Cost, Coverage, and Comparative Effectiveness Research: The Critical Issues for Oncology

Cost-effectiveness analysis in oncology.

Economic evaluations in cancer have become increasingly important because of the rising incidence of the disease and the proliferation of effective therapies. The aging of the population and the increasing costs of care make it even more important to identify those treatments of greatest value from both an effectiveness and cost perspective. Economic research can be conducted at the "macro" lev...

Comparative efficiency research (COMER): meta-analysis of cost-effectiveness studies

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to create a new meta-analysis method for cost-effectiveness studies using comparative efficiency research (COMER). METHODS We built a new score named total incremental net benefit (TINB), with inverse variance weighting of incremental net benefits (INB). This permits determination of whether an alternative is cost-effective, given a specific threshold (TIN...

comparative analysis of the use of hedges & emphatics in english and persian academic research articles of sociology & psychology

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the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

CEPAC and comparative effectiveness research.