Volume 2•Issue 3

Mustafa ‘Mike’ Z Younis was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Research of Healthcare Financial Management and is an Editorial Board member or manuscript reviewer for several national and international journals. As an ...

Evaluation of: SPARTAC Trial Investigators, Fidler S, Porter K et al. Short-course antiretroviral therapy in primary HIV infection. N. Engl. J. Med. 368, 207–217 (2013). The timing of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in patients who present with primary HIV ...

Evaluation of: Farkouh ME, Domanski M, Sleeper LA et al. Strategies for multivessel revascularization in patients with diabetes. N. Engl. J. Med. 367, 2375–2384 (2012). The FREEDOM trial enrolled 1900 patients with diabetes and multivessel coronary ...

This article develops a framework for understanding how financial and nonfinancial incentives can complicate point-of-care decision-making by physicians, leading to the overuse or underuse of healthcare services. By examining the types of decisions that ...

This article reviews the recent research, policy and conceptual literature on the effects of payment policy reforms on evidence-based clinical decision-making by physicians at the point-of-care. Payment reforms include recalibration of existing fee ...

Use of comparative effectiveness information in local healthcare decisions can be confounded by variations in practice, barriers to access and population demographics. The New England Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council was convened as a ...

Systematic reviews are being increasingly used to inform all levels of healthcare, from bedside decisions to policy-making. Since they are designed to minimize bias and subjectivity, they are a preferred option to assess the comparative effectiveness and ...

The use of health technology assessment research in emerging economies is becoming an increasingly important tool to determine the uses of health spending. As low- and middle-income countries’ gross domestic product grows, the funding available for ...

Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among men in the USA. Use of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) for the management of localized prostate cancer has increased dramatically in recent years. This review focuses on ...

Aim: To assess, through a systematic review, evidence for the effects of antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) on cardiovascular (CV) hospitalization and mortality. Materials & methods: English language articles were identified using MEDLINE, EMBASE and the ...

Aims: This study aimed to identify methods to engage hard-to-reach patients in the research process. Materials & methods: With funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (Washington, DC, USA), the University of Maryland (MD, USA) ...

Background: Breast cancer tumor markers are used by some clinicians to screen for disease recurrence risk. Since there is limited evidence of benefit, additional research may be warranted. Aim: To assess the potential value of a randomized clinical trial ...

Aim: Tobacco smoke contains many chemicals that are harmful and cause carcinogenesis. The aim of this study was to confirm the relationship between smoking and changes in respiratory functional and laboratory parameters comparing, in particular, smoking-...