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Cost-effectiveness of chemotherapy for advanced and recurrent cervical cancer: a systematic review

Frontiers in Health Services
IntroductionAdvanced and recurrent cervical cancer often requires palliative chemotherapy and is associated with poor prognosis. Recently, various systemic therapies—including cytotoxic drugs, anti-angiogenic agents, and immune checkpoint inhibitors—have
Katsuaki Inami
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Are General Practitioners Good for Endogenous Supply and Health [PDF]

We investigate the impact of area general practitioner (GP) supply on individual health in England. If no allowance is made for the endogeneity of GP supply, the effect is positive but not statistically significant.
Hugh Gravelle, Matt Sutton, Stephen Morris   +2 more
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Predicting Epileptogenic Tubers in Patients With Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Using a Fusion Model Integrating Lesion Network Mapping and Machine Learning

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Accurate localization of epileptogenic tubers (ETs) in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is essential but challenging, as these tubers lack distinct pathological or genetic markers to differentiate them from other cortical tubers.
Tinghong Liu, Qi Wang, Suhui Kuang, Dezhi Cao, Ping Ding, Shaohui Zhang, Haihua Wei, Zhirong Wei, Jinshan Xu, Xinyu Huang, Bing Liu, Shuli Liang   +11 more
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Putting the quality into quality-adjusted life years [PDF]

Journal of Public Health, 2003
Over recent decades, a great deal of effort has been devoted towards developing instruments that can be used to elicit health state values. All of these instruments are conceptually very different from one another and all suffer from serious inherent biases.
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The consequences of delaying insulin initiation in UK type 2 diabetes patients failing oral hyperglycaemic agents: a modelling study [PDF]

, 2009
Background Recent data have shown that type 2 diabetes patients in the UK delay initiating insulin on average for over 11 years after first being prescribed an oral medication.
Gordon Goodall, Eric M Sarpong, Clarice Hayes, William J Valentine, American Diabetes Association, B Jonsson, R Williams, A Liebl, D Wanless, Y Ohkubo, The DCCT Research Group, The UK Prospective Diabetes Study Group, The UK Prospective Diabetes Study Group, The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial-Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications Research Group, ML Lawson, IM Stratton, The ADVANCE Collaboration Group, E Selvin, American Diabetes Association, HC Gerstein, DM Nathan, DG Marrero, MJ Calvert, MJ Calvert, AJ Palmer, AJ Palmer, P Clarke, C Mathers, TO Tengs, National Institute for Clinical Excellence, RR Holman, H Yki-Jarvinen, MN Cook, A Rubino, LG Mellbin, K Malmberg, SL Bowker, LG Hemkens, U Smith, SH Saydah, GT Higgins, C Bebb, M Peyrot, A Phillips   +43 more
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Life‐Threatening Bradycardia in Anti‐NMDA‐Receptor Encephalitis and a Novel Use for Permanent Pacing

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric anti‐NMDA receptor encephalitis (pNMDARE) is an autoantibody‐mediated disorder that can cause severe autonomic dysfunction, including symptomatic bradycardia and asystole. Dysautonomia can last for years, making it very challenging to manage.
Sarah Tucker, Abhijit Das, Andres Jimenez, Areeba Basit, Yike Jiang, Emily A. Smitherman, Heather Van Mater, Taylor Howard, Alexander J. Sandweiss, Kristen S. Fisher   +9 more
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Weighting and valuing quality-adjusted life-years using stated preference methods: preliminary results from the Social Value of a QALY Project

Health Technology Assessment, 2010
Objectives: To identify characteristics of beneficiaries of health care over which relative weights should be derived and to estimate relative weights to be attached to health gains according to characteristics of recipients of these gains (relativities ...
R Baker, I Bateman, C Donaldson, M Jones-Lee, E Lancsar, G Loomes, H Mason, M Odejar, JL Pinto Prades, A Robinson, M Ryan, P Shackley, R Smith, R Sugden, J Wildman   +14 more
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Impact of type 2 diabetes treated with non-insulin medication and number of diabetes-coexisting diseases on EQ-5D-5 L index scores in the Finnish population

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2019
Background Type 2 diabetes (T2D) causes significant health and economic burden. In addition to comorbidities there are also coexisting diseases linked to obesity, lifestyle and T2D.
Kari Jalkanen, Emma Aarnio, Piia Lavikainen, Hanna-Mari Jauhonen, Hannes Enlund, Janne Martikainen   +5 more
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Live Long, Live Well: Quantifying the Health of Heterogenous Populations [PDF]

Various health-, quality-, and disability-adjusted life year or life expectancy (HALY, QALY, DALY; HALE, QALE, DALE) measures have become gold standards for defining outcomes in technology evaluation, population health monitoring, and other evaluative ...
John Mullahy
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Discrete Event Simulation for Decision Modeling in Health Care: Lessons from Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening [PDF]

, 2017
Markov models are often used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of new healthcare interventions but they are sometimes not flexible enough to allow accurate modeling or investigation of alternative scenarios and policies.
Bown, MJ, Glover, MJ, Jones, E, Masconi, KL, Powell, JT, Sweeting, MJ, Thompson, SG, Ulug, P   +7 more
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