In people with diabetes, a foot infection often leads to amputation. Plain film x-ray is the traditional method in assessing foot bone infections but magnetic resonance is more sensitive and specific. A comparison is performed here between radiography and radiography plus magnetic resonance in...

Contrast media induced nephropathy is a common cause of kidney failure in hospitalized patients. It has been suggested that high-osmolality contrast media caused less nephropathies than low-osmolality ones. The cost-effectiveness of High- (Iodixanol) and Low-osmolality (Iohexol, Iopamidol and...

Methods: A decision tree model was built with life years gained as outcome, from the perspective of the health system, and including all direct costs. Pharmaceutical prices were obtained from the System of Information of Medicaments SISMED (2008), and the value of procedures was calculated from...

Objetive: To assess the cost effectiveness of unrelated stem cell transplantation versus consolidation chemotherapy in pediatric population with high-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML).Methods: A decision tree model was built with life years gained as outcome, from the perspective of the health...

Introduction: An estimated 1,399 new cases of pancreatic cancer (PC) and 1,406 deaths from the same cause occurred in Colombia in 2002. We evaluate the cost-effectiveness of multidetector computed tomography (CT), endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) and positron emission tomography with computed...