Browsing HCA Scholarly Articles by Title
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The confirmatory trial in comparative-effectiveness research
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Congress approves the NIH plan
(Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, 2004) -
Consequences of health trends and medical innovation for the future elderly
(Project HOPE, 2005)Recent innovations in biomedicine seem poised to revolutionize medical practice. At the same time, disease and disability are increasing among younger populations. This paper considers how these confluent trends will affect ... -
Coping with chronic disease? Chronic disease and disability in elderly American population 1982-1999
(National Bureau of Economic Research Inc, 2009)It is well known that disability rates among the American elderly have declined over the past decades. The cause of this decline is less well established. In this paper, we test one important possible explanation--that the ... -
Copyleft for science?
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Copyright and Legal Issues Surrounding 3D Data
(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2022)An overview of essential legal concepts and strategies, this chapter synthesizes the ideas, questions, and legal issues that arise in relation to 3D data. Case studies provide scenarios based on real-world situations that ... -
Copyright Law and Free Online Scholarship: Interview with Peter Suber
(United Press International, 2002) -
Copyright Law’s Role in Advocacy and Education for Open Access Policies on Campus
(Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), 2019)Over the past decade, colleges and universities have been adopting institutional open access (OA) policies that encourage, direct, or give rights to authors to make their research publicly available in institutional ... -
Corporate treatment for the ills of academic medicine
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Cost effectiveness of alternative imaging strategies for the diagnosis of small-bowel crohn's disease
(Elsevier, 2010)Background & Aims The cost effectiveness of alternative approaches to the diagnosis of small-bowel Crohn's disease is unknown. This study evaluates whether computed tomographic enterography (CTE) is a cost-effective ... -
The cost of VA-sponsored research
(Association of American Medical Colleges, 1996)BACKGROUND: Under pressures to reduce health care costs, clinical income is a shrinking source of support for research. Such pressures also threaten research at the medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs ... -
A cost-effectiveness analysis of adjuvant trastuzumab tegimens in early HER2/neu-positive breast cancer
(American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2007)Purpose One-year adjuvant trastuzumab (AT) therapy, with or without anthracyclines, increases disease-free and overall survival in early-stage HER2/neu-positive breast cancer. We sought to evaluate the cost effectiveness ... -
Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis of using methotrexate vs goeckerman therapy for psoriasis
(American Medical Association, 1998)Design Net benefit and cost-effectiveness depend on the costs, efficacy, and utilities of therapy. Utilities are quantitative measures of patient preferences. We obtained costs by using resource-based accounting techniques. ... -
Cost-effectiveness and evidence evaluation as criteria for coverage policy
(Project HOPE, 2004)Private health plans and government health insurance programs in the United States base their coverage decisions on evidence criteria, rather than explicit cost-effectiveness criteria. As health spending continues to grow ... -
Cost-effectiveness of 3 methods to enhance the sensitivity of Papanicolaou testing
(American Medical Association, 1999)Context ThinPrep, AutoPap, and Papnet are 3 new technologies that increase the sensitivity and cost of cervical cancer screening. Objective To estimate the cost-effectiveness of these technological enhancements to ... -
Cost-effectiveness of androgen suppression therapies in advanced prostate cancer
(Oxford University Press, 2000)Background: The costs and side effects of several antiandrogen therapies for advanced prostate cancer differ substantially. We estimated the cost-effectiveness of antiandrogen therapies for advanced prostate cancer. Methods: ... -
Cost-effectiveness of automated external defibrillators on airlines
(American Medical Association, 2001)Context: Installation of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) on passenger aircraft has been shown to improve survival of cardiac arrest in that setting, but the cost-effectiveness of such measures has not been ... -
Cost-effectiveness of dabigatran compared with warfarin for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation
(American College of Physicians, 2011)Background: Warfarin reduces the risk for ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) but increases the risk for hemorrhage. Dabigatran is a fixed-dose, oral direct thrombin inhibitor with similar or reduced ... -
Cost-effectiveness of screening BRCA1/2 mutation carriers with breast magnetic resonance imaging
(American Medical Association, 2006)Context: Women with inherited BRCA1/2 mutations are at high risk for breast cancer, which mammography often misses. Screening with contrast-enhanced breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detects cancer earlier but increases ... -
The cost-effectiveness of therapy with teriparatide and alendronate in women with severe osteoporosis
(American Medical Association, 2006)Background Teriparatide is a promising new agent for the treatment of osteoporosis. Methods The objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of teriparatide-based strategies compared with alendronate ...