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Conditional Cash Transfer to Improve TB Outcomes: Necessary but Not Sufficient; Comment on “Does Direct Benefit Transfer Improve Outcomes Among People With Tuberculosis? – A Mixed-Methods Study on the Need for a Review of the Cash Transfer Policy in India” [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2023
Tuberculosis (TB) still represents a major public health problem in many regions of the world. TB control can only be achieved through a comprehensive and inclusive response which takes into account both upstream and downstream coordinated interventions ...
Fernando Rubinstein, Alejandro Blumenfeld   +1 more
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Cost effectiveness analysis of afatinib versus pemetrexed-cisplatin for first-line treatment of locally advanced or metastatic EGFR mutation positive non-small-cell lung cancer from the Singapore healthcare payer’s perspective

BMC Cancer, 2018
Background Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for 85% of all lung cancers and is associated with a poor prognosis. Afatinib is an irreversible ErbB family blocker recommended in clinical guidelines as a first-line treatment for NSCLC which ...
Ping-Tee Tan, Mohamed Ismail Abdul Aziz, Fiona Pearce, Wan-Teck Lim, David Bin-Chia Wu, Kwong Ng   +5 more
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Sugar sweetened beverages attributable disease burden and the potential impact of policy interventions: a systematic review of epidemiological and decision models

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Around 184,000 deaths per year could be attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) consumption worldwide. Epidemiological and decision models are important tools to estimate disease burden.
Andrea Alcaraz, Andrés Pichon-Riviere, Alfredo Palacios, Ariel Bardach, Dario Javier Balan, Lucas Perelli, Federico Augustovski, Agustín Ciapponi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) 7: supporting staff in evidence-based decision-making, implementation and evaluation in a local healthcare setting

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background This is the seventh in a series of papers reporting Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) in a local healthcare setting.
Claire Harris, Kelly Allen, Cara Waller, Tim Dyer, Vanessa Brooke, Marie Garrubba, Angela Melder, Catherine Voutier, Anthony Gust, Dina Farjou   +9 more
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Study protocol: maintaining preventive care during public health emergencies through effective coordination

Implementation Science Communications, 2023
Background Screening lies at the heart of preventive care. However, COVID-19 dramatically disrupted routine screening efforts, resulting in excess mortality not directly attributable to COVID-19.
Sylvia J. Hysong, Traber Davis Giardina, Jennifer Freytag, Richard SoRelle, Daniel R. Murphy, Jeffrey A. Cully, Yvonne H. Sada, Amber B. Amspoker   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the care received by patients with oesophago-gastric (OG) cancer: the richer picture provided by linked datasets

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2017
Objectives The national oesophago-gastric cancer audit evaluates the care given to patients with OG cancer diagnosed in England and Wales, identifying areas for local services to improve and so achieve better patient outcomes.
Christian Brand, Mira Varagunam, Georgina Chadwick, David Cromwell   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improving the monitoring of chronic heart failure in Argentina: is the implantable pulmonary artery pressure with CardioMEMS Heart Failure System cost-effective?

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2021
Background The CardioMEMS® sensor is a wireless pulmonary artery pressure device used for monitoring symptomatic heart failure (HF). The use of CardioMEMS was associated with a reduction of hospitalizations of HF patients, but the acquisition cost could ...
Andrea Alcaraz, Carlos Rojas-Roque, Daniela Prina, Juan Martín González, Andrés Pichon-Riviere, Federico Augustovski, Alfredo Palacios   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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...
openaire   +3 more sources

Effectiveness of catch-up and at-birth nirsevimab immunisation against RSV hospital admission in the first year of life: a population-based case–control study, Spain, 2023/24 season

Eurosurveillance
Background Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes substantial morbidity in infants 
the Nirsevimab Effectiveness Study Collaborators
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of atezolizumab in advanced triple-negative breast cancer

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background The IMpassion130 trial demonstrated that adding atezolizumab to nanoparticle albumin-bound (nab)-paclitaxel improved the survival of patients with untreated, advanced, programmed death ligand 1 (PDL1)-positive triple-negative breast cancer ...
Lee Cheng Phua, Soo Chin Lee, Kwong Ng, Mohamed Ismail Abdul Aziz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source