In order to describe the process of tobacco quitting, we perform a VAR model and causality tests both on the monthly sales of tobacco products and nicotine dependence drugs in France, for the period going from February 2004 to April 2009. According to the path of tobacco quitting found out, it...

Objective: to analyse the economic benefits, in comparison with placebo, of the secondary prevention of ischaemic stroke and myocardial infarction (MI) with lysine acetylsalicylate (Kardegic(R)) in patients with a history of ischaemic stroke, MI or stable and unstable angina pectoris. Design and...

In this paper, we apply the principles of information theory to medical diagnosis and we show how it can be used to select cost-efficient diagnostic strategies in the set of feasible ones. Dans cet article, nous appliquons au domaine médical les principes de la théorie de l’information et...

In medical literature the value of diagnostic tests is most of the time appreciated from their statistical properties (sensitivity and specificity) and from the prevalence of a given disease. In this paper we also take into account economic parameters such as the benefits and costs of the...