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Association of Hair Loss With Health Utility Measurements Before and After Hair Transplant Surgery in Men and Women

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, Olivia E. Quatela, Alyssa Heiser, Nate Jowett, Oren E S Tessler, Linda N. Lee   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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, So Yun Lim, Hyeon-Jeong Lee, Seon-Ha Kim, Min-Woo Jo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Defining Roles in Pediatric Palliative Care: Perspectives From Oncology and Palliative Care Teams

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Early integration of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for children with cancer. Despite this, variation persists in how PPC is understood, operationalized, and integrated within pediatric oncology programs. In particular, ambiguity surrounding
Leeat Granek, Lori Wiener, Stephanie Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Donna Johnston, Fyeza Hasan, Adam Rapoport, Nathasha Datoo, Kimberley Widger, Sumit Gupta, Karen Fergus, Anthony K. C. Chan, Alisha Kassam, Emily McCullogh, Dave Lysecki   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Real-world utilities and health-related quality-of-life data in hemophilia patients in France and the United Kingdom

Patient Preference and Adherence, 2019
Liz Carroll,1 Gary Benson,2 Jérémy Lambert,3 Khadra Benmedjahed,3 Marek Zak,4 Xin Ying Lee51Haemophilia Society, London, UK; 2Northern Ireland Haemophilia Comprehensive Care Centre and Thrombosis Unit, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, UK ...
Carroll L, Benson G, Lambert J, Benmedjahed K, Zak M, Lee XY   +5 more
doaj  

Health care utilization by immigrants in Italy

International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 2012
Healthcare utilization studies show how well documented disparities between migrants and non-migrants. Reducing such disparities is a major goal in European countries. However, healthcare utilization among Italian immigrants is under-studied. The objective of this study is to explore differences in healthcare use between immigrant and native Italians ...
DE LUCA, Giuliana, Ponzo, Michela, Andrés, Antonio Rodríguez   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources

The Role of Invasive Procedures in the Treatment of Complicated Gastrointestinal Graft‐Versus‐Host Disease in Pediatric Patients

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Gastrointestinal graft‐versus‐host disease (GI GVHD) following hematopoietic stem cell transplant is typically managed with medical therapy, but surgery and angioembolization may be warranted in selected cases with life‐threatening complications.
Gaia Brunetti, Giorgio Persano, Chiara Grimaldi, Pier Luigi Di Paolo, Carmen Malaspina, Francesco Quagliarella, Valerio Balassone, Anna Chiara Iolanda Contini, Gian Luigi Natali, Rita Alaggio, Ivan Pietro Aloi, Tamara Caldaro, Alessandro Crocoli   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human health risk assessment of lead in nectarines [PDF]

Acta Agriculturae Serbica, 2018
The aim of the paper was to determine the level of soil contamination with lead and perform risk assessment by calculating the Hazard Quotient Index (HQI).
Šukalić Aida, Ahmetović Nihada, Mačkić Sejad, Čolić Amra, Hero Mehmed   +4 more
doaj  

Systematic review of utility values used in the pharmacoeconomic evaluations for schizophrenia: implications on cost-effectiveness results

Journal of Market Access & Health Policy, 2019
Background and Objectives: Utility elicitation studies for schizophrenia generate different utility values for the same health states. We reviewed utility values used in schizophrenia pharmacoeconomic evaluations and evaluated the impact of their ...
Junwen Zhou, Aurélie Millier, Clément François, Samuel Aballéa, Mondher Toumi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimal tax policy and expected longevity: A mean and variance utility approach [PDF]

This paper studies the normative problem of redistribution between agents who can infuence their survival probability through private health spending, but who differ in their attitude towards the risks involved in the lotteries of life to be chosen.
Grégory Ponthière, Marie-Louise Leroux
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