Published in Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.)
Our baseline estimates indicate that survival outcomes are poor and costs are high for patients receiving standard treatment. Understanding the relative improvement accruing from any new treatment requires a comparison with the existing standard of care.
The present study investigates acceptance of intervention strategies for low-calorie snack choices that vary regarding the effect they have on consumers’ freedom of choice (providing information, guiding choice through (dis)incentives, and restricting choice). We examine the mediating effects of perceived effectiveness and perceived fairness, and t...
International audience
International audience
Published in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Brief advice from a health-care worker, telephone helplines, automated text messaging, printed self-help materials, cytisine and nortriptyline are globally affordable health-care interventions to promote and assist smoking cessation. Evidence on smokeless tobacco cessation suggests that face-to-face behavioural support and varenicline can promote c...
Published in British journal of community nursing
This article discusses the use of a foam dressing for exudate management in both chronic and acute wounds, such as surgical wounds, pressure ulcers, diabetic ulcers, trauma wounds, and leg ulcers. The primary objective of the study was to observe patients' wound progression in terms of wound size and the condition of the wound bed, when using this ...
Published in Emergency medicine journal : EMJ
The investigated interventions have mixed effectiveness. Our findings suggest the hospital-based interventions have relatively poorer effects, and should be better connected to the community-based strategies. Interventions seem to achieve the most success with integration of multi-layered elements, especially when incorporating key elements such as...
Published in Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science
BackgroundThis study serves as a follow-up to a March 2012 analysis conducted by Frank Sasinowski that reviewed the quantum of effectiveness evidence that is required to secure FDA approval of therapies for rare diseases, or orphan drugs, from the 1983 enactment of the Orphan Drug Act through June 30, 2010. The current study was designed to determi...
La littérature consacrée au personnel soignant décrit un malaise d’envergure internationale. Plusieurs démarches préventives sont mises en œuvre afin de maintenir en emploi les soignants. Les démarches préventives de type primaire agissant directement sur l’organisation du travail ont des effets plus efficaces et durables sur le milieu de travail. ...
Published in Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy
Dulaglutide is effective in the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes but we need long follow-up data for safety concerns.
