Browsing HCA Scholarly Articles by Title
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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
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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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Crown Jewel of the Fleet: Design, Construction, and Use of the Seagoing Balsa of the Pre-Columbian Andean Coast
(International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, 2012)The seaworthiness of the balsa sailing raft, and the seafaring aptitude of those who built and sailed it, has been the subject of critically biased, often conflicting accounts over the nearly five centuries since contact. ... -
Current approaches to cervical-cancer screening
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Data as assemblage
(Emerald, 2022-03-03)Purpose A definition of data called data as assemblage is presented. The definition accommodates different forms and meanings of data; emphasizes data subjects and data workers; and reflects the sociotechnical aspects of ... -
The Devil’s Shoehorn: A case study of EAD to ArchivesSpace migration at a large university
(Code4Lib, 2017)A band of archivists and IT professionals at Harvard took on a project to convert nearly two million descriptions of archival collection components from marked-up text into the ArchivesSpace archival metadata management ... -
Digital Access to Knowledge: Research chat with Harvard’s Peter Suber
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Digitizing Orphan Works: Legal Strategies to Reduce Risks for Open Access to Copyrighted Orphan Works
(Harvard Library, 2016)