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Quality of life in patients with various Barrett's esophagus associated health statesChin Hur
Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 4:45. 2006..The purpose of this study was to determine the health related quality of life associated with Barrett's esophagus and many of the pivotal health states associated with Barrett's HGD management...
A framework for assessing the value of diagnostic imaging in the era of comparative effectiveness researchG Scott Gazelle
Department of Radiology, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, 101 Merrimac St, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02114 4724, USA
Radiology 261:692-8. 2011....
Cost-effectiveness analysis in the assessment of diagnostic imaging technologiesG Scott Gazelle
Institute for Technology Assessment and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 101 Merrimac St, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02114 4724, USA
Radiology 235:361-70. 2005..The article will then conclude with a consideration of the limits of medical technology assessment...- Patient preferences for the chemoprevention of esophageal adenocarcinoma in Barrett's esophagusChin Hur
Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 103:2432-42. 2008..Our aim was to determine and characterize preferences for these two drugs in patients with BE... - Cost-effectiveness of photodynamic therapy for treatment of Barrett's esophagus with high grade dysplasiaChin Hur
Gastrointestinal Unit and Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Dig Dis Sci 48:1273-83. 2003..In conclusion, PDT increases life expectancy and is cost-effective when compared to endoscopic surveillance and surgical esophagectomy... - Cost-effectiveness of aspirin chemoprevention for Barrett's esophagusChin Hur
Gastrointestinal Unit and The Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 96:316-25. 2004..We used a modeling approach to determine and compare the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of aspirin with and without endoscopic surveillance to prevent esophageal adenocarcinoma... - Metastatic colorectal carcinoma: cost-effectiveness of percutaneous radiofrequency ablation versus that of hepatic resectionG Scott Gazelle
Institute for Technology Assessment and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Zero Emerson Place, Suite 2H, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Radiology 233:729-39. 2004..However, in most scenarios, hepatic resection is more effective (in terms of QALYs gained) than RF ablation and has an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of less than $35 000 per QALY... - Clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness of coronary computed tomography angiography in the evaluation of patients with chest painJoseph A Ladapo
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 54:2409-22. 2009.... 
Cost-effectiveness of prophylactic surgery for duodenal cancer in familial adenomatous polyposisWesley H Greenblatt
Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:2677-84. 2009..Because no clinical trials have assessed this recommendation, a modeling approach was used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of various treatment strategies...- Comparison of preference-based utilities of the Short-Form 36 Health Survey and Health Utilities Index before and after treatment of patients with intermittent claudicationJohanna L Bosch
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Med Decis Making 22:403-9. 2002..The results suggest that SF-36 data can be transformed to preference-based utilities and be used for economic evaluation in health care. The gain in utilities from treatment, however, was less for SF-36 utilities than for HUI utilities... - Decision-analytic evaluation of the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of management programmes in chronic heart failureAlexander Göhler
Institute for Technology Assessment and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114 4724, USA
Eur J Heart Fail 10:1026-32. 2008..While management programmes (MPs) for chronic heart failure (CHF) are clinically effective, their cost-effectiveness remains uncertain. Thus, this study sought to determine the cost-effectiveness of MPs... - Cost-effectiveness of breast MR imaging and screen-film mammography for screening BRCA1 gene mutation carriersJanie M Lee
Department of Radiology, Institute for Technology Assessment, Division of Hematology Oncology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 101 Merrimac St, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Radiology 254:793-800. 2010..c) RSNA, 2010 Supplemental material: http://radiology.rsna.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1148/radiol.09091086/-/DC1... - Patient preferences for the management of high-grade dysplasia in Barrett's esophagusChin Hur
Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dig Dis Sci 50:116-25. 2005..In summary, when patients with Barrett's esophagus were presented with three options to manage HGD, the majority chose endoscopic surveillance. Familiarity with endoscopic surveillance was the predominant reason for the choice... - Analysis of aspirin-associated risks in healthy individualsChin Hur
Harvard Medical School, Institute for Technology Assessment and Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114 4719, USA
Ann Pharmacother 39:51-7. 2005..Aspirin therapy is widely accepted for patients with documented cardiovascular disease, but there is a growing trend among healthy individuals to use aspirin as primary prevention for both cardiovascular disease and cancer... - Cost-effectiveness of whole-body CT screeningMolly T Beinfeld
Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment, 101 Merrimac St, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02114-4724, USA
Radiology 234:415-22. 2005.... - Estimating long-term effectiveness of lung cancer screening in the Mayo CT screening studyPamela M McMahon
Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, 101 Merrimac St, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Radiology 248:278-87. 2008.... - The management of small polyps found by virtual colonoscopy: results of a decision analysisChin Hur
Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 5:237-44. 2007..Decision-analytic techniques were used to compare the outcomes of 2 management strategies for smaller (6-9 mm) polyps discovered by CTC... - The effect of prior colonic imaging on endoscopic productivity: potential impact of computed tomographic colonographyChin Hur
Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, 101 Merrimac Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 3:1124-7. 2005..This case-control study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that colonoscopy examinations resulting from FP CTC studies would take longer to complete than negative screening colonoscopies... - Adapting to a new system of surgical technologies and perioperative processes among cliniciansJames E Stahl
MGH Institute for Technology Assessment, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Surg Res 139:61-7. 2007..To understand learning and adaptation to a new system of surgical technologies and perioperative processes... - Estimation of mortality rates for disease simulation models using Bayesian evidence synthesisPamela M McMahon
Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Med Decis Making 26:497-511. 2006..This approach is suggested when modeling a disease that causes a large proportion of all-cause mortality, particularly when mortality from the disease of interest and other-cause mortality are both affected by the same risk factor... - Coxibs versus combination NSAID and PPI therapy for chronic pain: an exploration of the risks, benefits, and costsChin Hur
Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital Gastrointestinal Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02114, USA
Ann Pharmacother 40:1052-63. 2006.... - Radiofrequency ablation versus nephron-sparing surgery for small unilateral renal cell carcinoma: cost-effectiveness analysisPari V Pandharipande
Department of Radiology, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, 101 Merrimac St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Radiology 248:169-78. 2008.... - An analysis of the potential impact of computed tomographic colonography (virtual colonoscopy) on colonoscopy demandChin Hur
Gastrointestinal Unit, Harvard Medicasl School, Boston, MA, USA
Gastroenterology 127:1312-21. 2004..However, no formal analysis of the impact of CTC on colonoscopy demand has been reported... - Utility estimates for decision-analytic modeling in chronic heart failure--health states based on New York Heart Association classes and number of rehospitalizationsAlexander Göhler
Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Value Health 12:185-7. 2009..Our objective was to estimate utilities for New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification and number of cardiovascular rehospitalizations... - Abdominal aortic aneurysms: cost-effectiveness of elective endovascular and open surgical repairJohanna L Bosch
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Zero Emerson Pl, Suite 2H, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Radiology 225:337-44. 2002..To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of elective endovascular and open surgical repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) by taking into account short- and long-term outcomes... - Development, calibration, and validation of a U.S. white male population-based simulation model of esophageal adenocarcinomaChin Hur
Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e9483. 2010..S. and western world. The aim of the study was to begin the investigation of this rapid rise by developing, calibrating, and validating a mathematical disease simulation model of EAC using available epidemiologic data... - MRI and PET/CT for triaging stage IB clinically operable cervical cancer to appropriate therapy: decision analysis to assess patient outcomesPari V Pandharipande
Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, 101 Merrimac St, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 192:802-14. 2009..We evaluated the ability of pretreatment MRI and PET/CT to improve outcomes for patients with clinically staged International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) IB cervical cancer... - Calibration of disease simulation model using an engineering approachChung Yin Kong
Massachusetts General Hospital, Institute for Technology Assessment, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Value Health 12:521-9. 2009..e., yields the best fit). To address these two prominent challenges, we have applied an engineering approach to calibrate a microsimulation model, the Lung Cancer Policy Model (LCPM)... - Patient preferences for the chemoprevention of colorectal cancerChin Hur
Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Dig Dis Sci 54:2207-14. 2009..These data serve to inform physicians and researchers regarding the variability and factors that affect patient preferences for CRC chemoprevention... - Adopting helical CT screening for lung cancer: potential health consequences during a 15-year periodPamela M McMahon
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Cancer 113:3440-9. 2008..This study estimated changes in lung cancer outcomes through 2005, had chest CT screening been introduced in 1990... - Stroke: Effect of implementing an evaluation and treatment protocol compliant with NINDS recommendationsJames E Stahl
Institute for Technology Assessment and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Zero Emerson Bldg, Suite 2H, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Radiology 228:659-68. 2003.... - Deterministic sensitivity analysis for first-order Monte Carlo simulations: a technical noteBenjamin P Geisler
Institute for Technology Assessment, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Value Health 12:96-7. 2009..Our purpose was to facilitate one-way deterministic sensitivity analysis of TreeAge Markov state-transition models requiring first-order Monte Carlo simulations... - The cost-effectiveness of aspirin versus cyclooxygenase-2-selective inhibitors for colorectal carcinoma chemoprevention in healthy individualsChin Hur
Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, 101 Merrimac Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Cancer 101:189-97. 2004..Accruing evidence suggests that cyclooxygenase-2-selective inhibitors (coxibs) may be effective for colorectal carcinoma (CRC) chemoprevention but would not provide the primary cardiac benefit of aspirin... - Reorganizing the system of care surrounding laparoscopic surgery: a cost-effectiveness analysis using discrete-event simulationJames E Stahl
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Med Decis Making 24:461-71. 2004..To determine the cost-effectiveness of a proposed reorganization of surgical and anesthesia care to balance patient volume and safety... - Renal mass biopsy to guide treatment decisions for small incidental renal tumors: a cost-effectiveness analysisPari V Pandharipande
Department of Abdominal Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Radiology 256:836-46. 2010..To evaluate the effectiveness, cost, and cost-effectiveness of using renal mass biopsy to guide treatment decisions for small incidentally detected renal tumors... - Use of modeling to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of cancer screening programsAmy B Knudsen
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:203-8. 2007..Finally, we offer some suggestions for important concepts to consider when interpreting model results... - Analysis of barriers to and patients' preferences for CT colonography for colorectal cancer screening in a nonadherent urban populationWendy Ho
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 195:393-7. 2010..The aim of this study was to evaluate patients' barriers against colorectal cancer screening tests and to assess patients' preferences and cost influences for CT colonography (CTC) in a nonadherent urban subpopulation... - Breast cancer screening in BRCA1 mutation carriers: effectiveness of MR imaging--Markov Monte Carlo decision analysisJanie M Lee
Department of Radiology, Institute for Technology Assessment, Division of Hematology Oncology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 101 Merrimac St, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Radiology 246:763-71. 2008..To project intermediate and long-term clinical outcomes of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging screening for breast cancer in women with BRCA1 gene mutations... - Paraesophageal hernias: operation or observation?Nicholas Stylopoulos
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Ann Surg 236:492-500; discussion 500-1. 2002..To examine the hypothesis that elective laparoscopic repair should be routinely performed on patients with asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic paraesophageal hernias... - Cost-effectiveness of hepatic metastasectomy in patients with metastatic colorectal carcinoma: a state-transition Monte Carlo decision analysisG Scott Gazelle
Institute for Technology Assessment, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Zero Emerson Place, Suite 2H, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Ann Surg 237:544-55. 2003.... - Radiologist report turnaround time: impact of pay-for-performance measuresGiles W L Boland
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, White Bldg 270C, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 195:707-11. 2010..Expedited finalized radiologist report turnaround times (RTAT) are considered an important quality care metric in medicine. This study was performed to evaluate the impact of a radiologist pay-for-performance (PFP) program on reducing RTAT... - Probability in radiologyElkan F Halpern
DATA Group, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Zero Emerson Pl, Suite 2H, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Radiology 226:12-5. 2003..Finally, the two distributions most commonly encountered in statistical models of radiologic data are presented: the binomial and normal distributions... - Consensus guidelines in the management of branch duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm: a cost-effectiveness analysisEdward S Huang
Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Dig Dis Sci 55:852-60. 2010..The aim of this study was to determine the cost effectiveness of consensus guideline implementation in the management of BD-IPMN... - Calibration methods used in cancer simulation models and suggested reporting guidelinesNatasha K Stout
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Pharmacoeconomics 27:533-45. 2009..To aid peer-review and facilitate discussion of modelling methods, we propose a standardized Calibration Reporting Checklist for model documentation... - Cost-effectiveness of PET in the diagnosis of Alzheimer diseasePamela M McMahon
Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Zero Emerson Place, Suite 2H, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Radiology 228:515-22. 2003..CONCLUSION: PET may have high diagnostic accuracy, but adding it to the standard diagnostic regimen at AD clinics would yield limited, if any, benefits at very high costs... - Two schedules of second-line irinotecan for metastatic colon carcinomaCraig C Earle
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer 101:2533-9. 2004.... - Diagnostic imaging costs: are they driving up the costs of hospital care?Molly T Beinfeld
Institute for Technology Assessment and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 101 Merrimac St, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02114 4724, USA
Radiology 235:934-9. 2005.... - Staging MR lymphangiography of the axilla for early breast cancer: cost-effectiveness analysisPari V Pandharipande
Department of Radiology, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, 101 Merrimac St, 10th Fl, Boston, MA 02114, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 191:1308-19. 2008..The purpose of this study was to compare the cost-effectiveness of MR lymphangiography-based strategies with that of sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy alone in the axillary staging of early breast cancer... - Cost-effectiveness of using N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide to guide the diagnostic assessment and management of dyspneic patients in the emergency departmentUwe Siebert
Institute for Technology Assessment and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Cardiol 98:800-5. 2006.... - A systematic meta-analysis of the efficacy and heterogeneity of disease management programs in congestive heart failureAlexander Göhler
Institute for Technology Assessment and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114 4724, USA
J Card Fail 12:554-67. 2006.... - A cost-effectiveness analysis of a hypothetical catheter-based strategy for the detection and treatment of vulnerable coronary plaques with drug-eluting stentsJohanna L Bosch
Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Interv Cardiol 18:339-49. 2005..We utilized decision analysis to evaluate the hypothetical clinical benefits and cost-effectiveness of a catheter-based strategy... - Cost-effectiveness of uterine artery embolization and hysterectomy for uterine fibroidsMolly T Beinfeld
Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hosp, 101 Merrimac St, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Radiology 230:207-13. 2004..CONCLUSION: UAE is a cost-effective alternative to hysterectomy across a wide range of assumptions about the costs and effectiveness of the two procedures. However, the study results were sensitive to changes in quality-of-life values... - Implications and cost of pancreatic leak following distal pancreatic resectionJ Ruben Rodriguez
Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Arch Surg 141:361-5; discussion 366. 2006..We sought to provide an economic framework for potential interventions aimed at reducing its occurrence... - Evaluating the correlation between film mammography and MRI for screening women with increased breast cancer riskJanie M Lee
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Institute for Technology Assessment, 101 Merrimac Street, 10 th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Acad Radiol 16:1323-8. 2009.... - Trends in the risks and benefits to patients with cancer participating in phase 1 clinical trialsThomas G Roberts
Division of Hematology Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02114, USA
JAMA 292:2130-40. 2004..The impact of these changes on the risks and benefits to patients who participate in phase 1 cancer trials is unknown... - Hospital costs of uterine artery embolization and hysterectomy for uterine fibroid tumorsMolly T Beinfeld
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Acad Radiol 9:1300-4. 2002..CONCLUSION: Hospital costs of UAE were higher than hysterectomy for the treatment of uterine fibroids, but the hospital stays were shorter... - Abdominal and pelvic computed tomography (CT) interpretation: discrepancy rates among experienced radiologistsHani H Abujudeh
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Eur Radiol 20:1952-7. 2010..To assess the discrepancy rate for the interpretation of abdominal and pelvic computed tomography (CT) examinations among experienced radiologists... - Enhancing patient safety: standardization of CT contrast media practicesPrerna Kahlon
Department of Radiology, Partners HealthCare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Am Coll Radiol 6:562-6. 2009.... - Perceived usefulness of cardiac computed tomography as assessed by referring physicians and its effect on patient managementRon Blankstein
Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Cardiol 105:1246-53. 2010..In conclusion, of 53 different referring clinicians from different medical specialties, CTA was considered to almost always be useful; however, the effect on subsequent medical management was more variable... - Utilization of diagnostic medical imaging: comparison of radiologist referral versus same-specialty referralG Scott Gazelle
Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114 4724, USA
Radiology 245:517-22. 2007.... - Improved coagulation with saline solution pretreatment during radiofrequency tumor ablation in a canine modelMuneeb Ahmed
Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Vasc Interv Radiol 13:717-24. 2002..The complete destruction of tumors 5 cm in diameter or larger suggests that this substantial increase may be achieved for tumor ablation in clinical practice... - Detecting nonpalpable recurrent breast cancer: the role of routine mammographic screening of transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap reconstructionsJanie M Lee
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 101 Merrimac St, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Radiology 248:398-405. 2008.... - Radiofrequency ablation: Effect of pharmacologic modulation of hepatic and renal blood flow on coagulation diameter in a VX2 tumor modelClare Horkan
Laboratory for Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapy, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Vasc Interv Radiol 15:269-74. 2004..Pharmacologic modulation of tumor blood flow may provide a noninvasive way to decrease blood flow during thermally mediated ablation therapy, potentially enabling the creation of larger zones of coagulation necrosis... - Risks and benefits of infliximab for the treatment of Crohn's diseaseCorey A Siegel
Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 4:1017-24; quiz 976. 2006..These data should help guide decision making and the informed consent process when considering the use of infliximab for the treatment of Crohn's disease... - Pretreatment imaging workup for patients with intermittent claudication: a cost-effectiveness analysisKaren Visser
Program for the Assessment of Radiological Technology Program, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Vasc Interv Radiol 14:53-62. 2003..To determine the optimal imaging strategy in pretreatment workup of patients with intermittent claudication with use of noninvasive imaging modalities and intraarterial digital subtraction angiography (DSA)... - Cost-effectiveness of coronary MDCT in the triage of patients with acute chest painJoseph A Ladapo
Harvard Ph D Program in Health Policy, 14 Story St, 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 191:455-63. 2008..S. health care system. Noninvasive 64-MDCT coronary angiography may facilitate their triage, and we evaluated its cost-effectiveness... - CT screening: a trade-off of risks, benefits, and costsM G Myriam Hunink
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Eramus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Clin Invest 111:1612-9. 2003 - Cost-effectiveness targets for multi-detector row CT angiography in the work-up of patients with intermittent claudicationKaren Visser
Program for the Assessment of Radiological Technology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Dr Molewaterplein 50, Rm Ee21 40B, 3015GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Radiology 227:647-56. 2003.... - Biomedical Imaging Research Opportunities Workshop III: a white paperWilliam R Hendee
Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Ann Biomed Eng 34:188-98. 2006..This paper synthesizes these discussions into a strategy for future research directions in biomedical imaging... - Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of liver metastases in potential candidates for resection: the "test-of-time approach"Tito Livraghi
Department of Radiology, Ospedale Civile, Vimercate (MI, Italy
Cancer 97:3027-35. 2003..The approach results in complete tumor necrosis in some patients and provide an interval for others who ultimately will develop new intrahepatic and/or extrahepatic metastases to do so... - Biomedical Imaging Research Opportunities Workshop: report and recommendationsPaul L Carson
Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Kresge III, Room 3324, 200 Zina Pilcher Pl, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0553, USA
Radiology 229:328-39. 2003 - Assessment and validation of imaging methods and technologiesG Scott Gazelle
Acad Radiol 10:894-6. 2003..Specific needs and recommendations were outlined by the group. Overall, it was felt that the field has made great progress in the past several years, and that the future is promising... - Cost of an informatics-based diabetes management programBonnie B Blanchfield
Institute of Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02124, USA
Int J Technol Assess Health Care 22:249-54. 2006..This study identifies the costs to design, develop, implement, and operate an innovative informatics-based registry and disease management system (POPMAN) to manage type 2 diabetes in a primary care setting...
Research Grants
- A Lung Cancer Policy ModelG Gazelle; Fiscal Year: 2006..The model will guide imminent screening policy decisions, and, paralleling achievements of the coronary heart disease policy model, could one day evaluate treatment advances or incidence trends. ..
- Program in Cancer Outcomes Research Training (PCORT)G Gazelle; Fiscal Year: 2006..After successful completion of the training program, they will be well prepared to conduct independent, externally funded, cancer outcomes research, and to do so effectively as part of a multidisciplinary research team. ..
- Program in Cancer Outcomes Research Training (PCORT)G Gazelle; Fiscal Year: 2007..After successful completion of the training program, they will be well prepared to conduct independent, externally funded, cancer outcomes research, and to do so effectively as part of a multidisciplinary research team. ..
- Value of Imaging-Related Information TechnologyG Gazelle; Fiscal Year: 2006..The multidisciplinary research team is experienced in all aspects of Medical Imaging Informatics, financial analysis, and technology assessment, and is well qualified to conduct the proposed research. ..
- COST EFFECTIVENESS OF LIVER TUMOR ABLATION AND RESECTIONG Gazelle; Fiscal Year: 2002..The research may also identify areas for potential clinical trials providing direct comparisons of surgical and percutaneous techniques, and/or evaluations of strategies for diagnostic liver imaging. ..