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

open access: yesInternational 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sugar sweetened beverages attributable disease burden and the potential impact of policy interventions: a systematic review of epidemiological and decision models

open access: yesBMC 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   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

When the placebo effect is not an effect [PDF]

open access: yesActa 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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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

open access: yesEurosurveillance
Background Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes substantial morbidity in infants 
the Nirsevimab Effectiveness Study Collaborators
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?

open access: yesCost 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   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness Is the Key to Cost-Effectiveness [PDF]

open access: yesCirculation, 2013
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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

How effective is the effective potential?

open access: yesNuclear Physics B, 1993
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
openaire   +2 more sources

Factors affecting Mathematics achievement of first-year secondary school students in Central Uganda

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Education, 2015
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
doaj   +1 more source

Cost-effectiveness analysis of atezolizumab in advanced triple-negative breast cancer

open access: yesBMC 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the ability of an instrumental variable causal forest algorithm to personalize treatment evidence using observational data: the case of early surgery for shoulder fracture

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology, 2022
Background Comparative effectiveness research (CER) using observational databases has been suggested to obtain personalized evidence of treatment effectiveness.
John M. Brooks   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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