Background: Gout is the most common cause of inflammatory arthritis in men aged >40 years
and is frequently encountered in clinical practice. Objective: The goal of this article was to …

A systematic review involving 50 randomized controlled trials (4,863 patients) published since
1980 was undertaken with the objective of assessing efficacy and safety of low back pain (…

Background: An increasing number of health‐care systems, both public and private, such as
managed‐care organizations, are adopting results from cost‐effectiveness (CE) analysis as …

OBJECTIVE: To make health care researchers, clinicians, and managers who are relatively
new to outcomes research using administrative databases more aware of issues to consider …

… Sheldon X Kong4, … Obesity diagnosis was based on ICD-9 code 278.0x and V-codes V85.3x
and V85.4x. … In all three obesity classes, only a minority had a V85.x code for obesity class. …

Objective: Insomnia is a prevalent sleep complaint which has been reported to be greatly
associated with reduced health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) and increased healthcare …

OBJECTIVE Advances in health measurement have led to the application of Rasch Item
Response Theory (IRT) analysis (Rasch analysis) to evaluate instruments measuring health …

Purpose To compare the prevalence of diabetes-related complications and comorbidities,
clinical characteristics, glycemic control, and treatment patterns in patients with type 2 …

Importance Albuminuria testing is crucial for guiding evidence-based treatments to mitigate
chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression and cardiovascular morbidity, but it is widely …

Despite clinical practice guidelines that recommend frequent monitoring of HbA1c (every 3
months) and aggressive escalation of antihyperglycemic therapies until glycemic targets are …