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Cost-effectiveness of dienogest compared to gonadotropin releasing hormone agonists for the management of endometriosis in Vietnam

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
Objectives Endometriosis-related dysmenorrhea and pelvic pain impose significant economic and quality-of-life burdens. This study evaluated the cost-effectiveness of dienogest compared to gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRH-a) for managing ...
Mai Thi Tuyet Kieu, Minh Hong Le, Chi Phuong Nguyen   +2 more
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular events among patients with type 2 diabetes in China.

PLoS ONE, 2019
The use of aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with lower rates of cardiovascular events but increased risks of bleeding complications.
Minghuan Jiang, Pengchao Li, Joyce Hoi-Sze You, Xinglong Zheng, Jizhao Deng, Mingyue Zhao, Liuxin Feng, Yu Fang   +7 more
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Preferences, needs and QALYs. [PDF]

Journal of Medical Ethics, 1996
Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) have become a household word among health economists. Their use as a means of comparing the value of health programmes and medical interventions has stirred up controversy in the medical profession and the academic community.
openaire   +3 more sources

Valuing qalys at the end of life [PDF]

There have been changes in the way that NICE evaluates medical treatments for patients who are in the last stages of their lives. If medicines fulfil some criteria to be considered “end of life” NICE considers if QALYs gained under these circumstances ...
Belen Corbacho, Jose Luis Pinto Prades, Fernando Sanchez Martínez   +2 more
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A Language‐Guided Multimodal Foundation Model for Zero‐Shot and Multi‐Task Brain Signal Analysis

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
METIS aligns brain signals with natural‐language instructions to enable zero‐shot and multi‐task brain signal analysis. Pretrained on over 70 000 h of EEG and iEEG recordings, it generalizes across sleep stage classification, epilepsy detection, and neurological disorder diagnosis, providing a scalable foundation model for clinically meaningful brain ...
Mingzhi Chen, Yiyu Gui, Guibo Luo, Yuchao Yang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of medical resources and costs among patients with coronary heart disease and impaired glucose tolerance in the Acarbose Cardiovascular Evaluation trial

Journal of Diabetes
Background The Acarbose Cardiovascular Evaluation (ACE) trial (ISRCTN91899513) evaluated the alpha‐glucosidase inhibitor acarbose, compared with placebo, in 6522 patients with coronary heart disease and impaired glucose tolerance in China and showed a ...
Liam Mc Morrow, Frauke Becker, Ruth L. Coleman, Hertzel C. Gerstein, Lars Rydén, Stefan Schöder, Alastair M. Gray, Jose Leal, Rury R. Holman, for the ACE Study Group   +9 more
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Willingness to pay and QALYs: What can we learn about valuing foodborne risk? [PDF]

This study examines the value of reducing foodborne risk. Research on the valuation of health risk has been dominated by the study of mortality risk.
Hammitt, James, Sundström, Kristian, Andersson, Henrik   +2 more
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A Generalizable Framework for Building Executable Domain‐Specific Large Language Models Under Data Scarcity: Demonstration on Semiconductor Technology Computer‐Aided Design Simulation

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A schema‐first alignment framework builds compact, executable domain‐specific language models under data scarcity. Large‐scale synthetic question‐answer generation instills domain knowledge, and a code‐centric IR‐to‐DPO pipeline aligns generation with tool‐executable syntax.
Di Wang, Zhenhua Wu, Yu Liu, Kai Chang, Shaohua Wu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Proposal and Application of Quality-adjusted Life Years

Yixue yu zhexue
Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) is a quantitative health measure that integrates both life expectancy and quality, proposed in the 1970s as an effective tool for aiding the rational allocation of healthcare resources while balancing efficiency and ...
Yixuan LI
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Efficient use of health care resources: The interaction between improved health and reduced health related income loss [PDF]

Cost effectiveness is a criterion that is often recommended for prioritizing between different types of health care. A modified use of this criterion can be justified as the outcome of a choice that is made “behind a veil of ignorance”.
Hoel, Michael
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