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...

A decision tree is used to assess the cost effectiveness of adding the type B natriuretic peptid to the revised Lee index of cardiovascular risk. The Lee=3 strategy is cost effective for a WTP lower than Col $11.292.903 at a cost per patient of Col $79.452. Lee strategy with a threshold of 3 has...

Introduction: An estimated 1,399 new cases of pancreatic cancer (PC) and 1,406 deaths from the same cause occurred in Colombia in 2002. We evaluate the cost-effectiveness of multidetector computed tomography (CT), endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) and positron emission tomography with computed...

Resumen: El artículo presenta una revisión de literatura sobre la aversión al riesgo en la toma de decisiones médicas. Se cubrieron las bases de datos Econlit, Jstor, Science Direct y Springer Link desde 1985. Los resultados se dividen en tres temas: la aversión al riesgo desde las teorías...