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Open AccessDesloratadine Exposure and Incidence of Seizure: A Nordic Post-authorization Safety Study Using a New-User Cohort Study Design, 2001–2015
A small number of adverse events of seizure in patients using desloratadine (DL) have been reported. The European Medicines Agency requested a post-authorization safety study to investigate whether there is an...
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Open AccessModelling the cost-effectiveness of person-centred care for patients with acute coronary syndrome
Person-centred care has been shown to be cost-effective compared to usual care for several diseases, including acute coronary syndrome, in a short-term time perspective (< 2 years). The cost-effectiveness of p...
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Open AccessPerson-Centred Care in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Alongside a Randomised Controlled Trial
Costs associated with an ACS incident are most pronounced in the acute phase but are also considerably long after the initial hospitalisation, partly due to considerable productivity losses, which constitute a...
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Open AccessStudy protocol of SWEPIS a Swedish multicentre register based randomised controlled trial to compare induction of labour at 41 completed gestational weeks versus expectant management and induction at 42 completed gestational weeks
Observational data shows that postterm pregnancy (≥42 gestational weeks, GW) and late term pregnancy (≥41 GW), as compared to term pregnancy, is associated with an increased risk for adverse outcome for the mo...
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Open AccessThe cost-effectiveness of growth hormone replacement therapy (Genotropin®) in hypopituitary adults in Sweden
To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of growth hormone (GH) treatment (Genotropin®) compared with no GH treatment in adults with GH deficiency in a Swedish societal setting.
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Epilepsy in Sweden: health care costs and loss of productivity—a register-based approach
The objective was to estimate health care costs and productivity losses due to epilepsy in Sweden and to compare these estimates to previously published estimates.
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Pancreatic Cancer, Healthcare Cost, and Loss of Productivity: A Register-based Approach
Despite the fact that pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death, there is little empirical evidence on its direct healthcare costs and, especially, its indirect costs due to loss of...
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Open AccessOptimizing cost-efficiency in mean exposure assessment - cost functions reconsidered
Reliable exposure data is a vital concern in medical epidemiology and intervention studies. The present study addresses the needs of the medical researcher to spend monetary resources devoted to exposure asses...
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Utilisation of physician services in the 50+ population: the relative importance of individual versus institutional factors in 10 European countries
We analysed the relative importance of individual versus institutional factors in explaining variations in the utilisation of physician services among the 50+ in ten European countries. The importance of the l...
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Alimony
Alimony is a payment, at divorce, from one spouse to the other; the literal meaning of the word is nourishment or substance (see Cohen 1987). Before the enactment of contemporary no-fault divorce regimes, alim...
