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Effects of Competition over Quality-Adjusted Price Indexes: An Application to the Spanish Automobile Market [PDF]
Using a newly constructed data set, we calculate quality-adjusted price indexes after estimating hedonic price regressions from 1988 to 2004 in the Spanish automobile market.
Ana Isabel Guerra Hernández
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ABSTRACT Background and Purpose White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are a core neuroimaging marker of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD). Sleep apnoea (SA) is a recognized vascular risk factor, but its associations with regional WMH burden, short‐interval WMH change and cognitive performance in population‐based cohorts remain incompletely defined. We
Peng Cheng +4 more
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Tooth loss and general quality of life in dentate adults from Southern Brazil
Purpose: This study aimed to estimate the association between the number of teeth and general quality of life in adults. Methods: A population-based study was conducted with 1720 individuals aged 20–59 years residing in Florianópolis, Brazil, in 2009 ...
Peres, Karen Glazer +5 more
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Dimethyl Fumarate, But Not Rituximab, Reduces Serum GFAP Levels and PIRMA in Relapsing–Remitting MS
ABSTRACT Objective Serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (sGFAP) levels are believed to reflect mainly acute and chronic disease processes in multiple sclerosis (MS), respectively. In this study, we investigated whether dimethyl fumarate (DMF) and rituximab (RTX) differentially affect these biomarkers.
F. Shawket +14 more
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On the Welfare Economic Foundations of Health Status Measures [PDF]
Measures of health status, such as e.g. the QALY (Quality Adjusted Life Years) measure, have been proposed as a tool in the economic assessment of new medical technologies, and its possible foundations in individual utility theory have been discussed in ...
Hans Keiding, Jens Leth Hougaard
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Annual estimates of influenza-attributed life years lost, quality adjusted life years (QALYs) lost and monetary value of QALYs lost by risk and age group in millions of US Dollars averaged over five respiratory seasons.
Robertus van Aalst (3611738) +4 more
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ABSTRACT Background Collaterals are crucial factors that influence the infarct growth rate (IGR). We aimed to determine whether a comprehensive multimodal collateral score (MCS), incorporating collateral assessment at the arterial, tissue, and venous levels, is associated with functional independence and provides incremental prognostic value over ...
Giorgio Busto +12 more
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Subjective Measures of Well-being [PDF]
well-being, objective, subjective, measurement, quality of life, worth, happiness adjusted life ...
Veenhoven, Ruut
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ABSTRACT Introduction Glucagon‐like peptide‐1 receptor agonists (GLP‐1 RAs) have demonstrated significant weight‐reducing effects and may offer benefits in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH); however, recent concerns about the risk of non‐arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) have emerged.
Faisal A. Al‐Harbi +9 more
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Quality adjusted life years as expected utilities
This article is intended to systematicaly show all the conditions that the Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) must satisfy so that it can be interpreted as a von Newman-Morgenstern utility. Such conditions cover two cases.
José Luis PintoPrades +1 more
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