Peter Lindgren

TL;DR: Guidelines and Expert Consensus documents aim to present management and recommendations based on all of the relevant evidence on a particular subject in order to help physicians to select the best possible management strategies for the individual patient, suffering from a specific condition, taking into account not only the impact on outcome, but also the risk benefit ratio of a particular diagnostic or therapeutic procedure.

TL;DR: Overall resource consumption, work capacity and quality of life of patients with multiple sclerosis in nine European countries was assessed, and Informal care use was highly correlated with disease severity, but was further influenced by healthcare systems and family structure.

TL;DR: Demographics and smoking history were more important than gender per se in sustained smoking cessation in the Lung Health Study and programs tailoring smoking cessation by gender need to include coping skills for problems associated with less education and social support and for improving persistence with quit attempts.

TL;DR: Estimates of the economic burden posed by AF are critical in light of the increasing importance of AF as a public health problem, and accounting for more than 70% of total annual costs in all five countries.

TL;DR: All types of costs increased with increasing disability, while utilities decreased, a cross-sectional, “bottom-up” observational study of resource use, costs, and quality of life in patients with multiple sclerosis in Germany.