ABSTRACT Objective Many countries have implemented health technology assessment of their public medical insurance programs owing to rising social security costs from ageing populations and expensive emerging medical technologies. Clarifying factors that affect health utility scores is essential for implementing treatments that reflect social values ...
Masashi Sasaki +7 more
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Effect of speaking valves on early mobilization of patients in intensive care units following tracheostomy: a prospective randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
Chen Y +6 more
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Targeting driver and structural vertebrae via LLIF is an effective, minimally invasive strategy for ADS. It offers substantial deformity correction, symptom relief, and progressive postoperative self‐correction while significantly reducing surgical trauma compared to traditional long‐segment fusions.
Tianyong Wen +7 more
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Qualitative testing of potential modifications to the EQ-HWB EMV2.1 in adults with mobility problems in the United Kingdom. [PDF]
Moolla A, Carlton J, Peasgood T.
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Measuring the Effects of Workloss on Productivity With Team Production [PDF]
Using data from a survey of 800 managers in 12 industries, we find empirical support for the hypothesis that the cost associated with missed work varies across jobs according to the ease with which a manager can find a perfect replacement for the absent ...
Sean Nicholson +4 more
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Impact of social deprivation and ethnicity on patient-reported outcome measures in primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty. [PDF]
Archer JE +4 more
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Case‐Mix Adjustment of Multidimensional Patient‐Reported Outcomes to Assess Hospital Performance
ABSTRACT Multidimensional patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly used to compare the performance of health care providers. Meaningful comparisons require the data to be adjusted for differences in case‐mix. The common approach in the literature is to aggregate PROM data into univariate summary scores prior to case‐mix adjustment. In
Nils Gutacker, Yuanyuan Gu
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Reliability and validity of the Turkish EQ-5D-5L in adults living with HIV. [PDF]
Balık R, Ceran N.
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ABSTRACT Background Patient‐important outcomes beyond mortality, particularly health‐related quality of life (HRQoL), are frequently used in intensive care unit (ICU) trials. However, HRQoL assessment remains challenging due to methodological complexities, including poorly defined recovery trajectories, lack of consensus on measurement instruments ...
Elisa Zoe Battistelli +6 more
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Effects of a brief primary care intervention for post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms after critical illness on health-related quality of life - A secondary analysis of the PICTURE randomised controlled trial. [PDF]
Kosilek RP +10 more
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