OBJECTIVE: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent
mental disorders in children in the United States and often persists into adulthood with …

Background— Clinical prediction models (CPMs) estimate the probability of clinical outcomes
and hold the potential to improve decision making and individualize care. For patients with …

Motivation: The American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) guidelines
advise use of enteral nutrition (EN) for critically ill hospital patients requiring nutritional support, …

Objectives To understand how people value information from diagnostic technologies, we
reviewed and analyzed published willingness-to-pay (WTP) studies on the topic. Methods We …

Objectives: We examined the cost–effectiveness of treating poorly controlled, severe, persistent
asthma patients with bronchial thermoplasty (BT), a novel technology that uses thermal …

The Tufts Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) Registry (www.cearegistry.org) is a publicly
available comprehensive database of cost-utility analyses of health interventions published in …

We examined Medicare national coverage determinations for medical interventions to
determine whether or not they have become more restrictive over time. National coverage …

Background: Geriatric acutely ill patients may frequently have insufficient nutrition intake,
leading to malnutrition and increased susceptibility to additional morbidity. This compromised …

Context Medicare currently pays for 23 preventive services in its benefits package, the majority
of which were added since 2005. In the past decade, the program has transformed from …

Background and Aims The spread of duodenoscope-related infections has led to the
recognition that reprocessing of duodenoscopes using high-level disinfection (HLD), if done …