PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and safety of presurgical devascularization of meningiomas. METHODS Matched samples of embolized and nonembolized groups of meningiomas were compared. The study variables for clinical efficacy were estimated blood loss, number of transfusions, surgical resection time, and length of hospitalization. The cost-effectiveness was evalu...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication (LNF) has essentially replaced its conventional open counterpart (CNF). An economic evaluation of LNF compared with CNF based on prospective data with adequate follow-up is lacking. METHODS Data from two consecutive studies (a randomized clinical trial (RCT) of 57 patients undergoing LNF and 46 undergoing CNF that was terminated prematurely, and a...

BACKGROUND The present study was designed in quasi-experiment to assess adoption of the essential clauses of particular clinical laboratory quality management requirements based on international organization for standardization (ISO 15189) in hospital laboratories and to evaluate the cost effectiveness of compliance to ISO 15189. METHODS The quality management intervention based on ISO 15189 ...

Background COVID-19 vaccinations were first met with public hesitancy. There are some debates about the vaccines’ effectiveness in reducing hospital admissions or length of stay. Objective We aim to compare different vaccine statuses and types Methods Data related admissions, stay, need for intensive care, vaccination data obtained from Jordanian Ministry Health. Results A total 17,182 recorded...

background: this cross-sectional study was conducted to compare the cost-effectiveness of three therapeutic methods of long-term hemodialysis, kidney transplant from a living person and kidney transplant from a cadaver utilizing disability adjusted life years (daly) using data from the records of patients referred to afzalipour hospital of kerman in 2012.   methods: this cross-sectional study u...