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QALYs and Policy Evaluation: A New Perspective [PDF]
, 2005 “QALYs” (Quality-Adjusted Life Years) are a metric for health and longevity very widely employed by health researchers. Surveys are used to assign health states a quality ranking on zero-one scale, with zero representing a health state no better than ...
Adler, Matthew D., Adler, Matthew D
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Chronic stress reshapes the gut microbiota and enriches Lactobacillus reuteri, promoting microbiota‐associated kynurenine accumulation through altered tryptophan metabolism. Kynurenine drives immunosuppressive remodeling of tumor‐associated macrophages through TNFR2–C/EBPβ signaling, thereby enhancing gastric cancer dissemination.
Sicheng Zhao +9 more
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Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute, 2023 Background The prevalence of head and neck cancer (HNC) is increasing rapidly, and the prognosis is poor in the advance stage. For the patient suffering from advance stage HNC, the improvement in quality of life and decrease mortality remain as the ...
Avinash Khadela +4 more
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Advanced Energy Materials, Volume 15, Issue 11, March 18, 2025.A closed‐loop, data‐driven approach facilitates the exploration of high‐performance Si─Ge─Sn alloys as promising fast‐charging battery anodes. Autonomous electrochemical experimentation using a scanning droplet cell is combined with real‐time optimization to efficiently navigate composition space.
Alexey Sanin +7 more
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Controversies around QALYs [PDF]
Vnitřní lékařství, 2017 The paper summarizes the criticisms of the QALY concept utilization in health-economic evaluations that has been growing stronger in the last years. Despite of its limitations, the QALY concept has been routinely used in many countries incl. the Czech Republic.
Vladimír, Rogalewicz, Miroslav, Barták
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Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.Direct seawater electrolysis using anion exchange membranes is emerging as a promising route for sustainable hydrogen production. This review summarizes multiscale design strategies from seawater chemistry and OER–ClER selectivity to catalysts, membranes, MEAs, cells, stacks, and system integration, providing a roadmap toward selective, durable, and ...
Chiho Kim +7 more
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Modeling test and treatment strategies for presymptomatic Alzheimer disease. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 OBJECTIVES:In this study, we developed a model of presymptomatic treatment of Alzheimer disease (AD) after a screening diagnostic evaluation and explored the circumstances required for an AD prevention treatment to produce aggregate net population ...
James F Burke +3 more
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Current Status and Future Perspectives of Robotic Surgery for Esophagogastric Cancer in Asia
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Robotic‐assisted surgery (RAS) has moved from an experimental adjunct to an increasingly established component of gastrointestinal (GI) oncological practice in parts of Asia, a region that carries a disproportionately high burden of gastric and esophageal cancer. Asian surgeons have been among the earliest and most prolific contributors to the
Jia Jun Ang, Jimmy Bok Yan So
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Clinical benefit and cost effectiveness of total knee arthroplasty in the older patient
European Journal of Medical Research, 2009 Purpose Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is an effective, but also cost-intensive health care procedure for the elderly. Furthermore, bearing demographic changes in Western Europe in mind, TKA-associated financial investment for health care insurers will ...
Krummenauer F +3 more
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