We develop a "welfarist" model in which the collective demand for health insurance is mainly explained by a solvability motive : health insurance does not have for principal function to treat the risk aversion of solvent agents but to make it possible to individuals who are too poor to assume...

Aims: To assess the impact of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) on patient-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Methods: Two HRQOL instruments were administered by telephone interviews to a sample of 253 IBS French patients recruited from the general population. IBS was diagnosed...

Rationnel Les études médicoéconomiques sont rares dans l'arthrose. Son traitement par acide hyaluronique conduit-il à un surcoût ? Méthodes Étude observationnelle, multicentrique, longitudinale de type « avant–après » évaluant les conséquences médicoéconomiques d'un traitement...

Docetaxel in combination with the conventional anticancer agents doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide (TAC) has shown better efficacy than 5-fluorouracil (5FU) combined with the same agents (FAC) as adjuvant treatment for women with early breast cancer in a randomised controlled trial (BCIRG001)....