BACKGROUND Interest in outcomes research (OR) derives from the need to know the value and the effectiveness of health interventions, especially for oncology. We focused our research on OR in breast cancer, providing an overview of the trend of publications. PATIENTS AND METHODS We carried out a Medline search to retrieve all articles in English published from 2000 through 2007. The abstracts ...

There is undisputed evidence that personalized medicine, that is, a more precise assessment of which medical intervention might best serve an individual patient on the basis of novel technology, such as molecular profiling, can have a significant impact on clinical outcomes. The field, however, is still new, and the demonstration of improved effectiveness compared with standard of care comes at...

S ince the last advances article on health policy and outcomes , 1 selected developments include new knowledge on long-term outcomes after stroke and their policy relevance, associations of neighborhood disadvantage with stroke mortality , growth and effect of regionalized systems of stroke care, and preliminary research relevant to policies on early stroke mortality as a hospital performance m...

s he field of outcomes research continues to grow in its ophistication, scope, and importance. Our ability to track atterns of disease and health care and patient outcomes ontinues to build on stronger methodological approaches, dvances in computing technology, and the coordination of alented investigators. Breakthroughs in the diagnosis and reatment of cardiovascular disease are applying press...

Health policy research and its kin, outcomes research, are primarily aimed at informing policy decision-makers. Although we know of no clear line separating these 2 types of research, an apparent convention is to term research performed specifically for policy decisions and typically reported in nonacademic publications as “health policy research,”1 whereas outcomes research is the more academi...

Alcohol-related health outcomes show strikingly high incidence in Hungary. The effects of alcohol consumption are influenced not only by the quantity, but also the quality of drinks; therefore, wine production can have an important effect on public health outcomes. Nevertheless, the Hungarian wine sector faces several vital problems and challenges influenced by the country's accession to the Eu...

Leading health commentators have called for health equity to be made a measureable endpoint of health technology assessment (HTA) (Daniels et al., 2016; Horton, 2013). Nowhere is this more important than in low income countries on the path to universal health coverage, where reducing inequalities in health care, health outcomes and protection from the financial risks of ill-health are central p...

Perioperative outcomes research using anesthesia information management systems (AIMS) is an emerging research method that has not been comprehensively reviewed. This review reports an initial analysis of the use of AIMS for perioperative patient outcomes research from articles published between January 1980 and January 2013. Perioperative patient outcomes research based on AIMS has increased g...

earlier this year, illumina inc. and life technologies inc. each announced new products that can sequence a genome for $1,000 in a single day (1); approximately 3 million times cheaper than the cost during the Human Genome Project back in the early part of the last decade. Furthermore, cloud-based, big-data software companies are capable of using whole-and partial-genome sequencing to automate ...