Objetive: To assess the cost effectiveness of unrelated stem cell transplantation versus consolidation chemotherapy in pediatric population with high-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML).Methods: A decision tree model was built with life years gained as outcome, from the perspective of the health...

Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of 18FDG-PET/CT compared to CT followed by 18FDG-PET/CT as a confirmatory test for a positive case at the end of treatment in patients less than 18 years with Hodgkin lymphoma.Materials and Methods: A decision tree in TreeAge® was built to compare...

Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) compared to flow cytometry to detect minimal residual disease at the end of induction in acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) patients under 18 years old.Methods: A decision tree was built in TreeAge®, with outcome measured...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo revisa las ideas de Coase sobre la metodología en economía a partir de su crítica de Friedman y las compara con ideas provenientes de otros campos. Argumenta que su adaptación de Kuhn es más apropiada para la economía en su forma actual que para la época...

Spanish Abstract: Este ensayo analiza tres procesos electorales que tuvieron resultados inesperados: la salida del Reino Unido de la Unión Europea, el rechazo del acuerdo de paz en Colombia y la elección de Trump como presidente de Estados Unidos. Subraya tres aspectos: las predicciones se...

The paper presents an overview of the several sources used by researchers in economics and related fields. It shows the features and advantages of these sources, the characteristics than in this discipline have books, articles and journals, as well as how they are ranked and how impact...

The efficacy of tax reforms is estimated for the period 1973-2000 using three ARIMAX models for the real revenue and the revenue/GDP ratio. The analysis, including only those reforms changing tax bases and/or tariffs, or that aim to increase revenue or reduce evasion, shows that only two out of...

Based on literary sources and following Marshall Berman and Benedict Anderson's theory, this article outlines some key tendencies of English society prior to World War I. Economic modernization and political imperialism emerged while the cultural avant garde (i.e., modernism) was pushed into the...

Spanish Abstract: Se presentan los modelos de expectativas racionales y cómo resolverlos mediante el método de coeficientes indeterminados. El nivel de complejidad es el de un curso de macroeconomía intermedia

Objetive: To conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis comparing tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors in adyuvant treatment of hormone receptor-positive, post-menopausal early breast cancer patients.Methods: Effectivity was defined as disease-free survival. By means of a Markov model we estimated the...