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… Levy E, Gabriel S, Dinet J. The comparative medical costs of atherothrombotic disease in …

Objectives The objective of the study is to present the Grading of Recommendations
Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) conceptual approach to the assessment of …

Emerging minimally invasive procedures for the treatment of patients with benign prostatic
obstruction may have advantages over transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). We …

Background The placement of drug-eluting stents decreases the frequency of repeat
revascularization procedures in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in …

Objective: To estimate the financial burden of schizophrenia in Canada in 2004. Methods: A
prevalence-based cost-of-illness (COI) approach was used. The primary sources of …

Background: Bariatric surgery has been shown to significantly reduce cardiovascular risk
factors. However, whether surgery can reduce major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), …

To update the 1993 burden of illness of osteoporosis in Canada, administrative and community
data were used to calculate the 2010 costs of osteoporosis at $2.3 billion in Canada or …

We estimate the current burden of illness of osteoporosis in Canada is double ($4.6 billion)
our previous estimates ($2.3 billion) due to improved data capture of the multiple encounters …

Background: Health utility data often show an apparent truncation effect, where a proportion
of individuals achieve the upper bound of 1. The Tobit model and censored least absolute …

Objective Our aim was to cross-culturally validate Chinese Western Ontario and McMaster
Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) scheduled …