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Case-studies of displacement effects in Dutch hospital care
Abstract Background Under a constrained health care budget, cost-increasing technologies may displace funds from existing health services. However, it is unknown what services... -
Therapeutic rating scores
Database contains the therapeutic rating scores for new active substances from the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board and from Prescrire International. -
Marketing trials, marketing tricks — how to spot them and how to stop them
Abstract Background Last this year in this journal, Barbour and colleagues reported a study of “marketing trials” in leading medical journals (Trials 2016;17:31). In this... -
Reliability and validity of a novel tool to comprehensively assess food and b...
Abstract Background Current methods for evaluating food marketing to children often study a single marketing channel or approach. As the World Health Organization urges the... -
Cost-effectiveness analysis of pembrolizumab monotherapy versus chemotherapy ...
Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of pembrolizumab monotherapy compared with standard chemotherapy for the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in... -
Education of pediatric subspecialty fellows in transport medicine: a national...
Abstract Background The transport of critically ill patients to children’s hospitals is essential to current practice. The AAP Section on Transport Medicine has raised concerns... -
Cost-effectiveness of the treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutritio...
Abstract Background The Malian Nutrition Division of the Ministry of Health and Action Against Hunger tested the feasibility of integrating treatment of severe acute... -
Adverse event-related costs for systemic metastatic breast cancer treatment a...
Objective: This retrospective study compared the real-world incidence and costs of systemic treatment-related adverse events (AEs) in patients with metastatic breast cancer in a... -
The association of funding source on effect size in randomized controlled tri...
Abstract Background Trials financed by for-profit organizations have been associated with favorable outcomes of new treatments, although the effect size of funding source impact... -
Additional file 2: Table S1. of Association of the FDA Amendment Act with tri...
Presenting the clinical trials supporting FDA approvals of drugs in cardiovascular disease and diabetes that were published in the biomedical literature in a manner that was... -
Cost-effectiveness analysis of treatment regimens with obinutuzumab plus chem...
Obinutuzumab (GA101; G) is a new treatment for follicular lymphoma (FL) that is anticipated to have greater efficacy than the current treatment, rituximab (R). The aim of this... -
Complementary horse-assisted therapy for substance use disorders: a randomize...
Abstract Background Treatment completion is the greatest challenge for the treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs). A previous investigation showed that complementary... -
Real-world cost analysis of chemotherapy for colorectal cancer in Japan: deta...
Abstract Background Various chemotherapy regimens for advanced colorectal cancer have been introduced to clinical practice in Japan over the past decade. The cost profiles of... -
Treatment patterns, resource use and costs of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis i...
Abstract Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a form of chronic fibrosing interstitial pneumonia characterized by progressive worsening of dyspnea and lung... -
Rising gasoline prices increase new motorcycle sales and fatalities
Abstract Background We examined whether sales of new motorcycles was a mechanism to explain the relationship between motorcycle fatalities and gasoline prices. Methods The data... -
Trade-offs, fairness, and funding for cancer drugs: key findings from a delib...
Abstract Background Spending on cancer drugs has risen dramatically in recent years compared to other areas of health care, due in part to higher prices associated with newly... -
Investments in tuberculosis research – what are the gaps?
Abstract Through decades of research, numerous studies have generated robust evidence about effective interventions for tuberculosis control. Yet, the global annual decline in... -
BehaviorandMateChoiceData131024R1
Spreadsheet containing both the mating outcome and the trainer behavior for all behavior/mating trials reported in the manuscript. Treatments are abbreviated: WS/DS=seasonal... -
Bedaquiline- versus injectable-containing drug-resistant tuberculosis regimen...
Background: Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) continues to be a major public health challenge with suboptimal treatment outcomes including well-documented treatment-related... -
An analysis of discrepancies between United Kingdom cancer research funding a...
Abstract Background Ideally, the allocation of research funding for each specific type of cancer should be proportional to its societal burden. This burden can be estimated with...
