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Effectiveness, costs and cost-effectiveness of chiropractic care and physiotherapy compared with information and advice in the treatment of non-specific chronic low back pain: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Trials, 2017
Background Low back pain is a global public health problem and a leading cause of disability all over the world. The lifetime prevalence of low back pain is 70–80% and a significant proportion of people affected develop chronic low back pain (CLBP ...
Filip Gedin, Martin Skeppholm, Kristina Burström, Vibeke Sparring, Mesfin Tessma, Niklas Zethraeus   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Social and Economic Impacts of FreshWorks: An Examination of Three Northgate Gonzalez Grocery Store Investments [PDF]

, 2016
In order to better understand and maximize FreshWorks' impact, TCE commissioned a two-year evaluation of the program's food access, social, and economic outcomes.

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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
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Probabilistic cost-effectiveness analysis of controlled ovarian stimulation with recombinant FSH plus recombinant LH vs. human menopausal gonadotropin for women undergoing IVF

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, 2018
Background The association of recombinant FSH plus recombinant LH in 2:1 ratio may be used not only to induce ovulation in anovulatory women with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism but also to achieve multiple follicular developments in human IVF.
F. S. Mennini, A. Marcellusi, R. Viti, C. Bini, A. Carosso, A. Revelli, C. Benedetto   +6 more
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Mapping EORTC QLQ-C30 and FACT-G onto EQ-5D-5L index for patients with cancer

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2020
Background To develop direct and indirect (response) mapping algorithms from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) and the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy General ...
Yasuhiro Hagiwara, Takeru Shiroiwa, Naruto Taira, Takuya Kawahara, Keiko Konomura, Shinichi Noto, Takashi Fukuda, Kojiro Shimozuma   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a Model for Quantitative Assessment of Newborn Screening in Japan Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

International Journal of Neonatal Screening, 2023
Whether or not conditions should be included in publicly funded newborn screening (NBS) programs should be discussed according to objective and transparent criteria. Certain criteria have been developed for the introduction of NBS programs in the context
Keiko Konomura, Eri Hoshino, Kotomi Sakai, Takashi Fukuda, Go Tajima   +4 more
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A Survey on Economic-driven Evaluations of Information Technology [PDF]

, 2007
The economic-driven evaluation of information technology (IT) has become an important instrument in the management of IT projects. Numerous approaches have been developed to quantify the costs of an IT investment and its assumed profit, to evaluate its ...
Mutschler, B., Reichert, M.U., Zarvić, N.   +2 more
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Technical-economic aspects of the use of technological process of deforming broaching [PDF]

, 2020
The article gives a definition of the technical and economic potential of the application of the deforming broaching process. Research of the consequences of introducing deforming broaching into technological processes at manufacturing enterprises is ...
Sardak, Sergii, Y. Nemyrovskyi, E. Posvyatenko, S. Sardak   +1 more
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The (Glg)ABCs of cyanobacteria: modelling of glycogen synthesis and functional divergence of glycogen synthases in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee, Dimitrios Bekiari, Sofia Doello, Karl Forchhammer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of four value sets derived using different TTO and DCE approaches: application to the new region-specific PBM, AP-7D

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Background AP-7D is a newly developed preference-based measure (PBM) in East and Southeast Asia. However, no value set has been established yet. Comparison of the characteristics of value sets obtained by different methods is necessary to consider the ...
Takeru Shiroiwa, Tatsunori Murata, Yasuhiro Morii, Eri Hoshino, Takashi Fukuda   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source