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commonly used methods for analysing datasets with incomplete observations were relatively ad hoc (e.g. case deletion, mean ….g. multiple imputation) have been proposed that attempt to correct the flaws of the simple imputation methods. Objectives: The … objectives are to provide a concise and accessible description of the quantitative methods most commonly used in trial-based cost …
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West African population. Methods: Seventy subjects were purposely selected from seven randomly selected communities in a …
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schemes on pharmaceutical prices in the former EU-15 countries. Methods: An analytical model was developed estimating the …
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Bone densitometry is currently widely recommended for, and considered central to, identifying post-menopausal women and older men at high risk of fracture and establishing an indication for pharmacological fracture-prevention therapy. The purpose of this article is to comprehensively review...
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and applies various methods to control for selection bias in the estimation of treatment effects and proposes novel ways …. We describe and compare the use of regression methods, propensity score matching, fixed-effects models incorporating … investigator-reported outcomes. To illustrate these methods, we have used data from the SOHO (Schizophrenia Outpatient Health …
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Background: Policy makers are increasingly interested in developing performance indicators that measure hospital efficiency. These indicators may give the purchasers of health services an additional regulatory tool to contain health expenditure. Objective: Using panel data, this study compares...
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If present increases in the rate of obesity persist, by 2015 half of the population in the US could be obese. This article presents the case that the reason for the epidemic is an `infrastructure of obesity' that fuels the phenomenon. To control this epidemic, public policy in general and health...
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