Evaluating Hospital Efficiency Adjusting for Quality Indicators: an Application to Portuguese NHS Hospitals [PDF]
The objective of this paper is to develop a methodology to incorporate measures of hospital quality in efficiency analysis, applied to Portuguese NHS hospitals, in order to assess whether there is a trade-off between efficiency and quality in Portuguese ...
: Álvaro Almeida, José Pedro Fique
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Impact of public vs. private insurance coverage on quality of life of women with early-stage estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. [PDF]
Laperche-Santos D +19 more
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Impact of drug-resistance diagnosis based on whole-genome sequencing on the treatment adequacy of patients with drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis in the state of São Paulo, Brazil: a protocol for a non-randomised controlled trial (Gen-TB PróCura). [PDF]
Rosa CD +22 more
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ROSA, João Guimarães; BIZZARRI, Edoardo. João Guimarães Rosa: Correspondência com seu tradutor italiano Edoardo Bizzarri [PDF]
Dasilva, Xosé Manuel
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How R&D and tax incentives influence economic growth: Econometric study for the period between 1995 and 2008 of EU-15 [PDF]
Setting targets to increase the levels of R&D, a component that is present in the political and economic agendas of the European Member States with the promotion of active tax policies, suggests that it is possible for R&D to cause an impact on economic ...
Elísio Fernando Moreira Brandão +2 more
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Correction: Peri-intubation adverse events and clinical outcomes in emergency department patients: the BARCO study. [PDF]
Maia IWA +37 more
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Top ranking economics journals impact variability and a ranking update to the year 2002 [PDF]
In this paper I address four questions concerning the quality of scientific economic papers. First, I validate the ex-ante procedure of computing the average impact of economic papers by comparing its results with the expost values.
Pedro C. Vieira
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Scalloped tongue: an additional, accessible and useful tool to detect severe obstructive sleep apnea? [PDF]
Guimarães FN +7 more
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A Diagnostic Puzzle: Unveiling Tuberculosis Peritonitis in an Immunocompromised Patient. [PDF]
Pereira A +4 more
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Price discrimination and targeted advertising: a welfare analysis [PDF]
We present a monopolistic model of price discrimination by means of targeted informative advertising. Targeting is defined as the ability of the monopolistic to direct messages with differentiated contents to groups of buyers with different valuations ...
Paulo Guimaraes, Rosa Branca Esteves
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