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Sensors, 2022 Wooden utility poles are one of the most commonly used utility carriers in North America. Even though they are given different protection treatments, wooden utility poles are prone to have defects that are mainly caused by temperature, oxygen, moisture ...
Xiaoli Zhang +3 more
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Situating care in mainstream health economics: an ethical dilemma? [PDF]
, 2014 Standard health economics concentrates on the provision of care by medical professionals. Yet ‘care’ receives scant analysis; it is portrayed as a spillover effect or externality in the form of interdependent utility functions.
Davis, John B., McMaster, Robert
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Evaluation of Societal Health Utility of Facial Palsy and Facial Reanimation
JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, 2018 Importance The severity of a health state may be quantified using health utility measures. The utility of flaccid unilateral facial paralysis and unilateral moderate to severe postparalytic facial nerve syndrome with synkinesis may be challenging to ...
C. Faris +4 more
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Pathogenic Germline PALB2 and RAD50 Variants in Patients With Relapsed Ewing Sarcoma
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Approximately 10% of patients with Ewing sarcoma (EwS) have pathogenic germline variants. Here, we report two cases: first, a novel germline pathogenic variant in partner and localizer of BRCA2 (PALB2) in a patient with a late EwS relapse. Its impact on homologous recombination is demonstrated, and breast cancer risk is discussed.
Molly Mack +12 more
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Quality of life measures and health utility values among dry eye subgroups
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2018 BackgroundTo determine whether quality of life (QOL) and health utility are affected to the same extent among dry eye (DE) patients with short tear film break-up time dry eye (TBUT-DE) with minimal clinical signs were as severe as aqueous-deficient dry ...
C. Shigeyasu +7 more
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Estimation of utility weights for major liver diseases according to disease severity in Korea
BMC Gastroenterology, 2017 Background The global burden of liver diseases, such as hepatocellular carcinoma and liver cirrhosis, is substantial. In this study, we estimated utility weights of liver disease-related health states in the general population using a visual analogue ...
Minsu Ock +4 more
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JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, 2018 Importance Androgenetic alopecia is a highly prevalent condition across both sexes and can be surgically corrected through hair transplant. Health utility scores, which represent quantitative estimates of individual preferences for a given state of ...
N. Abt +5 more
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Developmental Disorders in Children Recently Diagnosed With Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Neurocognitive deficits in adult survivors of childhood cancer are well established, but less is known about developmental disorders (DD) arising shortly after cancer diagnosis. Using 2016–2019 linked Ohio cancer registry and Medicaid data, we compared DD among 324 children with cancer and 606,913 cancer‐free controls.
Jamie Shoag +5 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background B‐acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, and while most children in high‐resource settings are cured, therapy carries risks for long‐term toxicities. Understanding parents’ concerns about these late effects is essential to guide anticipatory support and inform evolving therapeutic approaches ...
Kellee N. Parker +7 more
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Current OncologyBackground: EQ-5D-3L health utilities inform health technology assessments in oncology, often derived from clinical trials enrolling highly selected populations, which may over-estimate real-world health utilities.
Teresa C. O. Tsui +3 more
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