George Luta

TL;DR: The results of this exploratory study suggest that several subgroups of patients, specifically those with a low baseline intake of weak and strong analgesics, and more pronounced clinical signs of central sensitization, may gain most clinical benefit from specialized rehabilitation when the outcome of interest is improvement in observed activity of daily living ability.

TL;DR: Delivering intensive telephone counseling and nicotine replacement with lung screening is an effective strategy to increase short-term smoking cessation and methods to maintain short- term effects are needed.

TL;DR: Confidence intervals for both ICER and INB are constructed using the concept of a generalized pivotal quantity, which can be derived for various combinations of normal, lognormal, and other skewed distributions for costs and effectiveness.

TL;DR: PosNeg NMF applied to the concatenated data, which is called PosNegNMF, offers the advantages of the original NMF approach, while giving equal weight to large and small values.

TL;DR: The decision aids amplified the impact of men’s baseline attitudes about limitations of screening: Compared to the usual care arm, men in both decision aid arms were less likely to be screened when they perceived more limitations of screenings.