Disease relevance of National Health Programs

• A population study to define the incidence and survival of multiple myeloma in a National Health Service Region in UK [1].
• Cost utility and budget impact of third-generation aromatase inhibitors for advanced breast cancer: a literature-based model analysis of costs in the Italian National Health Service [2].
• BACKGROUND AND AIMS: This study estimated the economic impact of using a proprietary formulation of 0.2% nitroglycerin (GTN) ointment (Rectogesic) compared with lateral internal sphincterotomy in the treatment of a chronic anal fissure in the United Kingdom (UK), from the perspective of the National Health Service (NHS) [3].
• OBJECTIVE: To examine the pattern of use of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing in a UK region, where National Health Service policy does not recommend screening for prostate cancer [4].
• The intervention aims to address a growing problem in the National Health Service (NHS), that is, high admission rates of patients with exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) [5].

Psychiatry related information on National Health Programs

• OBJECTIVE: To estimate the annual direct cost of managing erectile dysfunction (ED) to the UK National Health Service (NHS) and to examine the impact of the introduction of sildenafil in 1998 and Schedule 11 restrictions in 1999 [6].

High impact information on National Health Programs

• Doctors in the NHS. National Health Service [7].
• METHOD: General practice record review at a median interval of 26 months followed by retrieval of details of all deaths within four years using the UK National Health Service Central Registers in 17 936 patients prescribed omeprazole in 1993-1995 [8].
• National health insurance. A view from Great Britain [9].
• We assessed the cost-effectiveness of adjuvant capecitabine from payer (UK National Health Service (NHS)) and societal perspectives [10].
• Estimates of the direct costs of care of epilepsy were based on the use of diagnostic examinations, laboratory tests, specialist consultations, hospital admissions, day-hospital days, and drugs, taking the Italian National Health Service perspective [11].

Chemical compound and disease context of National Health Programs

• The economic impact of using prophylactic clodronate as an adjunct to chemotherapy in the management of multiple myeloma for the first 4 years following diagnosis was established from the perspective of the National Health Service (NHS) [12].

Biological context of National Health Programs

• SETTING--Four purchaser and provider pairings in the former Northern Region of the National Health Service (NHS) in England. SUBJECTS--Chief executives, contracts managers, quality and audit leaders, directors of public health, consultants, general practitioners, audit support staff, and practice managers (total 42) [13].
• The analysis was reported from the perspective of the Italian National Health Service. RESULTS: In patients infected with HCV genotype 1, peginterferon alpha-2a plus ribavirin increased life-years (LYs) by 0.78 years and QALYs by 0.67 years, compared with interferon alpha-2b and ribavirin [14].
• As part of the local National Health Service trust MRSA infection control strategy, patients who have been in a healthcare institution in the last year are routinely sampled and tested for MRSA colonization at the time of hospital admission [15].
• Ten thousand National Health Service prescriptions for drugs used in rheumatology, written by 300 general medical practitioners within one Area Health Authority area during one month were analysed [16].
• The National Health Service supplies two basic grades of polyurethane foam for wheelchair cushions and this study investigated the effect of water content on their compressive load carrying capacity [17].

Anatomical context of National Health Programs

• The current supply of hGH, which is prepared from pituitary glands collected by pathologists in the National Health Service, is just enough to meet demand, but research conducted on behalf of the Working Party suggests that hGH deficiency is more common than has been thought and that the prevalence may be as high as one in 10 000 [18].

Associations of National Health Programs with chemical compounds

• Health-care resource utilization and the costs of these resources were compared from the perspective of the UK National Health Service using data obtained in a 6-month clinical trial of oral valdecoxib 20 mg once daily and diclofenac 75 mg twice daily for the symptomatic treatment of rheumatoid arthritis [19].
• We compared registration of haematological malignancies between 1994 and 1996 by haematologists in 14 National Health Service Trusts in the Eastern part of the South Thames Region with data for the same area recorded by the Thames Cancer Registry (TCR) [20].
• SETTING: Procedures were performed at the San Borja-Arriarán Hospital, National Health Service, and Institute of Maternal and Child Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile. PATIENTS: Twelve patients aged 30 to 40 years requesting surgical sterilization in our institution [21].
• Almost all GPs accepted that NRT (95%) and bupropion (97%) should be reimbursable on National Health Service (NHS) prescription [22].
• AIMS: To compare National Health Service (NHS) and private practice in prescribing methadone to opiate addicts [23].

Gene context of National Health Programs

• NHS at 50. An American view. National Health Service [24].
• Born in Paris of Swiss parents, he was professor in Leipzig, Germany, before coming to the United States in 1932 as professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Once in America. Sigerist became deeply involved in medical politics and the campaign for national health insurance [25].
• The National Health Service is poised to offer at least one cycle of IVF treatment to couples free of charge in the UK, provided that certain clinical criteria are met [26].
• SETTING: The Oxford Region of the National Health Service, England. SUBJECTS: A cohort comprising all people in the database with MS, and comparison cohorts of people with other diseases [27].
• In cost-minimisation analyses of these studies from the perspectives of the national health services of five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK), Gem/Cis was associated with lower average treatment-related costs than Vin/Cis, Pac/Cis, and Pac/Carbo, and similar or lower costs than Doc/Cis [28].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of National Health Programs

• SETTING: Procedures were performed at the Institute of Maternal and Child Research, School of Medicine, University of Chile and San Borja-Arriarán Clinical Hospital, National Health Service, Santiago, Chile. PATIENT(S): Eight patients (30-38 years) undergoing surgical sterilization or hysterectomy for benign gynecologic conditions [29].
• The reasons are largely historical and relate to the structure and function of the National Health Service. This history of minor surgery describes its common occurrence before the NHS, its virtual disappearance after the NHS came about, and later revival by a few enthusiasts [30].
• The modified T/PPS was based on those complicated appendectomy cases with secondary diagnosis or second operation where a total fee over 37,500 New Taiwan (NT) dollars was paid by National Health Insurance Bureau (NHIB) according to the real cost [31].
• Data from the Oxford Region were used to study trends in hospital admission rates and demographic profiles of hospital care in the National Health Service in oral and maxillofacial surgery [32].
• Study quality was assessed using predefined criteria based on parameters developed with the US Preventive Services Task Force and the UK National Health Services Centre. DATA SYNTHESIS: A total of 32 trials including 4 head-to-head comparisons met inclusion criteria; 14 trials met criteria for meta-analysis [33].

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