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Cost, Effectiveness, and Cost-Effectiveness [PDF]

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2009
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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Organisation and delivery of supportive services for patients with prostate cancer in the National Health Service in England and Wales: a national cross-sectional hospital survey and latent class analysis

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives We assessed how often National Health Service (NHS) hospitals reported that they had specific supportive services for patients with prostate cancer available onsite, including nursing support, sexual function and urinary continence services ...
Melanie Morris, Ajay Aggarwal, Jan van der Meulen, Noel Clarke, Adrian Cook, Heather Ann Payne, Joanna Dodkins, Julie Nossiter, Steve Prust, Steve Waller   +9 more
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When the placebo effect is not an effect [PDF]

Acta Orthopaedica, 2021
In this issue of the journal, Rosen et al. report the results of a survey of surgeons regarding placebo effects.1 In particular, they show that surgeons consider “non-specific” effects (including a...
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The effectiveness of the linear hull effect [PDF]

Journal of Mathematical Cryptology, 2012
Abstract. There is no linear hull effect in linear cryptanalysis.
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Acceptability and feasibility of video-based coaching to enhance clinicians’ communication skills with patients

BMC Medical Education, 2022
Background Despite a growing call to train clinicians in interpersonal communication skills, communication training is either not offered or is minimally effective, if at all.
Jennifer Freytag, Jinna Chu, Sylvia J. Hysong, Richard L. Street, Christine M. Markham, Thomas P. Giordano, Robert A. Westbrook, Sarah Njue-Marendes, Syundai R. Johnson, Bich N. Dang   +9 more
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Covid-19 transmission in fitness centers in Norway - a randomized trial

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Closed fitness centers during the Covid-19 pandemic may negatively impact health and wellbeing. We assessed whether training at fitness centers increases the risk of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection.
Lise M. Helsingen, Magnus Løberg, Erle Refsum, Dagrun Kyte Gjøstein, Paulina Wieszczy, Ørjan Olsvik, Frederik E. Juul, Ishita Barua, Henriette C. Jodal, Magnhild Herfindal, Yuichi Mori, Solveig Jore, Fridtjof Lund-Johansen, Atle Fretheim, Michael Bretthauer, Mette Kalager, for the TRAiN study group   +16 more
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Initial Results of Secukinumab Drug Survival in Patients with Psoriasis: A Multicentre Daily Practice Cohort Study

Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2018
Interleukin 17-antagonist secukinumab demonstrated high efficacy for treatment of psoriasis in randomized controlled trials. However, performance in daily practice may differ from trials.
Juul M.P.A. van den Reek, Lieke J. van Vugt, Martijn B.A. van Doorn, Gayle E. van der Kraaij, Wim J.A. de Kort, Georges P.H. Lucker, Barbara Horvath, M. David Njoo, H. Jorn Bovenschen, Paul M. Ossenkoppele, Marjolein S. De Bruin-Weller, Marjan de Groot, Roland Mommers, Ruud L.M.A. Prevoo, Peter C.M. van de Kerkhof, Phyllis I. Spuls, Wietske Kievit, Elke M.G.J. de Jong   +17 more
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The Werther Effect, the Papageno Effect or No Effect? A Literature Review [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
This paper examines the association between media reporting on suicides and the subsequent suicides. Scientific papers from two online bibliographic sources Medline (PubMed) and PsycINFO were searched. The sample included 108 research papers examining the impact of different types of media stories on suicides.
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Burden of disease attributable to tobacco use and impact of different taxation schemes in Latin America

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable deaths worldwide. The objective of this study was to estimate the burden of disease attributable to tobacco use and to evaluate the potential impact of increasing cigarette´s price through taxes
Ariel Bardach, Alfredo Palacios, María Belen Rodríguez, Andrea Alcaraz, Agustín Ciapponi, Sacha Virgilio, Federico Augustovski, Andrés Pichón-Riviere   +7 more
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Need and inequality in the use of health care services in a fragmented and decentralized health system: evidence for Argentina

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
Background The high fragmentation and decentralization in the provision of health care services that characterizes Argentina’s health system, as well as the economic and social inequalities, challenge the achievement of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
Alfredo Palacios, Natalia Espinola, Carlos Rojas-Roque   +2 more
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