Costs and Cost Analysis

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A case-control comparison of durability and cost between implanted reservoir and percutaneous catheters in cancer patients. 
  • A clinical economics workstation for risk-adjusted health care cost management. 
  • A comparison of directional atherectomy with coronary angioplasty in patients with coronary artery disease. The CAVEAT Study Group. 
  • A comprehensive resident training program in operative endoscopy. 
  • A cost analysis of bone morphogenetic protein versus autogenous iliac crest bone graft in single-level anterior lumbar fusion. 
  • A cost analysis of hematopoietic colony-stimulating factors. 
  • A cost analysis of outpatient care for patients with Barrett's esophagus in a managed care setting. 
  • A cost analysis of the impact of a new intravenous antihypertensive in managing perioperative blood pressure during cardiac surgery. 
  • A cost and outcomes comparison of a novel integrated pediatric air and ground transportation system. 
  • A cost-minimization analysis comparing azithromycin-based and levofloxacin-based protocols for the treatment of patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia: results from the CAP-IN trial. 
  • A cost-minimization analysis of tissue-engineered constructs for corneal endothelial transplantation. 
  • A financial analysis of operative facial fracture management. 
  • A low-cost, multiplexed electrophysiology system for chronic μECoG recordings in rodents. 
  • A low-cost, open-source, wireless electrophysiology system. 
  • A method for adjusting capitation payments to managed care plans using multivariate patterns of health and functioning: the experience of Social/Health Maintenance Organizations. 
  • A method for perfusion of the leg during cardiopulmonary bypass via femoral cannulation. 
  • A microcosting analysis of zoledronic acid and pamidronate therapy in patients with metastatic bone disease. 
  • A model of educational resource use by children with cochlear implants. 
  • A multivariate approach for classifying hospitals and computing blended payment rates. 
  • A primer of biostatistic and economic methods for diagnostic and prognostic modeling in nuclear cardiology: Part I. 
  • A primer of biostatistic and economic methods for diagnostic and prognostic modeling in nuclear cardiology: Part II. 
  • A protocol of early spiral computed tomography for the detection of stones in patients with renal colic has reduced the time to diagnosis and overall management costs. 
  • A randomized trial comparing acute normovolemic hemodilution and preoperative autologous blood donation in total hip arthroplasty. 
  • ACC/AHA guidelines and indications for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Assessment of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiovascular Procedures (Subcommittee on Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery). 
  • Achieving optimal results with standard balloon angioplasty: can baseline and angiographic variables predict stent-like outcomes? 
  • Acute normovolemic hemodilution is a cost-effective alternative to preoperative autologous blood donation by patients undergoing radical retropubic prostatectomy. 
  • Acute pulmonary embolism: cost-effectiveness analysis of the effect of artificial neural networks on patient care. 
  • Administrative Costs Associated With Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health Care System 
  • Admission rates and costs associated with emergency presentation of urolithiasis: analysis of the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample 2006-2009. 
  • Alternatives to albumin: starch replacement for plasma exchange. 
  • An 'electronic' extramural course in epidemiology and medical statistics. 
  • An analysis of the relationship between a pathology department and its laboratory information system vendor. 
  • An evaluation of patient self-testing competency of prothrombin time for managing anticoagulation: pre-randomization results of VA Cooperative Study #481--The Home INR Study (THINRS). 
  • An exploration of relative health stock in advanced cancer patients. 
  • Analysis of a diagnostic strategy for patients with suspected tumors of unknown origin. 
  • Analysis of underwriting factors for AAPCC (adjusted average per capita cost). 
  • Antepartum or postpartum isoniazid treatment of latent tuberculosis infection. 
  • Are we finally ready for outpatient management of febrile neutropenia? 
  • Ask Early and Ask Often: How Discussing Costs Could Save Your Patient's Life. 
  • Assessing the Financial Burden Associated With Treatment Options for Resectable Pancreatic Cancer. 
  • Assessing the quality of medical information technology economic evaluations: room for improvement. 
  • Associations between seattle heart failure model scores and medical resource use and costs: findings from HF-ACTION. 
  • Attitudes of women in midlife to web-based interventions for promoting physical activity. 
  • Bedside science reduces laboratory art. 
  • Bioluminescence screening for bacteriuria. 
  • Bundled Payment and Care of Acute Stroke: What Does it Take to Make it Work? 
  • Burning a hole in the budget: tobacco spending and its crowd-out of other goods. 
  • Cardiovascular events and hospital resource utilization pre- and post-transcatheter mitral valve repair in high-surgical risk patients. 
  • Cementless femoral prostheses cost more to implant than cemented femoral prostheses. 
  • Clinical PET scanning. A "short-lived" orphan. 
  • Clinical and economic results from a randomized trial of clinical decision support in a rural health network. 
  • Clinical chemistry outside laboratories: report of a second survey. 
  • Clinical economics in clinical trials: the measurement of cost and outcomes in the assessment of clinical services through clinical trials. 
  • Clinical testing patterns and cost implications of variation in the evaluation of CKD among US physicians. 
  • Community stop-smoking contests in the COMMIT trial: relationship of participation to costs. Community Intervention trials. 
  • Comparative evaluation of medium and atmosphere of incubation for isolation of Streptococcus pyogenes. 
  • Comparative financial analysis of minimally invasive surgery to open surgery for small renal tumours < or =3.5 cm: a single institutional experience. 
  • Comparison of Outcomes and Costs Associated With Aspirin ± Clopidogrel After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. 
  • Comparison of analytic models for estimating the effect of clinical factors on the cost of coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Comparison of hospital costing methods in an economic evaluation of a multinational clinical trial. 
  • Comparison of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy with Stamm gastrostomy. 
  • Comparison of streptokinase, urokinase, and recombinant tissue plasminogen activator in an in vitro model of venous thrombolysis. 
  • Comparison of the Dako EGFR pharmDx kit and Zymed EGFR antibody for assessment of EGFR status in colorectal adenocarcinoma. 
  • Comparison of the costs and morbidity of percutaneous and open flank procedures. 
  • Computed tomography for nontraumatic headache: current utilization and cost-effectiveness. 
  • Conducting economic evaluations alongside multinational clinical trials: toward a research consensus. 
  • Conductive keratoplasty (CK) for presbyopia. 
  • Construction and economics of a pilot/full-scale biological trickling filter reactor for the removal of volatile organic compounds from polluted air. 
  • Contemporary testing for enteric pathogens: the potential for cost, time, and health care savings. 
  • Contrast material for combined abdominal and pelvic CT: can cost be reduced by increasing the concentration and decreasing the volume? 
  • Controlled evaluation of supplemented peptone and Bactec blood culture broths for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Conversion vs Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty: Increased Cost of Care and Perioperative Complications. 
  • Coronary artery stents. American College of Cardiology. 
  • Cost Drivers of a Hospital-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia and Ventilator-Associated Bacterial Pneumonia Phase 3 Clinical Trial. 
  • Cost Implications of an Evidence-Based Approach to Radiation Treatment After Lumpectomy for Early-Stage Breast Cancer. 
  • Cost analysis and outcomes of a second-look tympanoplasty-mastoidectomy strategy for cholesteatoma. 
  • Cost analysis of abdominal, laparoscopic, and robotic-assisted myomectomies. 
  • Cost analysis of laboratory tests in ambulatory primary care. 
  • Cost analysis of myasthenia gravis from a large U.S. insurance database. 
  • Cost analysis of periprocedural imaging in patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. 
  • Cost and compensation of injuries in medical malpractice. 
  • Cost and cost-effectiveness of a school-based education program to reduce salt intake in children and their families in China. 
  • Cost and logistics for implementing the American College of Surgeons objective structured clinical examination. 
  • Cost and logistics of implementing a tissue-based American College of Surgeons/Association of Program Directors in Surgery surgical skills curriculum for general surgery residents of all clinical years. 
  • Cost and time savings following introduction of rejection criteria for clinical specimens. 
  • Cost and utilization outcomes of patients receiving hospital-based palliative care consultation. 
  • Cost averted by providing comprehensive prenatal care to teenagers. 
  • Cost comparison of radiation treatment options after lumpectomy for breast cancer. 
  • Cost comparison of radical retropubic and radical perineal prostatectomy: single institution experience. 
  • Cost effectiveness of home and community-based care. 
  • Cost effectiveness of thrombolytic therapy with tissue plasminogen activator as compared with streptokinase for acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Cost efficiency of anticoagulation with warfarin to prevent stroke in medicare beneficiaries with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. 
  • Cost estimates for treatment of cardiac ischemia (from the Asymptomatic Cardiac Ischemia Pilot [ACIP] study). 
  • Cost identification of abdominal aortic aneurysm imaging by using time and motion analyses. 
  • Cost of Bleeding-related Episodes in Adult Patients With Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Population-based Retrospective Cohort Study of Administrative Claims Data for Commercial Payers in the United States. 
  • Cost of Inpatient Care of Patients With Pemphigus in the United States: Translating Dollars and Cents Into Improved Patient Care. 
  • Cost of capital to the hospital sector. 
  • Cost of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. 
  • Cost of phacovitrectomy versus vitrectomy and sequential phacoemulsification. 
  • Cost of residents' decisions on actual patients and in simulated encounters. 
  • Cost-effective use of low-osmolality contrast media for CT of the liver: evaluation of liver enhancement provided by various doses of iohexol. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of HIV monitoring strategies in resource-limited settings: a southern African analysis. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of guidelines for insertion of inferior vena cava filters in high-risk trauma patients. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of mandatory compared with voluntary screening for human immunodeficiency virus in pregnancy. 
  • Cost-minimization analysis of robotic-assisted, laparoscopic, and abdominal sacrocolpopexy. 
  • Costing in Radiology and Health Care: Rationale, Relativity, Rudiments, and Realities. 
  • Costs by industry and diagnosis among musculoskeletal claims in a state workers compensation system: 1999-2004. 
  • Costs of criminal justice involvement among persons with serious mental illness in connecticut. 
  • Crises in echocardiography. 
  • Cross-subsidies and payment for hospital care. 
  • Cultural and organizational implications of academic managed-care networks. 
  • Current technology for the derivation of pluripotent stem cell lines from human embryos. 
  • Data Sharing at a Crossroads. 
  • Dealing with skewed cost data. 
  • Detection and localization of surgically resectable cancers with a multi-analyte blood test. 
  • Determining an episode of care using claims data. Diabetic foot ulcer. 
  • Development and implementation cost analysis of telephone- and Internet-based interventions for the maintenance of weight loss. 
  • Development of a web-based, specialty specific portfolio. 
  • Diabetes-related utilization and costs for inpatient and outpatient services in the Veterans Administration. 
  • Diagnostic accuracy and cost analysis of the Alere™ i Influenza A&B near-patient test using throat swabs. 
  • Diarrhoeal disease in Bangladesh: epidemiology, mortality averted and costs at a rural treatment centre. 
  • Digital Tomosynthesis: A Viable Alternative to Noncontrast Computed Tomography for the Follow-Up of Nephrolithiasis? 
  • Direct costs of allergic rhinitis in the United States: estimates from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. 
  • Discussion podcast--on "a comparison of health care use for physician-referred and self-referred episodes of outpatient physical therapy ". 
  • Do nurse-led skill training interventions affect informal caregivers' out-of-pocket expenditures? 
  • Do stable non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes require admission to coronary care units? 
  • Does Medicaid pay more to a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) than for fee-for-service long-term care? 
  • Does distance affect utilization of substance abuse and mental health services in the presence of transportation services? 
  • Does early ultrasonography affect management of pediatric appendicitis? A prospective analysis. 
  • Does reimportation reduce price differences for prescription drugs? Lessons from the European Union. 
  • Drug companies cut HIV drug prices in the developing world. 
  • Drug development risk and the cost of capital. 
  • Early hospital discharge after uncomplicated myocardial infarction: are further improvements possible? 
  • Ecology. Synthesizing U.S. river restoration efforts. 
  • Economic analyses of the Be Fit Be Well program: a weight loss program for community health centers. 
  • Economic analysis in eye disease. 
  • Economic analysis of centralized vs. decentralized electronic data capture in multi-center clinical studies. 
  • Economic analysis of conventional-dose chemotherapy compared with high-dose chemotherapy plus autologous hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation for metastatic breast cancer. 
  • Economic analysis of endoscopic procedures. 
  • Economic analysis of randomized, controlled trials. 
  • Economic and environmental costs of regulatory uncertainty for coal-fired power plants. 
  • Economic assessment of platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibition for prevention of ischemic complications of high-risk coronary angioplasty. EPIC Investigators. 
  • Economic assessment of thrombocytopenia: CATCH Registry. 
  • Economic evaluation of filgrastim, sargramostim, and sequential sargramostim and filgrastim after myelosuppressive chemotherapy. 
  • Economic evaluation of home blood pressure monitoring with or without telephonic behavioral self-management in patients with hypertension. 
  • Economic evaluation of telephone self-management interventions for blood pressure control. 
  • Economic evaluation of zoledronic acid versus pamidronate for the prevention of skeletal-related events in metastatic breast cancer and multiple myeloma. 
  • Economic grand rounds: Can states implement involuntary outpatient commitment within existing state budgets? 
  • Economic implications of 21-gene recurrence score assay: US multicenter experience. 
  • Economic outcomes of breast cancer survivorship: CALGB study 79804. 
  • Economic outcomes with prasugrel versus clopidogrel in acute coronary syndrome patients: observations from prasugrel users and matched clopidogrel users. 
  • Economic return of clinical trials performed under the pediatric exclusivity program. 
  • Economic theory and evidence on smoking behavior of adults. 
  • Economic winners and losers after introduction of an effective new therapy depend on the type of payment system. 
  • Editorial Commentary: Life-saving Antimicrobial Drugs: What Are We Doing to Pricing and Availability? 
  • Effect of CD34(+) cell dose on resource utilization in patients after high-dose chemotherapy with peripheral-blood stem-cell support. 
  • Effect of daily charge feedback on inpatient charges and physician knowledge and behavior. 
  • Effect of liberal blood transfusion on clinical outcomes and cost in spine surgery patients. 
  • Effect of repair strategy on hospital cost for infants with tetralogy of Fallot. 
  • Effectiveness of etoposide chemomobilization in lymphoma patients undergoing auto-SCT. 
  • Effects of nutrient profiling and price changes based on NuVal® scores on food purchasing in an online experimental supermarket. 
  • Effects of teaching on hospital costs. 
  • Effects of well spacing on geological storage site distribution costs and surface footprint. 
  • Efficacy and safety of early versus late initiation of warfarin during heparin therapy in acute thromboembolism. 
  • Elective surgery for colorectal cancer in the aged: a clinical-economical evaluation. 
  • Empirical Evidence on the "Deep Pockets" Hypothesis: Jury Awards for Pain and Suffering in Medical Malpractice Cases 
  • Environment. Can we defy nature's end? 
  • Epidemiology of recurrent cerebral infarction: a medicare claims-based comparison of first and recurrent strokes on 2-year survival and cost. 
  • Epidemiology, outcomes, and costs of invasive aspergillosis in immunocompromised children in the United States, 2000. 
  • Equivalence of two healthcare costing methods: bottom-up and top-down. 
  • Erythrocytapheresis can reduce iron overload and prevent the need for chelation therapy in chronically transfused pediatric patients. 
  • Erythropoietin therapy in the perioperative setting. 
  • Estimates and patterns of direct health care expenditures among individuals with back pain in the United States. 
  • Estimating mean cost using auxiliary covariates. 
  • Estimating the cost of unmet HIV-prevention needs in the United States. 
  • Estimation of economic costs associated with transfusion dependence in adults with MDS. 
  • Evaluating the Use of Silicone Wristbands To Measure Personal Exposure to Brominated Flame Retardants. 
  • Evaluation of a workplace hemochromatosis screening program. 
  • Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinics. 
  • Experimental analysis of the effect of taxes and subsides on calories purchased in an on-line supermarket. 
  • Experimental evaluation of rodent exclusion methods to reduce hantavirus transmission to residents in a Native American community in New Mexico. 
  • Exploring chemical space with discrete, gradient, and hybrid optimization methods. 
  • Extensive investigation of patients with mild elevations of serum amylase and/or lipase is 'low yield'. 
  • Factors improving survival in multisystem trauma patients. 
  • Factors influencing the participation of gastroenterologists and hepatologists in clinical research. 
  • Factors responsible for immunizations referrals to health departments in North Carolina. 
  • Favorable treatment outcome in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients with "poor" mobilization of peripheral blood progenitor cells. 
  • Feasibility and cost-saving potential of outpatient cardiac catheterization. 
  • Finding Health Care Prices Online-How Difficult Is It to Be an Informed Health-Care Consumer? 
  • Fish is food--the FAO's fish price index. 
  • Fuel prices, emission standards, and generation costs for coal vs natural gas power plants. 
  • Gastropathy induced by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: prescribing patterns among geriatric practitioners. 
  • Glucose challenge test screening for prediabetes and undiagnosed diabetes. 
  • Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor "mobilized" peripheral blood progenitor cells accelerate granulocyte and platelet recovery after high-dose chemotherapy. 
  • Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor use and medical costs after initial adjuvant chemotherapy in older patients with early-stage breast cancer. 
  • Guidelines for quality assurance in multicenter trials: a position paper. 
  • Healthcare Resource Use and Cost Implications in the MOMENTUM 3 Long-Term Outcome Study. 
  • Hearing Health Care: Review of a Report From the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 
  • Hepatitis C Virus Postexposure Prophylaxis in the Healthcare Worker: Why Direct-Acting Antivirals Don't Change a Thing. 
  • Home and community-based waivers for disabled adults: program versus selection effects. 
  • Hospital ownership and performance. 
  • Hospital pharmacy symposium on new concepts in parenteral drug delivery. 
  • How affordable are tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment in rural China? An analysis from community and tuberculosis patient perspectives. 
  • How does cost matter in health-care discrete-choice experiments? 
  • How price responsive is the demand for specialty care? 
  • How should clinicians interpret clinical trials? 
  • How to reduce the cost of hindfoot fusion. 
  • How valuable are environmental health interventions? Evaluation of water and sanitation programmes in India. 
  • Impact of an innovative financing and payment model on tuberculosis patients' financial burden: is tuberculosis care more affordable for the poor? 
  • Impact of case type, length of stay, institution type, and comorbidities on Medicare diagnosis-related group reimbursement for adult spinal deformity surgery. 
  • Impact of education on cephalosporin prescribing patterns. 
  • Impact of generalized social anxiety disorder in managed care. 
  • Impact of glucose self-monitoring on non-insulin-treated patients with type II diabetes mellitus. Randomized controlled trial comparing blood and urine testing. 
  • Impact of peer review in reduction of permanent pacemaker implantations. 
  • Impacts of the Master Settlement Agreement on the tobacco industry. 
  • Importance of hospital volume in the overall management of pancreatic cancer. 
  • Importance of potent P2Y(12) receptor blockade in acute myocardial infarction: focus on prasugrel. 
  • Important impact of gingival and periodontal conditions on outcomes in SCT recipients. 
  • Improved speciation of dissolved organic nitrogen in natural waters: amide hydrolysis with fluorescence derivatization. 
  • In a society of plenty, food shortages still threaten health. 
  • Incidental extracardiac findings at coronary CT: clinical and economic impact. 
  • Incorporating indirect costs into a cost-benefit analysis of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. 
  • Incremental cost-effectiveness of algorithm-driven genetic testing versus no testing for Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) in Singapore. 
  • Incremental cost-utility analysis of deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty compared with penetrating keratoplasty for the treatment of keratoconus. 
  • Influence of a randomized clinical trial on practice by participating investigators: lessons from the Coronary Angioplasty Versus Excisional Atherectomy Trial (CAVEAT). CAVEAT I and II Investigators. 
  • Innovation in the pharmaceutical industry: New estimates of R&D costs. 
  • Instrument cleaning services: a patch or another hole in the bucket? 
  • Insurance plan presentation and decision support on HealthCare.gov and state-based web sites created for the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Intellectual property, technology transfer and manufacture of low-cost HPV vaccines in India. 
  • Intermediate outcomes: diagnostic and therapeutic impact. 
  • Internal organization of hospitals and hospital costs. 
  • Intraoperative autotransfusion in aortic surgery. 
  • Investment in new technology research can save future health care dollars. 
  • Juries and justice: are malpractice and other personal injuries created equal? 
  • Laparoscopic ventral and incisional hernioplasty. 
  • Large streamlined trials in cardiovascular disease. 
  • Letrozole in the treatment of breast cancer. 
  • Leukocyte-reduced blood transfusions: perioperative indications, adverse effects, and cost analysis. 
  • Liver retransplantation: a single-center outcome and financial analysis. 
  • Local anesthesia in outpatient knee arthroscopy: a comparison of efficacy and cost. 
  • Long term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial of services for urinary symptoms. 
  • Long-term costs and resource use in elderly participants with congestive heart failure in the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Lung cancer and positron emission tomography with fluorodeoxyglucose. 
  • Maintenance of therapeutic plasma aprotinin levels during prolonged cardiopulmonary bypass using a large-dose regimen. 
  • Managed care organizations should not disclose their physicians' financial incentives. 
  • Marketing public health through older adult volunteering: Experience Corps as a social marketing intervention. 
  • Measuring costs in multisite randomized controlled trials: lessons from the VA Cooperative Studies Program. 
  • Medical expulsive therapy for ureteral calculi in the real world: targeted education increases use and improves patient outcome. 
  • Medicare cost effects of recent U.S. disability trends in the elderly: future implications. 
  • Medicare costs and surgeon supply in hospital service areas. 
  • Medicine. A portfolio model of drug development for tuberculosis. 
  • Methodological and statistical issues of quality of life (QoL) and economic evaluation in cancer clinical trials: report of a workshop. 
  • Millennium Cohort: enrollment begins a 21-year contribution to understanding the impact of military service. 
  • Mobilization, collection, and processing of autologous peripheral blood stem cells: development of a clinical process with associated costs. 
  • Modified varicella-like syndrome. 
  • Molecular assays for antimalarial drug resistance surveillance: A target product profile. 
  • Molecular mycology: DNA probes and applications of PCR technology. 
  • Myonecrosis after revascularization procedures. 
  • National trends in health care utilization and racial and socioeconomic disparities in pediatric pyogenic arthritis. 
  • Net economic costs of dementia in Canada. 
  • Nurse staffing and patient care costs in acute inpatient nursing units. 
  • Nutrition therapy cost analysis in the US: pre-mixed multi-chamber bag vs compounded parenteral nutrition. 
  • Operative Cost Comparison: Plating Versus Intramedullary Fixation for Clavicle Fractures. 
  • Optimizing treatment for middle and distal ureteral calculi. 
  • Oral anticoagulants in older adults with atrial fibrillation. 
  • Out-of-Pocket Costs, Financial Distress, and Underinsurance in Cancer Care. 
  • Outpatient anesthesia for augmentation mammaplasty and capsulotomy at Duke Hospital. 
  • Outpatient percutaneous central venous access in cancer patients. 
  • Outpatient percutaneous nephrostolithotomy. 
  • Outrage at high price paid for a fossil. 
  • Overcoming the barriers to the implementing computerized physician order entry systems in US hospitals: perspectives from senior management. 
  • Oversight mechanisms for clinical research. 
  • Paediatric home care: a systematic review of randomized trials on costs and effectiveness. 
  • Patient demographics and health plan paid costs in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. 
  • Patient risk or physician practice: what factors drive resource use in unstable angina? 
  • Patient-physician discussions about costs: definitions and impact on cost conversation incidence estimates. 
  • Patterns of care for clinically distinct segments of high cost Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Penetration, Completeness, and Representativeness of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Percutaneous liver biopsy: a cost-benefit analysis comparing sonographic and CT guidance. 
  • Percutaneous nephrostolithotomy vs open surgery for renal calculi. A comparative study. 
  • Personal emergency response systems. 
  • Perverse incentives in the Medicare prescription drug benefit. 
  • Pharmacoeconomics of antifungal pharmacotherapy--challenges and future directions. 
  • Pharmacoeconomics, quality of life, and combination modalities in non-small cell lung cancer: a panel discussion (Part 2). 
  • Pharmacy cost evaluation of risperidone, olanzapine, and quetiapine for the treatment of schizophrenia in acute care inpatient settings. 
  • Philosophic perspectives on access to health care: distributive justice in health care. 
  • Physician-related barriers to breast cancer screening in older women. 
  • Plastic-based acoustofluidic devices for high-throughput, biocompatible platelet separation. 
  • Platelet transfusions: utilization and associated costs in a tertiary care hospital. 
  • Political economy of marine reserves: understanding the role of opportunity costs. 
  • Postoperative nausea and vomiting following inpatient surgeries in a teaching hospital: a retrospective database analysis. 
  • Predicting Costs Exceeding Bundled Payment Targets for Total Joint Arthroplasty. 
  • Predicting the cost of illness: a comparison of alternative models applied to stroke. 
  • Prevalence and Cost Analysis of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): A Role for Neuromodulation. 
  • Prevention of low back pain in the military cluster randomized trial: effects of brief psychosocial education on total and low back pain-related health care costs. 
  • Price differentiation and transparency in the global pharmaceutical marketplace. 
  • Pricing strategy to promote fruit and vegetable purchase in high school cafeterias. 
  • Prior and current costs in capitated health plans: the effects of health status at enrollment. 
  • Private demand for cholera vaccines in Beira, Mozambique. 
  • Projecting the impact of AIDS on hospitals. 
  • Prospective payment for hospital capital by Medicare: issues and options. 
  • Prospective, randomized comparison of proximal crescentic and proximal chevron osteotomies for correction of hallux valgus deformity. 
  • Public access failure at PubMed. 
  • Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of volume of low osmolality contrast medium needed for routine helical abdominal CT. 
  • Randomised controlled trial of near-patient testing for glycated haemoglobin in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. 
  • Randomized Trial of Population-Based Clinical Decision Support to Facilitate Care Transitions. 
  • Randomized comparison of the cost and effectiveness of iopamidol and diatrizoate as contrast agents for cardiac angiography. 
  • Rapid brain autopsy. The Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center experience. 
  • Re: Unenhanced helical computerized tomography for the evaluation of patients with acute flank pain. 
  • Reconsidering quality. 
  • Recruiting older women for screening mammography. 
  • Reduced length of hospital stay in colorectal surgery after implementation of an enhanced recovery protocol. 
  • Reductions in human papillomavirus-disease resource use and costs with quadrivalent human papillomavirus (types 6, 11, 16, and 18) recombinant vaccination: the FUTURE Study Economic Evaluation. 
  • Relationship between clinical outcomes and vascular access type among hemodialysis patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Reply: Each procedure matters: threshold for surgeon volume to minimize complications and decrease cost associated with adrenalectomy. 
  • Residential Solar PV Systems in the Carolinas: Opportunities and Outcomes. 
  • Resistance diagnosis and the changing economics of antibiotic discovery. 
  • Resolving Malpractice Disputes: Imaging the Jury's Shadow 
  • Resource costing for multinational neurologic clinical trials: methods and results. 
  • Resource use and cost of initial coronary revascularization. Coronary angioplasty versus coronary bypass surgery. 
  • Resource use, costs, and utility estimates for patients with cystic fibrosis with mild impairment in lung function: analysis of data collected alongside a 48-week multicenter clinical trial. 
  • Returns to R&D on new drug introductions in the 1980s. 
  • Risk and healthcare costs of chemotherapy-induced neutropenic complications in women with metastatic breast cancer. 
  • Risk stratification for adverse economic outcomes in cardiac surgery. 
  • Role of urine and serum protein electrophoresis in evaluation of nephrotic-range proteinuria. 
  • Scale-up and cost evaluation of a foamed emulsion bioreactor. 
  • Science and law. View from the bench: patents and material transfers. 
  • Selective cardiac surveillance in patients with gynecologic cancer undergoing treatment with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD). 
  • Service costs of caring for adolescents with mental illness in a rural community, 1993-2000. 
  • Skilled Nursing Facilities After Total Knee Arthroplasty: The Time for Selective Partnerships Is Now! 
  • Spending on postapproval drug safety. 
  • Squeezing the "value" from cost data. 
  • Stereolithography: a historical review and indications for use in the management of trauma. 
  • Stereotactic breast biopsy of noncalcified lesions: a cost-minimization analysis comparing 14-gauge multipass automated core biopsy to 14- and 11-gauge vacuum-assisted biopsy. 
  • Strategies for improving patient compliance. 
  • Successful use of education and cost-based feedback strategies to reduce physician utilization of low-osmolality contrast agents in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. 
  • Surgeons OverSeas Assessment of Surgical Need (SOSAS) Uganda: Update for Household Survey. 
  • Surgeons' economic profiles: can we get the "right" answers? 
  • Surgical approaches for the correction of unstable thoracolumbar burst fractures: a retrospective analysis of treatment outcomes. 
  • Survey finds few orthopedic surgeons know the costs of the devices they implant. 
  • Telephone-based self-management of osteoarthritis: A randomized trial. 
  • Tension-free inguinal hernia repair: the design of a trial to compare open and laparoscopic surgical techniques. 
  • The 'offset effect' of mental health treatment on ambulatory medical care utilization and charges. Month-by-month and grouped-month analyses of a five-year study. 
  • The Burden of the "False-Negatives" in Clinical Development: Analyses of Current and Alternative Scenarios and Corrective Measures. 
  • The Final frontier. 
  • The Patient Self-Determination Act and the future of advance directives. 
  • The Uniformed Services University's Surgical Critical Care Initiative (SC2i): Bringing Precision Medicine to the Critically Ill. 
  • The Value of Information in Decision-Analytic Modeling for Malaria Vector Control in East Africa 
  • The YMCA Healthy, Fit, and Strong Program: a community-based, family-centered, low-cost obesity prevention/treatment pilot study. 
  • The business case for bariatric surgery revisited: a non-randomized case-control study. 
  • The cardiac diagnostic unit. A new approach to patient care. 
  • The cost implications of an early versus delayed invasive strategy in Acute Coronary Syndromes: the TIMACS study. 
  • The cost of 'free' tuberculosis care. 
  • The cost of acute myocardial infarction in the new millennium: evidence from a multinational registry. 
  • The cost of auditing outpatient records. 
  • The cost of self-imposed regulatory burden in animal research. 
  • The cost of visual impairment: purposes, perspectives, and guidance. 
  • The costs of drugs used to treat myelodysplastic syndromes following National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guidelines. 
  • The costs of gun violence against children. 
  • The course of acute myocardial infarction. Feasibility of early discharge of the uncomplicated patient. 
  • The distribution of sales revenues from pharmaceutical innovation. 
  • The economic consequences of available diagnostic and prognostic strategies for the evaluation of stable angina patients: an observational assessment of the value of precatheterization ischemia. Economics of Noninvasive Diagnosis (END) Multicenter Study Group. 
  • The epidemiology of chronic critical illness in the United States*. 
  • The financial impact of orthopaedic fellowship training. 
  • The fragility of the U.S. vaccine supply. 
  • The future of clinical trials in secondary prevention after acute coronary syndromes. 
  • The health and economic burden of genital warts in a set of private health plans in the United States. 
  • The health care burden of unstable angina. 
  • The impact of bariatric surgery on the Veterans Administration healthcare system: a cost analysis. 
  • The impact of bivalirudin on percutaneous coronary intervention-related bleeding. 
  • The impact of food prices on consumption: a systematic review of research on the price elasticity of demand for food. 
  • The impact of prenatally diagnosed Klinefelter Syndrome on obstetric and neonatal outcomes. 
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  • The medical record: a comprehensive computer system for the family physician. 
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  • The price of innovation: new estimates of drug development costs. 
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  • The role of laparoscopy in the management of suspected pancreatic and periampullary malignancies. 
  • The use of Grade of Membership analysis to evaluate and modify diagnosis-related groups. 
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  • Treatment considerations for persons with metastatic prostate cancer: survival versus out-of-pocket costs. 
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  • Uncovering the high costs of teaching hospitals. 
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  • Unions and hospitals: some unresolved issues. 
  • Use of Smartphone for Verbal Autopsy. 
  • Use of antimicrobial drugs in adults before and after removal of a restriction policy. 
  • Use of the perfusion balloon as a primary dilation device. 
  • Utilization of diagnostic tests: assessing appropriateness. 
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  • VA community-based outpatient clinics: cost performance measures. 
  • Value of the periodic health evaluation. 
  • Variability in cost of coronary bypass surgery in New York State: potential for cost savings. 
  • Web-based interventions in nursing. 
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  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Clements III, Dennis Alfred, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, School of Nursing
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Jowell, Paul Simon, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Moon, Richard Edward, Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Olson, Steven Arthur, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics
  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Professor of Radiology, Pathology
  • Pratson, Lincoln F., Gendell Family Professor of Energy and Environment, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Professor of Urology, Surgery
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Starmer, Charles Franklin, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Computer Science
  • Strand de Oliveira, Justine, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program
  • Swaminathan, Madhav, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic