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Different considerations in economic impacts of aircraft noise
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Projecting the economic burden of health impacts of aircraft noise: a case study of Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
While the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) in the United States optimizes flight patterns, it has led to the unintended consequence of increasing aircraft noise exposure in some communities ...
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Direct Medical Costs of COPD in the USA: An Analysis of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2017–2018
In this study, we aimed to provide a nationally representative estimate of the economic burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by examining direct medical costs among individuals aged 45 years ...
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Open AccessThe cost-effectiveness of standalone HEPA filtration units for the prevention of airborne SARS CoV-2 transmission
Airborne infection from aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 poses an economic challenge for businesses without existing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. The Environmental Protection Agency notes t...
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Open AccessA personalized biomedical risk assessment infographic for people who smoke with COPD: a qualitative study
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes 3 million deaths each year, yet 38% of COPD patients continue to smoke. Despite proof of effectiveness and universal guideline recommendations, smoking cessa...
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Depressive Symptoms and Sexually Transmitted Disease: Evidence from a Low-Income Neighborhood of New York City
We examined the association between sexually transmitted disease (STD) and depressive symptoms. Our analysis utilized the 2015 cross-sectional Washington Heights Community Survey. Multivariable binary logistic...
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The Cost-Effectiveness of Bike Share Expansion to Low-Income Communities in New York City
The “Citi Bike” bike share program in New York City is the largest bike share program in the USA. We ask whether expanding this program to lower-income communities is cost-effective means of encouraging exerci...
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Open AccessCost-effectiveness of tiotropium versus omalizumab for uncontrolled allergic asthma in US
A significant minority of asthma patients remain uncontrolled despite the use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and long-acting beta-agonists (LABA). A number of add-on therapies, including monoclonal antibodie...
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Pioglitazone and bladder cancer risk: a multipopulation pooled, cumulative exposure analysis
The evidence on the association between pioglitazone use and bladder cancer is contradictory, with many studies subject to allocation bias. The aim of our study was to examine the effect of exposure to pioglit...
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Network vs. Pairwise Meta-Analyses: A Case Study of the Impact of an Evidence-Synthesis Paradigm on Value of Information Outcomes
To evaluate the impact of using two evidence-synthesis paradigms, pairwise meta-analysis (PMA) vs. network meta-analysis (NMA), on the expected value of information (EVI) outcomes, using pharmacotherapy of chr...
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Open AccessThe impact of incorporating Bayesian network meta-analysis in cost-effectiveness analysis - a case study of pharmacotherapies for moderate to severe COPD
To evaluate the impact of using network meta-analysis (NMA) versus pair wise meta-analyses (PMA) for evidence synthesis on key outputs of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA).
