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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 ... -
Costs and benefits of prenatal screening for cystic fibrosis
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Costs and health consequences of cholesterol screening for asymptomatic older Americans
(American Medical Association, 1991)To predict the consequences of cholesterol screening among elderly Americans who do not have symptoms of heart disease, we explore the cost implications of a cholesterol screening program, evaluate evidence linking ... -
The costs of decedents in the medicare program: implications for payments to medicare+choice plans
(Wiley Blackwell, 2004)Objective. To discuss and quantify the incentives that Medicare managed care plans have to avoid (through selective enrollment or disenrollment) people who are at risk for very high costs, focusing on Medicare beneficiaries ... -
A crash course in the mathematics of infinite sets
(St. John's College, 1998) -
Creating an intellectual commons through open access
(MIT Press, 2006)Open-access (OA) literature is online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. The low-hanging fruit for OA is literature that authors consent to distribute without payment, or for which they ... -
Creek People
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A Cretan Odyssey, Part 1
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-09-17)The concept of “the Cretan Odyssey”—or, better, “a Cretan Odyssey”—is reflected in the “lying tales” of Odysseus in the Odyssey. These tales give the medium of Homeric poetry an opportunity to open windows into an Odyssey ... -
A Cretan Odyssey, Part 2
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-09-24)In the posting for 2015.09.17, I showed what can be reconstructed as a Minoan Mycenaean version of Ariadne. Here in the posting for 2015.09.24, I now turn to later versions, as reflected especially in the visual arts of ...