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Jan 14, 2025 | 
jamanetwork.com | Kristine Ensrud |Outcomes Research |Carolyn Crandall |Susan Marie Ott
Fracture Risk Assessment as a Component of Osteoporosis Screening—Easier Said Than Done US Preventive Services Task Force USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures US Preventive Services Task Force; Wanda K. Nicholson, MD, MPH, MBA; Michael Silverstein, MD, MPH; John B. Wong, MD; David Chelmow, MD; Tumaini Rucker Coker, MD, MBA; Esa M.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
newswise.com | Outcomes Research
“Health technology assessment (HTA) guidelines are intended to support successful implementation of HTA by enhancing consistency and transparency in concepts, methods, processes, and use, thereby enhancing the legitimacy of the decision-making process,” said c author Manit Sittimart, MSc, Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
newswise.com | Outcomes Research
Lawrenceville, NJ, USA—December 18, 2024—Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research, announced today the publication of a special themed section of research papers that document challenges in rare disease evidence and economic evaluation and policy as well as ways in which the environment is evolving to address them.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
newswise.com | Outcomes Research
Healthcare systems around the world are facing a number of momentous issues that make it challenging to identify which healthcare decisions will lead to the best health outcomes for patients. Strained budgets, the growth of innovative new therapy options, and rising costs all contribute to the increasing complexity of healthcare decision making.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com | Carlos Moran |Carlos Morán |Paola Ramos |Outcomes Research |Yamila Caraballo
Each patient-tumor sample had a 1-mm sample obtained from a region of tumor and stroma near the respective tumor-stroma interface. SMI was obtained on 3 tissue microarrays (TMAs) using the Human Immuno-Oncology Panel (consisting of 978 RNA probes). Between stromal and tumor primary-disease fields of view (FOV), 40 FOV passed the applied quality filters (see Methods, Table 1, Additional File 1: Fig. S1, Additional File 2: Table S1.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Outcomes Research |Yifang Liang |Jiahui Mao |Qiran Wei
1 Introduction Lung cancer has the highest incidence and mortality rates among all malignant tumors worldwide. In 2022, there were 1.06 million new cases of lung cancer, accounting for 22.0% of all malignant tumors, and 733,300 deaths, accounting for 28.5% of all malignant tumor-related deaths worldwide [1].
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Orly Vardeny |Outcomes Research |Brian Claggett |Michele Senni
Key PointsQuestion
What is the treatment effect of finerenone, relative to placebo, in patients with heart failure with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction based on postrandomization potassium levels? Findings
Among 6001 patients in a clinical trial, finerenone increased potassium levels greater than 5.5 mmol/L and decreased potassium levels less than 3.5 mmol/L.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Outcomes Research
In 2009, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) began implementation of a stepped-care model for chronic pain management, which builds on a foundation of patient education for pain self-management approaches. Many patients adequately manage pain using self-management approaches; however, patients with high-impact chronic pain often require more intensive care.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Outcomes Research |De Brito
Household secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure remains a significant health issue for racially and ethnically minoritized children in the United States. Delivering parental tobacco treatment during pediatric primary care visits can reduce children’s SHS exposure. This study examined current tobacco screening practices and health system stakeholder perceptions of facilitators and barriers to addressing tobacco use during pediatric visits among racially and ethnically minoritized parents.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
newswise.com | Outcomes Research
“Healthcare decision making, including regulatory and reimbursement decisions, is typically grounded in uncertain assessments of clinical and economic value,” said author Maarten IJzerman, PhD, Professor of Cancer Health Services Research, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. “Structured expert elicitation is the process of extracting expert knowledge about uncertain quantity or quantities and formulating that information into probability distributions.
