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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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Oral health of visually impaired schoolchildren in Khartoum State, Sudan [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Although oral health care is a vital component of overall health, it remains one of the greatest unattended needs among the disabled. The aim of this study was to assess the oral health status and oral health-related quality of life (Child ...
Ahmed Eltigani Khogli, Azza Tagelsir, Nazik Mostafa Nurelhuda   +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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Opportunities for improving the efficiency of paediatric HIV treatment programmes [PDF]

, 2015
Objectives: To conduct two economic analyses addressing whether to: routinely monitor HIV-infected children on antiretroviral therapy (ART) clinically or with laboratory tests; continue or stop cotrimoxazole prophylaxis when children become stabilized on
Bakeera-Kitaka, S, Bwakura-Dangarembizi, M, Gibb, DM, Kekitinwa, A, Mabugu, T, Mugyenyi, P, Munderi, P, Musiime, V, Nahirya-Ntege, P, Nathoo, KJ, Revill, PA, Sculpher, MJ, Walker, AS, Walker, S   +13 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
wiley   +1 more source

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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Calidad de vida en pacientes trasplantados renales de una institución prestadora de servicios de salud en Medellín, Colombia [PDF]

, 2017
Introduction: Renal transplantation performed on patients with chronic renal disease (CRD) stage five, is an alternative treatment that prolongs survival, reduces morbidity, accelerate social and medical rehabilitation.
Montoya Hincapié, Sandra M., Paja Becoche, Ruby M., Salas Zapata, Carolina   +2 more
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