceso de costos directos de atención atribuible a la neumonía asociada a ventilador mecánico en una unidad de cuidados intensivos de adultos en la ciudad de Cartagena durante los años 2009 al 2014.
Arnaldo Sanmartin-Ávila, Luis Alvis-Estrada, Mónica De La Valle-Archibold, Leslie Macott-Marrugo, Alix Palomino-Sánchez   +4 more
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Anti hypertensive prescribing patterns and cost analysis for primary hypertension: a retrospective study.

Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2014
OBJECTIVE The present study was conducted to analyze the current prescription pattern and cost analysis of antihypertensive drugs in hypertensive patients in a tertiary care hospital.
Rachana Pr, Anuradha Hv, M. Shivamurthy
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