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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 +3 more
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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 +7 more
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When the placebo effect is not an effect [PDF]
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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Background Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes substantial morbidity in infants
the Nirsevimab Effectiveness Study Collaborators
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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 +6 more
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Effectiveness Is the Key to Cost-Effectiveness [PDF]
Health care spending has risen faster than the rest of the United States economy for the past several decades, and is now swamping federal and state government budgets. The rising cost of health care has important consequences: either spending on other programs (eg, education, public safety, and infrastructure) must be reduced, or taxes must rise, or ...
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How effective is the effective potential?
Motivated by bubble nucleation in first order phase transitions, we question the validity of the effective potential for inhomogeneous configurations. In an attempt to get some insight into the importance of derivative terms, we analyze a simple model, a kink in (1+1) dimensions and zero temperature.
Dodelson, Scott, Gradwohl, Ben-Ami
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Factors affecting Mathematics achievement of first-year secondary school students in Central Uganda
This study explores the sources of variability in Mathematics achievement of Ugandan students at the student, classroom and school level. The Mathematics score and questionnaire responses of 4,819 first-year secondary school students (Grade Seven, about ...
Henry Nsubuga Kiwanuka +4 more
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of atezolizumab in advanced triple-negative breast cancer
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 +3 more
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Background Comparative effectiveness research (CER) using observational databases has been suggested to obtain personalized evidence of treatment effectiveness.
John M. Brooks +5 more
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