Purpose: To determine whether-interferon is effective in terminating viral replication and in
eradicating the carrier state in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Data …

Meta-analysis is the process of combining study results that can be used to draw
conclusions about therapeutic effectiveness or to plan new studies. We review important …

Cost-effectiveness analysis can be used to help set priorities for funding health care
programs. For each intervention, the costs and clinical outcomes associated with that …

Presented and described in detail is a clinical technique called subjective global
assessment (SGA), which assesses nutritional status based on features of the history and …

ContextSevere acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an emerging infectious disease that
first manifested in humans in China in November 2002 and has subsequently spread …

Because economic evaluations of health care services are being published with increasing
frequency it is important to (a) evaluate them rigorously and (b) compare the net benefit of …

THE diagnosis of protein-calorie malnutrition is often based on objective measurements of
nutritional status, 1 including assessments of hepatic secretory proteins (serum albumin and …

THE AMOUNT OF DATA BEING DIGITALLY COLLECTED AND stored is vast and
expanding rapidly. As a result, the science of data management and analysis is also …

ContextIncreasing contact has been reported between physicians and the pharmaceutical
industry, although no data exist in the literature regarding potential financial conflicts of …

The authors prospectively studied 455 consecutive patients referred to the general medical
consultation service for cardiac risk assessment prior to non-cardiac surgery, in order to …