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

Cost–effectiveness analyses, particularly in the USA, commonly use a figure of 50,000perlife-
yearorquality-adjustedlife-yeargainedasathresholdforassessingthecost …

Objective The development of these guidelines is mandated by the American Association of
Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Board of Directors and American College of Endocrinology …

Abstract Recently, Ware and Sherbourne1 published a new short‐form health survey, the
MOS 36‐Item Short‐Form Health Survey (SF‐36), consisting of 36 items included in long …

Markov models are useful when a decision problem involves risk that is continuous over
time, when the timing of events is important, and when important events may happen more …

METHODS This CPG was developed in accordance with the AACE Protocol for
Standardized Production of Clinical Practice Guidelines—2010 Update (

A study of the quality of life and cost-utility of renal transplantation. The objective of this study
was to assess the cost-utility of renal transplantation compared with dialysis. To accomplish …

Because economic evaluations of health care services are being published with increasing
frequency it is important to (a) evaluate them rigorously and (b) compare the net benefit of …

PURPOSE To investigate the benefit of chemotherapy in patients with symptomatic hormone-
resistant prostate cancer using relevant end points of palliation in a randomized controlled …

Self-expanding metal stents are claimed to prolong biliary-stent patency, although no formal
comparative trial between plastic and expandable stents has been done. In a prospective …