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2012

Poulos, C., A. Riewpaiboon, J.F. Stewart, J. Clemens, S. Guh, M. Agtini, D. Sur, Z. Islam, M. Lucas, and D. Whittington. (2012). "Costs of illness due to endemic cholera." Epidemiology and Infection, 140(03):500-509.

SUMMARYEconomic analyses of cholera immunization programmes require estimates of the costs of cholera. The Diseases of the Most Impoverished programme measured the public, provider, and patient... Full Abstract »

Walters, B., E.B. Andrews, and N. Moore. (2012). "Neurological adverse events." In Mann's Pharmacovigilance, 3rd ed., In Press Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd..

Huybrechts, K.F., K.J. Rothman, M.A. Brookhart, R.A. Silliman, S. Crystal, T. Gerhard, and S. Schneeweiss. (2012). "Variation in antipsychotic treatment choice across US nursing homes." Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 32(1):11-17.

Objective: Despite serious safety concerns, antipsychotic medications continue to be used widely in US nursing homes. The objective of this study was to quantify the variation in antipsychotic... Full Abstract »

DiBenedetti, D.B., N. Danchenko, C. Francois, S. Lewis, K.H. Davis, and S.E. Fehnel. (2012). "Development of a family functioning scale for major depressive disorder." Current Medical Research and Opinion, Just Accepted Online.

Objective: To better understand depression’s impact on family functioning from the perspectives of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and their partners; to develop and test patient and... Full Abstract »

Hoogeveen, E.K., N. Halbesma, K.J. Rothman, T. Stijnen, S. van Dijk, F.W. Dekker, E.W. Boeschoten, and R. de Mutsert. (2012). "Obesity and mortality risk among younger dialysis patients." Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Published Ahead of Print.

Background and objectives Many studies show that obesity in dialysis patients is not strongly associated with mortality but not whether this modest association is constant over age. This study... Full Abstract »

Mangel, A.W., and G.A. Hicks. (2012). "Asimadoline and its potential for the treatment of diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome: A review." Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology, 5:1-10.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a multifactorial condition with principal symptoms of pain and altered bowel function. The kappa-opioid agonist asimadoline is being evaluated in Phase III as a... Full Abstract »

Lavonas, E.J., J.F. Fries, D.E. Furst, K.J. Rothman, A. Stergachis, A.J. Vaida, D. Zelterman, K.M. Reynolds, J.L. Green, and R.C. Dart. (2012). "Comparative risks of non-prescription analgesics: A structured topic review and research priorities." Expert Opinion on Drug Safety, 11(1):33-44.

Objective: The aims of this report are to quantify and compare competing risks associated with the use of non-prescription analgesics (daily doses of acetaminophen ? 4000 mg, aspirin ? 4000 mg,... Full Abstract »

Strutton, D.R., R.A. Farkouh, S.R. Earnshaw, S. Hwang, U. Theidel, S. Kontodimas, R. Klok, and S. Papanicolaou. (2012). "Cost-effectiveness of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: Germany, Greece, and The Netherlands." Journal of Infection , 64(1):54-67.

Background - Seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) had profound public-health impacts and is considered cost-effective and potentially cost saving. Two new PCVs have been launched, a... Full Abstract »

Mauskopf, J., A. Brogan, S.E. Talbird, and S. Martin. (2012). "Cost-effectiveness of combination therapy with etravirine in treatment-experienced adults with HIV-1 infection." AIDS, 26(3):355-364.

Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of etravirine (INTELENCE), a novel nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, used in combination with a background regimen that included... Full Abstract »

Mauskopf, J.A., J.B. Graham, J.P. Bae, K. Ramaswamy, A.J. Zagar, E.A. Magnuson, D.J. Cohen, and E.S. Meadows. (2012). "Cost-effectiveness of prasugrel in a US managed care population." Journal of Medical Economics, 15(1):166-174.

Objective: Decision-makers in the US may be interested in the applicability to their populations of cost-effectiveness results generated from clinical trial populations. Methods: An economic model... Full Abstract »

Qi, J., Y. Yang, H. Zhu, J. Wang, Y. Jia, N. Liu, Y. Song, L. Zan, X. Zhang, M. Zhou, Y. Gu, D.G. Hicks, and P. Tang. (2012). "Expression of the androgen receptor and its correlation with molecular subtypes in 980 Chinese breast cancer patients." Breast Cancer: Basic and Clinical Research, 6:1-8.

Background: Recent studies have shown that androgen displays an inhibitory effect on breast cancer cell lines that express androgen receptor (AR) but not estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone... Full Abstract »

Toback, S.L., R. Beigi, P. Tennis, F. Sifakis, B. Calingaert, and C.S. Ambrose. (2012). "Maternal outcomes among pregnant women receiving live attenuated influenza vaccine." Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 6(1):44-51.

Background? Although the live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) prescribing information contains warnings/precautions against use during pregnancy, administration of LAIV to pregnant women does... Full Abstract »

Jiang, J.Q., and L.J. Mcquay. (2012). "Modularity functions maximization with nonnegative relaxation facilitates community detection in networks." Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, 391(3):854-865.

We show here that the problem of maximizing a family of quantitative functions, encompassing both the modularity (Q-measure) and modularity density (D-measure). for community detection can be... Full Abstract »

Graham, C.N., J.A. Mauskopf, A.H. Lawson, H. Ascher-Svanum, and D. Bruhn. (2012). "Updating and confirming an industry-sponsored pharmacoeconomic model: Comparing two antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia." Value in Health, 15(1):55-64.

Objective This study updated a 2001 decision economic model that used indirect data and confirmed its findings by developing a new cost-effectiveness model by using now available head-to-head data.... Full Abstract »

2011

Rassen, J.A., R.J. Glynn, K.J. Rothman, S. Setoguchi, and S. Schneeweiss. (2011). "Applying propensity scores estimated in a full cohort to adjust for confounding in subgroup analyses." Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, Early View.

Background A correctly specified propensity score (PS) estimated in a cohort (“cohort PS”) should, in expectation, remain valid in a subgroup population. Objective We sought to determine whether... Full Abstract »

Herring, W.L., and J.W. Herrmann. (2011). "A stochastic dynamic program for the single-day surgery scheduling problem." IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering , 1(4):213-225.

Scheduling elective surgeries involves sequential decision-making on the part of the operating room (OR) manager, who must continually balance the costs of deferring waiting cases and blocking... Full Abstract »

Myers, J.A., J.A. Rassen, J.J. Gagne, K.F. Huybrechts, S. Schneeweiss, K.J. Rothman, M.M. Joffe, and R.J. Glynn. (2011). "Effects of adjusting for instrumental variables on bias and precision of effect estimates." American Journal of Epidemiology, 174(11):1213-1222.

Recent theoretical studies have shown that conditioning on an instrumental variable (IV), a variable that is associated with exposure but not associated with outcome except through exposure, can... Full Abstract »

Wu, Y., M.M. Amonkar, B.H. Sherrill, J. O'Shaughnessy, C. Ellis, J. Baselga, K.L. Blackwell, and H.J. Burstein. (2011). "Impact of lapatinib plus trastuzumab versus single-agent lapatinib on quality of life of patients with trastuzumab-refractory HER2+ metastatic breast cancer." Annals of Oncology, 22(12):2582-2590.

BACKGROUND: Progression-free survival (PFS) was significantly longer for the lapatinib plus trastuzumab (L+T) arm than for L alone in a phase III, randomized, open-label study of women with human... Full Abstract »

Sherrill, B., B. Sherif, M.M. Amonkar, J. Maltzman, L. O'Rourke, and S. Johnston. (2011). "Quality-adjusted survival analysis of first-line treatment of hormone-receptor-positive HER2+ metastatic breast cancer with letrozole alone or in combination with lapatinib." Current Medical Research and Opinion, 27(12):2245-2252.

Abstract Aim: Compare first-line lapatinib plus letrozole (L + Let) versus letrozole monotherapy (Let) in hormone-receptor-positive HER2 + metastatic breast cancer, employing Q-TWiST... Full Abstract »

Williams, L.K., E.L. Peterson, K. Wells, B.K. Ahmedani, R. Kumar, E.G. Burchard, V.K. Chowdhry, D. Favro, D.E. Lanfear, and M. Pladevall. (2011). "Quantifying the proportion of severe asthma exacerbations attributable to inhaled corticosteroid nonadherence." Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 128(6):1185-1191.

Background - Asthma is an inflammatory condition often punctuated by episodic symptomatic worsening, and accordingly, patients with asthma might have waxing and waning adherence to controller therapy.... Full Abstract »

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