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In 2009, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued supplementary advice to its Appraisal … cost-effective. However, NICE’s public consultation revealed concerns that there is little scientific evidence to support … single ‘consensus’ set of preferences, we conclude that there are ways in which the results suggest that the current NICE …
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A source of debate in the field of health care priority setting is whether health gains should be weighted differently for different groups of patients. The debate has recently focused on the relative value of life extensions for patients with short life expectancy. However, few studies have...
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Clinical practice guidelines produced by NICE – the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence – are seen as key … mechanisms to regulate and standardise UK healthcare practice, but their development is known to be problematic, and their … the response of healthcare professionals to publication of a single NICE guideline in 2009 which proposed a re …
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Remanufacturing is a process of recovering used products to a like-new condition. It can potentially achieve considerable economic, environmental and social benefits in many applications. However, its economic benefit varies for different products and remanufacturing processes. This research...
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This article describes the residential trajectories and places of residence of patients over their last month of life, based on the end-of-life survey La Fin de vie en France, conducted in 2010 on a representative sample of deaths occurring in December 2009. The physicians who had certified the...
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The possibility of weighting QALYs differently for different groups of patients has been a source of debate. Most recently, this debate has been extended to the relative value of QALYs at the end of life (EoL). The objective of this study is to provide evidence of societal preferences in...
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