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Toward a 21st-Century Health Care System: Recommendations for Health Care Reform
(American College of Physicians, 2009)
Systematic review: the effects of growth hormone on athletic performance
(American College of Physicians, 2008)
Background: Human growth hormone is reportedly used to enhance athletic performance, although its safety and efficacy for this purpose are poorly understood.
Purpose: To evaluate evidence about the effects of growth ...
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 ...
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 ...
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of vaccination against pandemic influenza (H1N1) 2009
(American College of Physicians, 2009)
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 has caused 182 166 confirmed infections and 1799 deaths in more than 150 countries to date (1). Both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have ...
ASSESSING THE EFFECT SIZE OF OUTCOME RESEARCH
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
Effect Sizes for Experimenting Psychologists
(American Psychological Association, 2003)
This article describes three families of effect size estimators and their use in situations of general and specific interest to experimenting psychologists. The situations discussed include both between- and within-group ...
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 ...
Impacts of informal caregiver availability on long-term care expenditures in OECD countries
(Wiley Blackwell, 2004)
Objective. To quantify the effects of informal caregiver availability and public funding on formal long-term care (LTC) expenditures in developed countries.
Data Source/Study Setting. Secondary data were acquired for ...
Trends in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator racial disparity
(Elsevier, 2005)
Objectives
The study was designed to determine whether racial disparity in utilization of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) has improved over time, and whether small-area geographic variation in ICD utilization ...