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A feasibility study for the provision of electronic healthcare tools and services in areas of Greece, Cyprus and Italy [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Through this paper, we present the initial steps for the creation of an integrated platform for the provision of a series of eHealth tools and services to both citizens and travelers in isolated areas of thesoutheast Mediterranean, and on ...
Androulidakis, Aggelos, Bracale, Umberto, Konnis, Georgios, Koutsouris, Dimitrios, Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos, Mougiakakou, Stavroula G., Papadopoulos, Homer, Pattichis, Constantinos S., Pecchia, Leandro, Perakis, Kostas, Tranfaglia, Riccardo   +10 more
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Health technology assessment. Evaluation of biomedical innovative technologies.

IEEE engineering in medicine and biology magazine : the quarterly magazine of the Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, 2010
This article describes health technology assessment (HTA) as an evaluation tool that applies systematic methods of inquiry to the generation and use of health technologies and new products. The focus of this article is on the contributions of HTA to the management of the new product development effort in the biomedical organization.
TURCHETTI, Giuseppe, E. SPADONI, E. GEISLER   +2 more
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A comparison between two recommendations to conduct and report systematic reviews on drug’s safety

Systematic Reviews, 2019
Background Several recommendations are available to conduct and report a systematic review of adverse drug reactions. This study is aimed at identifying and comparing the methodologies of the two most commonly used recommendations to conduct and report ...
Ana Penedones, Carlos Alves, Francisco Batel Marques   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Text mining for literature review and knowledge discovery in cancer risk assessment and research. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Research in biomedical text mining is starting to produce technology which can make information in biomedical literature more accessible for bio-scientists.
Anna Korhonen, Diarmuid O Séaghdha, Ilona Silins, Lin Sun, Johan Högberg, Ulla Stenius   +5 more
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Spectrum of topics for world congresses and other activities of the International Society for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM) : a first proposal [PDF]

, 2013
Background: One of the objectives of the International Society for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine is to improve the continuity of World Congresses.
Fialka-Moser, Veronika, Gutenbrunner, Christoph, Guzman, Manuel, Imamura, Marta, Li, Jianan, Li, Leonard SW, Stucki, Gerold, Vanderstraeten, Guy, Ward, Anthony B   +8 more
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Additional treatment with mistletoe extracts for patients with breast cancer compared to conventional cancer therapy alone – efficacy and safety, costs and cost-effectiveness, patients and social aspects, and ethical assessment

GMS German Medical Science, 2022
Background: Chemotherapy is often used in the treatment of breast cancer in women. Side effects such as diarrhea, fatigue, hair loss, fever or disturbances in blood formation impair the women’s quality of life.
Schnell-Inderst, Petra, Steigenberger, Caroline, Mertz, Marcel, Otto, Ilvie, Flatscher-Thöni, Magdalena, Siebert, Uwe   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cardiovascular function and ballistocardiogram: a relationship interpreted via mathematical modeling [PDF]

, 2019
Objective: to develop quantitative methods for the clinical interpretation of the ballistocardiogram (BCG). Methods: a closed-loop mathematical model of the cardiovascular system is proposed to theoretically simulate the mechanisms generating the BCG ...
Despins, Laurel, Enayati, Moein, Guidoboni, Giovanna, Huxley, Virginia H., Keller, James, Popescu, Mihail, Sacco, Riccardo, Sala, Lorenzo, Skubic, Marjorie, Szopos, Marcela   +9 more
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Risk of infections and cardiovascular and venous thromboembolic events associated with JAK inhibitors in rheumatoid arthritis: protocols of two systematic reviews and network meta-analyses

BMJ Open, 2020
Introduction Janus kinases (JAK) inhibitors demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of adult patients with moderate-to-severe active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) but have been associated with serious cardiovascular and serious events.
Francisco Batel-Marques, Diogo Mendes, Carlos Alves, Ana Penedones   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health Technology Assessment: informed by science or in the service of politics?

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2021
The youth of Health Technology Assessment (HTA), as an institutional policy at the national level, signals the need to reflect on how its implementation took place under the perspective of its insertion in health policy and the scientific field.
Patrícia Coelho De Soárez
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Number needed to treat (NNT) in clinical literature: an appraisal

BMC Medicine, 2017
Background The number needed to treat (NNT) is an absolute effect measure that has been used to assess beneficial and harmful effects of medical interventions.
Diogo Mendes, Carlos Alves, Francisco Batel-Marques   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source