In 1993,the World Bank released a global report on the efficacy of health promotion,introducing the disability-adjusted life years(DALY)as a novel indicator.The DALY,a composite metric incorporating temporal and quali...
Background: Chronic kidney disease is a serious public health issue in Egypt. An estimated 13% of individuals in Egypt are expected to have CKD, with a higher prevalence among older adults and in rural regions. The pr...
the Major Innovation Platform of Public Health&Disease Control and Prevention,Renmin University of China,and Beijing Nova Program(Z191100001119072).
Background.Diabetic retinopathy(DR)has been primarily indicated to cause vision impairment and blindness,while no studies have focused on the cost-utility of telemedicine-based and community screening programs for DR ...
Objective To evaluate the economy of detecting gastric cancer by electronic gastroscope in Chinese natural population of different ages and genders.Methods A Markov model was constructed for the population,including b...
AIM: To evaluate the cost-utility of iStent inject;with cataract surgery vs cataract surgery alone in patients with mild-to-moderate primary open angle glaucoma(POAG) in the Japanese setting from a public payer’s per...
AIM: To develop a model to evaluate the cost-utility of choroidal nevi monitoring recommendations with varying clinical risk factors.METHODS: A Markov model was created to evaluate the cost-utility in cost per quality...
Purpose: Ablative options, beyond mastectomy, for large breasted patients with breast cancer include oncoplastic resection via reduction pattern and standard lumpectomy. Oncoplastic resection also entails a contralate...
Bevacizumab plus erlotinib prolonged patients' progression-free survive (PFS) versus bevacizumab alone for the maintenance treatment of none-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in phase III clinical trial ATLAS (Clin...
Immunosuppression(IS)following solid organ transplantation is indicated to avoid rejection but puts a significant burden on patients and healthcare systems due to life-long medication dependency and associated costs.O...
Background Randomized studies have shown beneficial effects of drug-eluting stent (DES) in reducing the risk of repeated revascularization. Other studies have shown higher proportion of death, myocardial infarction ...