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A Focus on Simulation in Medical Informatics

James G. Anderson • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (2002)

This special issue of JAMIA addresses simulation, a methodology that holds great promise for the advancement of information technology in health care. Simulation has been termed a third domain, complementing both natural language and mathem...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1197/jamia.m1167 PMC: 346642

Cost effectiveness of vildagliptin versus glimepiride as add-on treatment to metformin for the treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2 patients in Greece

Hara Kousoulakou, Magdalini Hatzikou, Varvara Baroutsou, John Yfantopoulos • Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (2017)

Abstract Objectives This study was designed to assess the cost-effectiveness of vildagliptin versus glimepiride as add-on to metformin in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients in the Greek healthcare setting. Methods A ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12962-017-0082-7

Cost effective reproduction number based strategies for reducing deaths from COVID-19

Christopher Thron, Vianney Mbazumutima, Luis V. Tamayo, Léonard Todjihounde • Journal of Mathematics in Industry (2021)

Abstract In epidemiology, the effective reproduction number R e $R_{e}$ is used to characterize the growth rate of an epidemic outbreak. If R e > 1 $R_{e} >1$ , the epidemic worsens, and if R e < 1 $R_{e}< 1$ , then it subsides and eventual...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13362-021-00107-6

The Balanced Opioid Initiative: protocol for a clustered, sequential, multiple-assignment randomized trial to construct an adaptive implementation strategy to improve guideline-concordant opioid prescribing in primary care

Andrew Quanbeck, Daniel Almirall, Nora Jacobson, Randall T. Brown et al. • Implementation Science (2020)

Abstract Background Rates of opioid prescribing tripled in the USA between 1999 and 2015 and were associated with significant increases in opioid misuse and overdose death. Roughly half of all opioids are prescribed in primary care. Althoug...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13012-020-00990-4

Renewable Energy Resources

John Twidell, Tony Weir • Routledge eBooks (2015)

Renewable Energy Resources is a numerate and quantitative text covering the full range of renewable energy technologies and their implementation worldwide. Energy supplies from renewables (such as from biofuels, solar heat, photovoltaics, w...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315766416

Nanotechnology and medicine

Dwaine F. Emerich, Christopher G. Thanos • Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy (2003)

Nanotechnology, or systems/device manufacture at the molecular level, is a multidisciplinary scientific field undergoing explosive development. The genesis of nanotechnology can be traced to the promise of revolutionary advances across medi...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1517/14712598.3.4.655