PURPOSE To report (1) the costs of verteporfin photodynamic therapy (VPDT) in routine treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), (2) the relationship between health and social service costs and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), (3) the cost-effectiveness of VPDT versus a best supportive care (BSC) group who were assumed to have no active treatment, and (4) lessons for ...

OBJECTIVES The ESCAPE trial showed that chest pain observation unit (CPOU) care appeared to be cost effective compared with routine care. This finding may not be generalizable to hospitals that currently admit fewer patients than the trial hospital or that require higher direct costs to provide CPOU care. This study aimed to explore these issues in sensitivity analyses and develop a nomogram to...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the cost-effectiveness of alternative interventions to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. DESIGN A model capturing the sequential nature of mother-to-child transmission in utero, at delivery and postnatally was used to determine how the effects of bottle-feeding, elective Cesarean section (CS) and zidovudine (ZDV) would combine to prevent mother-to-c...

Kemenes Géfin László Fehérlófia című műve a nyugati magyar diaszpóra közegében öltött először alakot. Jóllehet szöveg az emigrációs irodalom keretében formálódott, kisebbségi helyzet nem csupán megalkotáshoz kapcsolódó életrajzi adalék, sőt is pusztán beszédhelyzetben érzékelhető-érvényesülő tapasztalat, hanem magának írásmódnak meghatározó sajátossága. A műnemet tekintve heterogén Fehérlófiát ...

Population genetic structure of stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus) in 197 adult specimens from four fishery regions along the Iranian coastline of the southern Caspian Sea was investigated using microsatellite markers. Out of 15 microsatellite primers, 11 loci were produced, in which 10 of them were polymorphic and 1 was monomorph. Totally, 184 alleles were identified and on average 13.1 a...