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First national tuberculosis patient cost survey in Lao People's Democratic Republic: Assessment of the financial burden faced by TB-affected households and the comparisons by drug-resistance and HIV status.

PLoS ONE, 2020
BackgroundTuberculosis (TB) patients incur large costs for care seeking, diagnosis, and treatment. To understand the magnitude of this financial burden and its main cost drivers, the Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) National TB Programme carried ...
Phonenaly Chittamany, Takuya Yamanaka, Sakhone Suthepmany, Thepphouthone Sorsavanh, Phitsada Siphanthong, Jacques Sebert, Kerri Viney, Thipphasone Vixaysouk, Moeko Nagai, Vilath Seevisay, Kiyohiko Izumi, Fukushi Morishita, Nobuyuki Nishikiori   +12 more
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Factors influencing the use of bed nets in Mbarara municipality of Uganda. [PDF]

, 2001
In order to identify independent predictors for bed net use, respondents from 643 households selected randomly from 21 clusters were interviewed in Mbarara municipality, Uganda.
Nuwaha, F
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of pembrolizumab versus standard-of-care chemotherapy for first-line treatment of PD-L1 positive (>50%) metastatic squamous and non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer in France.

Lung Cancer, 2019
INTRODUCTION In the KEYNOTE-024 trial, pembrolizumab demonstrated significant improvements in progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) versus Standard-of-Care (SoC) platinum-based doublets for first-line treatment of PD-L1 -positive (≥50%
C. Chouaid, Lionel Bensimon, E. Clay, A. Millier, L. Lévy-Bachelot, Min Huang, P. Levy   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Molecular cancer prevention: Intercepting disease

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Oncological practice must evolve, from treating established tumours to proactive cancer interception before clinical manifestation. This will require mechanistic insight into tumour initiation, validated biomarkers of early disease development and redesigned clinical trials, enabling cancer interception to become a core pillar of oncology with the ...
Charlotte Grieco, Tej Pandya, Charles Swanton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disease Burden and Inpatient Management of Children with Acute Respiratory Viral Infections during the Pre-COVID Era in Germany: A Cost-of-Illness Study

Viruses
Respiratory viral infections (RVIs) are common reasons for healthcare consultations. The inpatient management of RVIs consumes significant resources. From 2009 to 2014, we assessed the costs of RVI management in 4776 hospitalized children aged 0–18 years
Maren Alchikh, Tim O. F. Conrad, Patrick E. Obermeier, Xiaolin Ma, Brunhilde Schweiger, Onya Opota, Barbara A. Rath   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

The societal impact of treatment with natalizumab of relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis in Italian clinical practice: The Tysabri PharmacoEconomics (TyPE) Study

Global & Regional Health Technology Assessment, 2019
Multiple sclerosis progressively impairs patients’ ability to independently perform activities of daily living, reduces working capacity, and negatively affects social interactions and relationships, imposing a cost for the society. The aim of this study
B Polistena, F Spandonaro, R Capra, S Fantaccini, L Santoni, GB Zimatore, C Gasperini   +6 more
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The economic burden of tuberculosis in Cyprus. A probabilistic cost of illness study.

Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health, 2018
Background: Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem with considerable economic burden worldwide. The aim of this study was to estimate the economic burden of tuberculosis in Cyprus during 2009.
Savvas Zannetos, Theodora Zachariadou, Tonia Adamidi, Andreas Georgiou   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Non-medical costs of colonoscopy

Gastroenterology Review, 2014
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignancies in Europe and North America. Colonoscopy done every 10 years beginning at age 50 is the preferred method of screening.
P. Petryszyn, R. Kempiński, Jerzy Michałowicz, E. Poniewierka   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Automated FRAP microscopy for high‐throughput analysis of protein dynamics in chromatin organization and transcription

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
RoboMic is an automated confocal microscopy pipeline for high‐throughput functional imaging in living cells. Demonstrated with fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP), it integrates AI‐driven nuclear segmentation, ROI selection, bleaching, and analysis.
Selçuk Yavuz, Bart Geverts, Johan A. Slotman, Andrea Sacchetti, Stefan Prekovic, Martin E. van Royen, Adriaan B. Houtsmuller   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source