item Frequency Percentage With scores ≥4.50 Type of cea No 0 0 Yes 216 100 Description of intervention No 1 0.5 Partial 1 0.5 Yes 214 99 Description of comparator No 13 6.0 Partial 83 38 Yes 120 56 With scores 4.00–4.49 Target population No 18 8.3 Yes 198 92 Time horizon No 114 53 Yes 102 47 Perspective No 81 38 Partial 4 1.9 Yes 131 61 How denominator was derived No 17 7.9 Yes 199 92 cea ratio...

OBJECTIVE Several reports have shown that certain pre-operative CEA intervals can be predictive of long-term outcomes and have subsequently implied that preoperative CEA may be useful to assess the risk of recurrence or death as a continuous number for individual cases. This analysis assesses if this hypothesis is valid after correction for confounders. METHODS All colon cancer patients opera...

AIM The aim of this cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), performed from a societal perspective, was to compare costs and consequences of an individually tailored oral health educational programme (ITOHEP) based on cognitive behavioural strategies integrated in non-surgical periodontal treatment compared with a standard treatment programme (ST). MATERIAL AND METHODS A randomized (n = 113), evalu...

OBJECTIVES Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is essential for the comparison of treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). CEA centres on accurate measurement of health utility (HU) preferences. Direct measures of HU in RA patients demonstrate weaker correlations with health status (functional disability and pain) than indirect measures. We examined whether demographic and psychosocial factors r...

AIM To assess whether elevated serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is in the inferior prognosis for pathological lymph node-negative (pN0) gastric cancer (GC) patients who underwent D2 gastrectomy. METHODS About 469 pN0 GC patients, who received D2 radical gastrectomy were retrospectively analyzed. The X-tile plots cut-off point for CEA were 30.02 ng/mL using minimum P-value from log-rank χ2...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to evaluate the diagnostic precision of serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) in the detection of local or distant recurrence following resectional surgery for colon and rectal cancer. METHODS Quantitative meta-analysis was performed on 20 studies, comparing serum CEA with radiological imaging and/or pathology in detecting colorectal cancer (CRC) recurrenc...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) for evaluating different reimbursement models. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING The CEA used an observational study comparing fee for service (FFS) versus capitation for Medicaid cases with severe mental illness (n=522). Under capitation, services were provided either directly (direct capitation [DC]) by not-for-profit community mental heal...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the cost effectiveness, cost utility and cost benefit of a workplace intervention compared with usual care for sick-listed employees with distress. METHODS An economic evaluation was conducted alongside a randomised controlled trial. Employees with distress and who were sick-listed for 2-8 weeks were randomised to a workplace intervention (n=73) or to usual care (n=72)....

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to investigate how metabolic syndrome (MetS) and related clinical variables correlate with high levels of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). MATERIAL AND METHODS Variables related to MetS as well as the serum CEA levels of 366 subjects were assayed. Logistic regression analyses were used to determine the associations between various clinical variables and high...

BACKGROUND Today, continued periodic follow-up of patients treated for colorectal cancer (CRC) seems often to be routine because of tradition, rather than its demonstrated value. Recently, the Norwegian Gastrointestinal Cancer Group (NGICG) has recommended a standard surveillance programme in this malignancy. In this protocol patients are suggested followed for four years with CEA monitoring, u...