Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is a comprehensive and
integrated approach to the delivery of early intervention and treatment services through …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Endoscopist-directed propofol sedation (EDP) remains
controversial. We sought to update the safety experience of EDP and estimate the cost of …

Summary On June 10, 2005, a tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular
pertussis vaccine (Tdap) formulated for use in adults and adolescents was licensed in the …

Objective To investigate if published studies tend to report favourable cost effectiveness
ratios (below 20000, 50 000, and 100000perqualityadjustedlifeyear(QALY)gained)andevaluatestudycharacteristicsassociated …

Introducción: A pesar del creciente reconocimiento de la potencial utilidad de los estudios
de coste-efectividad, en España no existe ningún criterio que permita establecer si una …

It is increasingly common to find the results of economic evaluations that report results in
terms of cost per life year or cost per quality adjusted life year (QALY) grouped together for …

Health care economic analyses are becoming increasingly important in the evaluation of
health care interventions, including many within ophthalmology. Encompassed with the …

OBJECTIVE—The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) demonstrated that intensive lifestyle
and metformin interventions reduced the incidence of type 2 diabetes compared with a …

Background: Nosocomial infections (NIs) are a serious patient safety issue. Infection control
personnel are responsible for implementing interventions to reduce this risk. The purpose of …

Decision strategies in dynamic environments do not always succeed in producing desired
outcomes, particularly in complex, ill-structured domains. Information systems often capture …