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Smart grid energy scheduling based on improved dynamic programming algorithm and LSTM [PDF]

PeerJ Computer Science, 2023
The optimal scheduling of energy in a smart grid is crucial to the energy consumption of the entire grid. In fact, for larger grids, intelligent scheduling may result in substantial energy savings.
Xiaoyu Huang, Yubin Lin, Xiaofei Ruan, Jiyu Li, Nuo Cheng   +4 more
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Training healthcare workers increases IFA use and adherence: Evidence and cost‐effectiveness analysis from Bangladesh

Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2021
Iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation programmes are important for preventing and controlling anaemia among pregnant women in low‐ and middle‐income countries.
Zuzanna Kurzawa, Christopher S. Cotton, Natasha Mazurkewich, Allison Verney, Jennifer Busch‐Hallen, Bahman Kashi   +5 more
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Economic evaluation of treosulfan in patients undergoing allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Global & Regional Health Technology Assessment, 2022
Objective. To assess the cost-effectiveness and economic sustainability of treosulfan plus fludarabine compared with busulfan plus fludarabine as a conditioning treatment for malignant disease prior to allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Chiara Bini, Martina Paoletti, Andrea Marcellusi, Carlo Tomino, Francesco Saverio Mennini   +4 more
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Identification of individuals benefiting from the kakaritsuke-yakuzaishi (family pharmacist) system in Japan: a retrospective cohort study using an employment-based health insurance claims database

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background The kakaritsuke-yakuzaishi system (henceforth, the family pharmacist system) which provides more health services than those by general pharmaceutical practice, was implemented in Japan in April 2016. To distribute medical resources and medical
Ryo Iketani, Keiko Konomura
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Priority Setting for Universal Health Coverage: We Need to Focus Both on Substance and on Process; Comment on “Priority Setting for Universal Health Coverage: We Need Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes, not Just More Evidence on Cost-Effectiveness” [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017
In an editorial published in this journal, Baltussen et al argue that information on cost-effectiveness is not sufficient for priority setting for universal health coverage (UHC), a claim which is correct as far as it goes.
Jeremy A. Lauer, Dheepa Rajan, Melanie Y. Bertram   +2 more
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Unaffordability of COVID-19 tests: assessing age-related inequalities in 83 countries

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 is critical to manage the pandemic and its different waves. The requirement to pay out-of-pocket (OOP) for testing potentially represents both a financial barrier to access and, for those who manage to make ...
Gabriela Flores, Asiyeh Abbasi, Catherine Korachais, Rouselle Lavado   +3 more
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Socio-economic impact of epilepsy in Italy

Global & Regional Health Technology Assessment, 2022
The World Health Assembly recognizes the growing economic and societal burden of neurological disorders, a leading cause of disability and the second cause of mortality in the world.
Francesco Saverio Mennini, Paolo Sciattella, Matteo Scortichini   +2 more
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Experience-based health state valuation using the EQ VAS: a register-based study of the EQ-5D-3L among nine patient groups in Sweden

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2023
Background The EQ VAS component of the EQ-5D questionnaire has been used to assess patients’ valuation of their own health besides its use for self-reporting of overall health status. The objective of the present study was to identify patients’ valuation
Fitsum Sebsibe Teni, Kristina Burström, Nancy Devlin, David Parkin, Ola Rolfson, The Swedish Quality Register (SWEQR) Study Group   +5 more
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Cost-utility analysis of evolocumab in patients with ASCVD in Italy

Global & Regional Health Technology Assessment, 2021
Objective: The aim of this work was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of evolocumab in addition to standard statin therapy with or without ezetimibe in the treatment of patients with clinically evident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) with
Andrea Marcellusi, Chiara Bini, Maria Assunta Rotundo, Emanuela Arcangeli, Laura Martinez, Francesc Sorio Vilela, Francesco Saverio Mennini   +6 more
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EQ-5D-Y-5L as a patient-reported outcome measure in psychiatric inpatient care for children and adolescents – a cross-sectional study

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2020
Background Psychiatric disorders have a major individual and societal impact. Until now, the association between health-related quality of life and physical disorders has been far more investigated than the association with psychiatric disorders. Patient-
Mimmi Åström, Sonja Krig, Sara Ryding, Neil Cleland, Ola Rolfson, Kristina Burström   +5 more
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