Background: The aim of this study was to identify costs in patients diagnosed with Celiac disease. Methods: This retrospective case control study covered the period 2003-2006 and was conducted in a large Israeli Health Maintenance Organization insuring over two million members. Our cohort...

Background: The aim of this study was to identify costs in patients diagnosed with Celiac disease. Methods: This retrospective case control study covered the period 2003–2006 and was conducted in a large Israeli Health Maintenance Organization insuring over two million members. Our cohort...

Several researchers characterized the activation functions under which multilayer feedforwardnetworks can act as universal approximators. We show that all the characterizationsthat were reported thus far in the literature ark special cases of the following general result:a standard multilayer...

Several researchers characterized the activation function under which multilayer feedforwardnetworks can act as universal approximators. We show that most of all the characterizationsthat were reported thus far in the literature are special cases of the followinggeneral result: a standard...

We compare experts' judgments of the appropriateness of a treatment (interferon treatment for melanoma) on the basis of important attributes of this disease (thickness, ulceration, lymph node involvement and type of metastases) to a decision analytic model in which the probabilities of...

The main objective of risk adjustment in systems of regulated competition on health insurance markets is the removal of incentives for undesirable risk selection. We introduce a simple conceptual framework to clarify how the definition of "acceptable costs" and the distinction between legitimate...