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Background: The impact of compliance to clinical practice guidelines (CPG) on outcomes and/or costs of care has not been completely clarified.Objective: To estimate relationships between medical expenditures and compliance to CPG for initial sarcoma treatment.Research design: Selected cohorts of...
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Advertising plays a major role in differentiating brands. Many advertisements attempt to create positive feelings through the use of humor, music, or attractive spokespersons. Marketers hope the positive emotions (i.e., positive affect) evoked by these types of ads will transfer to the...
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The growth of Internet technology and electronic commerce has not been matched by theoretically-guided social science research. Well-developed consumer research is needed to illustrate the nature and possible scope of the Internet retail choice in the marketplace. The primary purpose of this...
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ABSTRACT The high price of cancer drugs has become a world-wide phenomenon. In recent decades, studies have produced ample evidence of rising research and clinical testing costs underlying pharmaceutical innovations. There is a general concurrence that the current model of drug development needs...
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/refractory FL in France, with ICERs below those observed for other therapies in the oncology field. The cost of rituximab was partly …
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Quality of life (QoL) is affected by issues specific to illness trajectory and thus, may differ, and potentially take on different meanings, at different stages in the cancer process. A widely used measure of QoL is the SF-36 Health Survey (SF-36; Ware <CitationRef CitationID="CR57">1993</CitationRef>); therefore, support for its...</citationref>
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) and clinic staff (n = 9) from the Thoracic Oncology Program at Moffitt Cancer Center, in Tampa, Florida, USA. All focus …
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contemporary clinical trials in oncology are not reducible to mere drug testing. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews … with researchers in the field of oncology from 2010 to 2013, we introduce a conceptual contrast between trials as testing … biological or clinical insights. The rise of “biomarker-driven” clinical trials in oncology, which link measurable biological …
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