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Estimating the broader fiscal consequences of acute hepatic porphyria (AHP) with recurrent attacks in Belgium using a public economic analytic framework

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2021
Background Acute hepatic porphyria (AHP) is a rare, debilitating disease characterized by potentially life-threatening attacks often resulting in chronic symptoms that negatively impact daily functioning and quality of life.
Mark P. Connolly, Nikos Kotsopoulos, Sebastian Vermeersch, Julien Patris, David Cassiman   +4 more
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Health related quality of life utility weights for economic evaluation through different stages of chronic kidney disease: a systematic literature review

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2020
Background A Task Force from the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) provides recommendations on how to systematically identify and appraise health state utility (HSU) weights for cost-effectiveness analyses.
Jacie T. Cooper, Andrew Lloyd, Juan Jose Garcia Sanchez, Elisabeth Sörstadius, Andrew Briggs, Phil McFarlane   +5 more
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Understanding Patient Perspectives of the Impact of Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease: A United States Patient Survey

Journal of Patient Experience, 2022
Anemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with reduced health-related quality of life and physical functioning. This study investigated knowledge and awareness of anemia in patients with CKD in the United States (US) through an online ...
Susan Grandy PhD, MBA, Eirini Palaka PharmD, Nicolas Guzman MD, Alicia Dunn BA, Eric T. Wittbrodt PharmD, Fredric O. Finkelstein MD   +5 more
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Preference for sublingual immunotherapy with tablets in a Spanish population with allergic rhinitis

Clinical and Translational Allergy, 2022
Background This study investigated patients' preference for allergy immunotherapy (AIT) administered as either sublingual immunotherapy‐tablets versus monthly or weekly subcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT) from a Spanish patient perspective.
Mette Bøgelund, Ana Rosado Ingelmo, Jose María Ausín Ruiz, Adolfo Galán Vivó, Henrik Brandi, Mikkel Hasse Pedersen, Anne Sofie Ledgaard Loftager, Mark Aagren   +7 more
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Estimating the Fiscal Consequences of National Immunization Programs Using a “Government Perspective” Public Economic Framework

Vaccines, 2020
Infectious diseases can impose considerable mortality and morbidity for children and adult populations resulting in both short- and long-term fiscal costs for government.
Mark P. Connolly, Nikolaos Kotsopoulos
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Acting on the call for cervical cancer elimination: Planning tools for low- and middle- income countries to increase the coverage and effectiveness of screening and treatment

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Introduction Accessible planning tools tailored for low-and middle-income countries can assist decision makers in comparing implementation of different cervical cancer screening approaches and treatment delivery scenarios in settings with high cervical ...
Tara Herrick, Kerry A. Thomson, Michelle Shin, Sarah Gannon, Vivien Tsu, Silvia de Sanjosé   +5 more
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Hepatitis B vaccination uptake in hard-to-reach populations in London: a cross-sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background In the UK, hepatitis B virus (HBV) incidence is associated with migrants from particular high-burden countries and population groups deemed ‘hard-to-reach’ by standard healthcare services: the homeless, people who inject drugs and ex-prisoners.
Josephine E. B. Taylor, Julian Surey, Jennifer MacLellan, Marie Francis, Ibrahim Abubakar, Helen R. Stagg   +5 more
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Methodology of Natsal-COVID Wave 1: a large, quasi-representative survey with qualitative follow-up measuring the impact of COVID-19 on sexual and reproductive health in Britain [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

Wellcome Open Research, 2022
Background: Britain’s National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal) have been undertaken decennially since 1990 and provide a key data source underpinning sexual and reproductive health (SRH) policy.
Andrew J Copas, Pam Sonnenberg, Emily Dema, Anne Conolly, Soazig Clifton, Julie Riddell, Margaret Blake, Clare Tanton, Raquel Boso Perez, Catherine H Mercer, Chris Bonell, Nigel Field, Kirstin R Mitchell   +12 more
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IoT-TaaS: Towards a Prospective IoT Testing Framework

IEEE Access, 2018
The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to change many aspects of people’s daily lives by extending the scope of computing to the physical world, and thus shift the environment of computing more to a distributed and decentralized form. The amount of IoT
Hiun Kim, Abbas Ahmad, Jaeyoung Hwang, Hamza Baqa, Franck Le Gall, Miguel Angel Reina Ortega, JaeSeung Song   +6 more
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Long-term real-world effectiveness of allergy immunotherapy in patients with allergic rhinitis and asthma: Results from the REACT study, a retrospective cohort study.

The Lancet Regional Health. Europe, 2022
Summary: Background: Allergen immunotherapy (AIT) is the only causal treatment for respiratory allergy. Long-term real-life effectiveness of AIT remains to be demonstrated beyond the evidence from randomised controlled trials (RCTs).
Benedikt Fritzsching, Marco Contoli, Celeste Porsbjerg, Sarah Buchs, Julie Rask Larsen, Lisa Elliott, Mercedes Romano Rodriguez, Nick Freemantle   +7 more
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