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A comparison of health utility scores calculated using United Kingdom and Canadian preference weights in persons with alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2016
BackgroundThe use of the EQ-5D to asses the economic benefits of health technologies has led to questions about the cross-population transferability of preference weights to calculate health utility scores. The aim of this study is to investigate whether
Mingying Fang, M. Oremus, J. Tarride, P. Raina   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Efficacy and Safety Analysis of Roxarestat in Regulating Renal Anemia in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of roxarestat versus recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in the management of renal anemia in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. Methods This was a prospective, open‐label, randomized controlled trial.
Lingling Chen, Junjie Zhu, Qiaonan Ge
wiley   +1 more source

The demand for health insurance in a multirisk context [PDF]

Using a model of bivariate decision under risk, we analyse the health insurance demand when there are two sources of risk: a health risk and an uninsurable one. We examine how the uninsurable risk affects the coverage of the health risk. We show that the
Mohamed Anouar Razgallah
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UTILIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE HEALTH OF COMMUNITY HEALTH

PROMOTIF: Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat, 2018
The era of globalization is now progressing very rapidly. One of the advances in information technology penetrated the health field. Use and utilization of this technology is one of the right solutions for problem solving public services. At least utilization of it will address the geographical, time and socioeconomic issues.
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The validity of the Child Health Utility instrument (CHU9D) as a routine outcome measure for use in child and adolescent mental health services

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2015
BackgroundFew cost-utility studies of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) use quality adjusted life years (a combination of utility weights and time in health state) as the outcome to enable comparison across disparate programs and ...
Gareth Furber, L. Segal
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Therapeutic Apheresis for Intravenous Methylprednisolone‐Refractory Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder: Clinical and Radiological Outcomes in a Single‐Center Case Series

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is a relapsing autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. High‐dose intravenous methylprednisolone (IVMP) is the standard first‐line therapy for acute attacks, although some patients remain refractory.
Wataru Horiguchi, Daisuke Katagiri, Takeyuki Watadani, Shunichi Matsuda, Hiroshi Kaneko, Noritoshi Arai   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Utility-preserving anonymization for health data publishing

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2017
Background Publishing raw electronic health records (EHRs) may be considered as a breach of the privacy of individuals because they usually contain sensitive information.
Hyukki Lee, Soohyung Kim, Jong Wook Kim, Yon Dohn Chung   +3 more
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An assessment of validity and responsiveness of generic measures of health-related quality of life in hearing impairment [PDF]

, 2013
This article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...
A Vuorialho, A Vuorialho, AK Cheng, AS Pickard, BG Bichey, CA Marra, CS Palmer, D Feeny, D Feeny, D Papaioannou, DL Streiner, DS Dalton, G Hawthorne, G Kobelt, GR Barton, GR Barton, GW Torrance, GWJA Damen, HY Lee, J Brazier, J Brazier, J Brazier, JE Brazier, JE Brazier, John Brazier, JPC Grutters, L Longworth, L Smith-Olinde, Louise Longworth, M Joore, MA Joore, MA Joore, MAB Joore, MKS Hol, P Dolan, PFM Krabbe, PK Sand, R Brooks, R Harper, RES Lovett, TH Sach, Y Yang, Yaling Yang   +42 more
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Effects of the Fluid Replacement Method During Online Hemodiafiltration on the Solute Removal Performance and Biocompatibility Using the Asymmetric Cellulose Triacetate Membrane

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pre‐dilution online hemodiafiltration (Pre‐HDF) is predominantly used in Japan, whereas post‐dilution online HDF (Post‐HDF) is more common in Europe. An asymmetric cellulose triacetate (ATA) membrane may improve biocompatibility.
Kenji Sakurai, Yoshitaka Kurihara, Fumi Yamauchi, Hiromi Hosoya, Takeshi Saito   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF MICROPROCESSOR-CONTROLLED PROSTHETIC KNEES IN THE DUTCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: THE IMPACT OF STUDY DURATION ON OUTCOMES

Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal
A previous health-utility analysis of microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knees (MPKs) in the Netherlands used a very short evaluation period of only 6 months resulting in an extremely high incremental cost-utility ratio (ICUR) of €457,063 per quality ...
Alexander Kuhlmann, Andreas Kannenberg
doaj   +1 more source